Example sentences of "in [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 61 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 62 | In recent years it has become fashionable to say that Modi only suffered from poverty because of his drinking and drug-taking . |
| 63 | In recent years it has been modified to reduce labour costs and increase profits through the use of machinery , fertilizers , and chemicals . |
| 64 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
| 65 | Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements . |
| 66 | In recent years it has become more acceptable to distinguish between different types of learning . |
| 67 | In recent years it has been the guitar that has been changing most rapidly . |
| 68 | It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) . |
| 69 | This is a landmark visible for miles along the coast ; indeed there was a protest from seafarers when in recent years it was feared the spire might need to be dismantled . |
| 70 | In recent years it has been found that a high proportion of patients suffering from piles require no further treatment once they have switched to a high-fibre diet and as a result pass soft stools that can be evacuated with minimal straining . |
| 71 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 72 | If Japan 's lending had continued to expand at the same pace as in recent years it would have overtaken Britain in 1992 . |
| 73 | As has been pointed out , however , In recent years it has been impossible to tell where natural justice stops and fairness begins . |
| 74 | It was traditionally associated with Persia and the southern Caucasus , but in recent years it has been incorporated into the repertoire of weaving groups in other rug-making countries . |
| 75 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 76 | In recent years it has moved far more towards conceptualization in terms of ‘ theory ’ and ‘ practice ’ , to the extent that in some areas ( e.g. Iocational studies , certain parts of geomorphology ) the theory dominates the practice . |
| 77 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
| 78 | In recent years it has been generally held that the backwash down the beach contributes to the breaking of the next wave , becomes involved in it and is returned with the swash , so that there is no continuous undertow transferring water out beyond the breaker zone . |
| 79 | In recent years it has become common , when the whole of the stated authorised share capital is not intended to be issued initially , to designate the unissued shares as ‘ unclassified shares . ’ |
| 80 | This standard was developed with commercial accounts in mind and it confirms the view that depreciation is a matter of allocation , not of valuation ; though in recent years it has become acceptable to allocate revalued amounts . |
| 81 | Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation . |
| 82 | In recent years it has begun to experience high levels of adult and youth unemployment . |
| 83 | In recent years it has been widely suggested that our prisons are in a ‘ state of crisis ’ , a situation made worse by inadequate means for monitoring what the prisons are doing , and a lack of formal safeguards against bad practices . |
| 84 | In recent years it has been Ian Rush who has been the scourge of Everton but this time he turned provider to send the Israeli international through a dumbfounded Everton defence . |
| 85 | In recent years it has become clear that certain tumour derived cell lines can be associated with the production of gut peptides , and that some of these peptides are mitogenic to the same cells . |
| 86 | In recent years it has been possible to study the mechanisms involved in the regulation postprandial gall bladder motility in detail because of the development of sensitive and specific radioimmunoassays for measurement of CCK and the availability of ultrasonography and cholescintigraphy as non-invasive methods to measure human gall bladder motility . |
| 87 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 88 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 89 | In recent years it has been realized that many non-fluid systems can exhibit behaviour which shares important characteristics with turbulent motion . |
| 90 | In recent years it has paid particular attention to M0 , M4 and M5 . |