Example sentences of "have in recent years [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sandinistas recognise that perestroika will bring changes in their relationship with Moscow , which has in recent years been worth around £625m annually , according to European diplomats . |
| 2 | It has been traditionally hunted for food and as a source of medicinal oil , and has in recent years been accidentally captured in fishing nets . |
| 3 | Since these forms of compulsion are not directly relevant for present purposes , it is unnecessary to elaborate them ; but I think it pertinent to observe that the concept of duress has in recent years been expanded to embrace economic duress . |
| 4 | But there has in recent years been a more influential convergence , both in studies of art and in communications studies , around the concept of ‘ forms ’ . |
| 5 | For example , in the old 16+ system , despite a gradual improvement in girls ' achievements ( see , for example , the table below ) , each year more boys than girls were entered for O level mathematics , and of those who entered , a higher proportion of boys than girls obtained grade A. At CSE , the entry ( and pass ) rate of girls has in recent years been higher than that of boys — but boys have obtained the most grade I passes . |
| 6 | Intra-market business is large and , as is shown by Table 3.3 , has in recent years been averaging over £2 billion per business day . |
| 7 | She has in recent years been able to devote more time to dressmaking and tailoring — arts which she has perfected to professional standards . |
| 8 | However , the costs appearing in the books of the newly nationalised industry were considerably below these , largely because , while capital charges normally formed a large proportion of the total costs of electricity supply , the industry had in recent years been prevented from investing heavily and most of its inherited equipment stood in the books at prewar values . |
| 9 | He was loyal to the old Left , was Alan , unlike their turncoat father who had in recent years been wooed by , and had , it seemed , espoused , the radical Right . |
| 10 | " Hanslick and others " had indeed found it difficult to place Wagner 's achievements , and furthermore Wagner 's own explicit interpretation of his ideal had in recent years been shifting in an enigmatic way that impelled his articulate young admirer to offer his own clarification : here was one of those " aesthetic problems " which had been occupying his mind for some time . |
| 11 | Falcone , 53 , himself a Sicilian , had in recent years been a leading figure in the Italian state 's campaign against the criminal activities of the Sicilian Mafia . |
| 12 | Yet while there has been a concerted worldwide effort to save the larger cetaceans from agonising death by human hands , the small cetaceans have in recent years been dying in record numbers . |
| 13 | Although the British profession has not adopted a multi-media outlook with the celerity that many would wish , there are plenty of examples of public libraries with visual and aural collections , and the counties of Wiltshire , Somerset and Leicestershire have in recent years been offering significant audio-visual services to teachers and schools . |