Example sentences of "in recent years [conj] [be] " in BNC.

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1 valium is not an accepted treatment for depression and that we have excellent anti-depressant drugs , particularly ones that have come just in recent years that are very effective for depression , and I think bringing a great deal of benefit to depressed people .
2 However , they have become increasingly collectable in recent years and are no longer as inexpensive as they were ( See pl.23 ) .
3 IRCs as a mechanism for collaboration have become increasingly important in recent years and are likely to remain so .
4 Pressure for the conversion or redevelopment of historic houses and estates in financial difficulties has grown in recent years and is causing concern to those wishing to preserve the traditional countryside .
5 A marked change in status has occurred in recent years and is now a regular winter visitor , although as recently as 1953 it was rarer than Whooper Swan .
6 The Old Mill , at the west end of the village , was still operative until the early years of the Second World War , and the New Mill at the east end , which lost its sails in a gale so severe that parts of them were found in the next village , has been restored in recent years and is now a very attractive dwelling .
7 The four short-listed artists are Grenville Davey , Damien Hirst , David Tremlett and Alison Wilding , each of whom has produced an impressive body of work in recent years and is beginning to enjoy international recognition , but none of whom will be familiar to a wider audience .
8 Toye has been in the Armagh county squad in recent years and is a proven forward capable of turning the tide in his team 's favour .
9 The subject , Home Economics , has changed considerably in recent years and is constantly evolving to take account of social change and developments in technology .
10 Mr Noel Stock , who speaks as one who had Pound 's confidence in recent years and was in daily contact with him , explains that this passage derives from a hint thrown out by Jessie L. Weston in her from Ritual to Romance , to the effect that the charges of heresy brought against the Templars were not wholly unfounded , since some of the practices of the Eleusinian mystery-cults from the pagan Near East survived in the heart of Christendom in the rituals of the Templars , a survival to be traced in literature in the stories and poems about the quest of the holy grail .
11 Bilateral trade between the two had grown in recent years and was expected to reach $3,200 million in 1990 and $3,500 million in 1991 .
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