Example sentences of "in recent [noun pl] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of great significance that most of the NICs are presently or have been in recent times one-party states , not necessarily totalitarian in the classic sense , but certainly lacking in most of the genuinely pluralistic institutions that characterize advanced industrial societies . |
| 2 | In recent months bilateral relations had also been concerned with the withdrawal , due to be completed by December 1994 , of more than 370,000 Soviet troops from eastern Germany . |
| 3 | That batch , the most intriguing of all , has included in recent months five members of the Grand Slam squad — Leonard , who is recovering well from a neck operation but must rest , Morris , Pears , Rodber and Heslop . |
| 4 | There are many other hon. Members present from the north-east , who have struggled down on British Rail to participate in this debate because we have seen in recent months horrifying scenes on our televisions . |
| 5 | In recent months many software vendors which used to concentrate on producing for the Commodore , Amiga and Atari have started to supply versions for the IMB-PC and its clones as well . |
| 6 | In recent months several TH contributors have treated us to a wealth of extremely useful information , advice and tips on how to achieve success with a detector when searching the country 's transport routes . |
| 7 | In recent years that word ‘ fibre ’ has loomed large in our lives . |
| 8 | Locomotives and the routes themselves have always attracted authors in profusion but in recent years that trend has been punctuated by some useful and illuminating titles on passenger and freight vehicles . |
| 9 | In recent years that change has clearly accelerated ; indeed , the technological threat has made it even more important to plan ahead and to plan for radical change . |
| 10 | Although in recent years total government capital spending has been of the order of £20 billion per annum , Brown and Jackson ( 1983 , p. 138 ) point out that this represents a real reduction of approximately one half over the past 20 years . |
| 11 | In recent years serious damage to the historic interiors of pubs has resulted from the creation of the open-plan which now seem to be pubs ' standard internal layout . |
| 12 | In recent years political leaders in three of the countries considered in this book , Kenya , Nigeria and Tanzania have very suddenly announced fee-free , and in the last two cases , ‘ universal ’ primary education . |
| 13 | In recent years Applied Linguistics at Edinburgh has been closely involved in the organisation of international seminars and conferences . |
| 14 | In recent years Western socialists have formulated wide-ranging proposals for socialist economic organization in which markets play a key role . |
| 15 | Soviet cultural initiatives have traditionally been focused on Mexico , but in recent years Soviet musicians and dancers have toured in other parts of Latin America , often with spectacular success . |
| 16 | In recent years first electrons , and now sound waves , have become tools of the microscopists ' trade that were unimagined in van Leewenhoek 's day . |
| 17 | In recent years new problems have arisen from the mixing of indigenous polar cultures with those from outside , introducing new ecological demands and imposing new stresses on people and environments ill-equipped to cope with them . |
| 18 | Defamation , blasphemy and sedition have been with us for centuries , but in recent years new rods have been fashioned and old ones polished for editorial backs : breach of confidence , contempt of court , official secrecy , " D " notices , incitement to disaffection , prevention of terrorism , copyright — the grounds for censorship are legion . |
| 19 | In recent years other radio astronomers in Cambridge and New Mexico have pinned down the positions of previously unidentified galaxies with increasing accuracy . |
| 20 | In recent years two rugby players and a footballer developed tetanus from cuts . |
| 21 | In the past , sea salt has been the only recognized medication for such infections , but in recent years great strides have been made in our understanding of the various fungal infections and cures based upon methylene blue and malachite green are readily available and work simply and quickly . |
| 22 | However this reflects more the wishes of the academics than their market and — in recent years great pressure has been brought to bear to remove this compartmentalisation . |
| 23 | In recent years many authorship attribution problems , in a variety of languages , have been tackled , with varying degrees of success , by stylometric methods . |
| 24 | In recent years many governments have mounted vigorous campaigns against drinking and driving . |
| 25 | In recent years many economists have argued that there is another important indirect mechanism through which changes in money supply affect aggregate demand . |
| 26 | In recent years external users of accounting information have required from firms their internal management accounting information . |
| 27 | It has meant that in Mexico , for instance , although the proportion of illiterates nationally has decreased every decade , in recent years absolute numbers have been increasing . |
| 28 | That is still not fully understood , but in recent years tiny particles of magnetic material have been discovered both in their skulls and their neck muscles . |
| 29 | We normally aim and have achieved very successfully in recent years real price increases above inflation . |
| 30 | Religion unites or divides , and convictions still run very deep , but in recent years religious differences do n't seem to have figured large in British life , except of course in Northern Ireland , and the disputes and controversies associated with the Reformation have largely been forgotten . |