Example sentences of "in [adv] recent [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 In more recent times it was prescribed as Belladonnae herba ( BPC 1968 ) which was the dried leaves or aerial parts of the plant which contained 0.4–1 per cent of the drug .
2 In more recent times it was important for over a century for one reason : it was supported by Sir Isaac Newton .
3 The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry .
4 In more recent years he has shown how he despises the movie industry by making only rare fleeting appearances .
5 This was , admittedly , the rather indeterminate ‘ walking speed ’ , though in more recent years it has been followed by widespread adoption of 30 km/h limits , especially in Germany .
6 It is normally defined as the intra-urban movement of population from the inner to the outer parts of the same urban region , but in more recent years it has become inextricably bound up with the patterns of inter-urban redistribution associated with the urban-rural shift .
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