Example sentences of "in recent years it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predominantly a coastal bird , where it can usually been seen in large flocks from now until spring , in recent years it has spread inland to breed . |
| 2 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 3 | In recent years it has added to the services it provides for the retired to include financial services , retirement homes and magazine publishing . |
| 4 | In recent years it has been particularly successful in treating respiratory and urinary tract infections , gastrointestinal infections , infections of the skin and skin structures , bone and joint infections and sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 5 | In recent years it has become fashionable to say that Modi only suffered from poverty because of his drinking and drug-taking . |
| 6 | In recent years it has been modified to reduce labour costs and increase profits through the use of machinery , fertilizers , and chemicals . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In recent years it has become more acceptable to distinguish between different types of learning . |
| 9 | In recent years it has been the guitar that has been changing most rapidly . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 13 | As has been pointed out , however , In recent years it has been impossible to tell where natural justice stops and fairness begins . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In recent years it has begun to experience high levels of adult and youth unemployment . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In recent years it has been realized that many non-fluid systems can exhibit behaviour which shares important characteristics with turbulent motion . |
| 29 | In recent years it has paid particular attention to M0 , M4 and M5 . |
| 30 | In recent years it has become the practice in leases granted for more than five years or so to contain some machinery for enabling the rent to be reviewed , either continuously or at periodic intervals . |