Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] recent years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hot alpine summers of recent years have made these sort of conditions all too prevalent , particularly early in the season when there are masses of spring snow ready to melt . |
| 2 | The rethinking of culture in the light of theoretical advances and political experience over recent years undermines the claims and comforts of community understood in terms of a normative identity and tradition , whether that of nation , religion , ethnicity or ‘ the black experience ’ . |
| 3 | The low birthrate of recent years means that , by the end of the decade , much of the world 's work will be done by women . |
| 4 | ( It was also pointed out to me , by José-Luis Martinez-Dueñas , that space stations are actually now part of our real world , and so may have diminished as perceived science fictional objects in recent years . ) |
| 5 | There was certainly ‘ no significant Soviet geopolitical momentum in recent years ’ . |
| 6 | The main worry is that modular schemes might undo the progress towards an integrated approach to first degree studies which has been a feature of some professional subjects in recent years , notably in post-Finniston engineering courses . |
| 7 | The public conflicts of recent years have involved confrontations between different political ideologies : the resistance from the Clay Cross Urban District to the Conservative Housing Finance Act ; the rejection by Merthyr County Borough of the Conservatives ' withdrawal of free milk for schoolchildren ; the resistance of a number of Conservative education authorities to the Labour commitment to the introduction of comprehensive secondary education ; the resistance of Labour local authorities to the Conservative government 's legislation on the sale of council houses ; and the forms of creative accounting developed in the mid-1980s by some local authorities to evade expenditure restraints . |
| 8 | The independent Phoenix Cinema in Oxford is set to play to packed houses over the next few weeks with a film that 's bound to be listed among the greatest successes of British Cinema in recent years . |
| 9 | For them , the use of the term ‘ British ’ as a synonym for ‘ English ’ is an insult , a fact that English Conservatives sometimes overlook : introducing the poll tax a year early in Scotland was probably the worst blow to British unity in recent years , for it made the Scots feel they were being treated like second-class citizens . |
| 10 | He thought the British were angered by the extent to which the Shah had criticized British sloth in recent years . |
| 11 | One of the major areas of historical research in recent years involving scholars from several countries has been the rise and decline of slavery in the Americas and its impact on the growth of the industrial societies bordering the north Atlantic . |
| 12 | With indirect fuel injection , the well-proven power unit has been a driving force in the growing popularity of diesel amongst British drivers over recent years . |
| 13 | Changes in sexual law of recent years give evidence of a gradual movement towards tolerance and understanding , and without doubt this has been the true state of affairs in the United Kingdom during the present generation . |
| 14 | In the light of these considerations it is perhaps not surprising that new social divisions and conflicts have arisen in the English village in recent years , nor that the local population has preferred to turn in upon itself in the face of these changes . |
| 15 | Detailed work in recent years has given us new insights into how nineteenth-century towns developed . |
| 16 | The picture is , however , not simple , and there is some evidence that the backgrounds of top decision makers have changed to embrace a slightly wider range of social origins in recent years . |
| 17 | Several policies have been introduced into the public sector in recent years whose chief purpose is to obtain better ‘ value for money ’ . |
| 18 | Such proposals are naturally a major source of controversy between the political parties but some local authorities have undoubtedly been looking at charges with a fresh eye in recent years . |
| 19 | Keating described the budget as a consolidation of the government 's policy which was succeeding in " slowing the economy without impairing longer-term growth prospects or jeopardizing the economic and social advances of recent years " . |
| 20 | But most authorities have been closing down their residential establishments in recent years . |
| 21 | One of the most fascinating scientific experiments of recent years showed that when people ate meals at a rapid rate they became hungry again more quickly than when they ate precisely the same size of meal at a slower rate . |
| 22 | A The only significant change in Premium Bonds in recent years was four years ago when total prize money was reduced from 7 per cent of the value of all Bonds taking part to 6.5 . |
| 23 | The most exciting development in recent years has been the illuminated fountain . |
| 24 | High inflation in recent years has shown that a good pension often becomes a desirable part of employment . |
| 25 | However , the growing number of students with instrumental proficiency in recent years has meant an increasing concentration on orchestral work . |
| 26 | The idea of consumerism has experienced an important dialectical inversion in recent years . |
| 27 | Electronics has been the fastest growing sector of the Scottish economy in recent years , but it is dominated by externally-controlled multi-nationals . |
| 28 | With the emergence of chronic unemployment in the British economy in recent years , there has been growing interest in the performance of the interwar economy , when unemployment remained persistently high . |
| 29 | Support for these other levels of reality has come from biologist , Rupert Sheldrake , whose ‘ Hypothesis of Formative Causation ’ has caused great controversy in scientific circles of recent years . |
| 30 | Schmitter concludes : What corporatism means for state and society has been the subject of an extended debate in recent years . |