Example sentences of "in recent years [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example The Sunday Times has asserted that , ‘ In recent years we 've experienced a new , aggressive , liberated criminality in women ’ ( 30 March , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | Now , er , before I hand over to Frank er , a word about the dividend er , in recent years we 've paid an interim dividend which was half the total of the previous year 's dividends and so , er , had a built-in increase . |
| 3 | And in the 70s , we were again working in Appalachia ; and in recent years we have expanded our program to again include the entire south . ’ |
| 4 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
| 5 | In recent years we have seen great efforts being made at all levels to ensure that children learn effectively . |
| 6 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , in recent years we have been moving , albeit slowly and hesitantly , towards the view that the primary school should regard itself as one element in a united national service to children . |
| 8 | In recent years we have learned much about the internal anatomy of cephalapsids and galeaspids which had a bony skeleton surrounding the brain and gills . |
| 9 | In recent years we have seen the most thorough pursuit ever carried out to find partners in responsibility for the ailments to which we are subject . |
| 10 | In recent years we have devoted substantial resources to reorganising our education systems in the UK and we see this continuing . |
| 11 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 12 | My bill falls into two parts , one which deals with the need for a full franchise it is sometimes mistakenly believed that we already have a full franchise in this country , but whereas legislation was passed in the past in order to extend the franchise , in recent years we have let matters slip considerably on the methods that are used for registration and no longer can we claim to have that full franchise . |
| 13 | In recent years we have seen a tremendous growth in interest and the range of activities , ’ said Mr Deighton , whose wife Maura was also a founder . |
| 14 | In recent years they 've all got the real ale kick and always have too many pumps , which means that the throughput is slow and four out of five beers go off before they 're half sold . |
| 15 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
| 16 | In recent years they have fallen back . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 18 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 19 | In recent years they have been streamlined to the point where they are totally identical , except for the name and the cover . |
| 20 | In recent years they have used commercial strategy consultants to undertake this work on behalf of their clients . |
| 21 | In recent years she has often taken to using the catalogue just for herself , looking on the agency commission as a personal discount . |
| 22 | In recent years he had often carried cameras with any number of attachments . |
| 23 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
| 24 | In recent years he had stayed only a day or two , until , overcome with boredom , he had returned home to watch Mrs Thatcher 's Leader 's speech on the telly . |
| 25 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 26 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 27 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 28 | In recent years he has been closely associated with Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts Ltd in Bond Street where his knowledge and connoisseurship are greatly valued and he is still to be found on weekdays in the gallery 's offices . |
| 29 | In recent years he has become increasingly involved in the conservation of neotropical mammals , and now has a deep involvement in research studies in Peru and Ecuador of the mountain tapir , ocelot and giant otter . |
| 30 | In recent years he has coached many leading Midlands runners , including three times Olympian Lorraine Baker . |