Example sentences of "in recent years [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Several problems with the control of asbestos on the North tees Works in recent years had highlighted the need to take action . |
2 | Government changes to the tax system in recent years had allowed the company to come up with a solution which would make shares which had been trading at less than £3 last month to £5 , Mr Ritblat said . |
3 | The Federal Cartel Office had on April 20 , 1989 , objected to the proposed takeover on the grounds that it would lead to market domination in the arms , aerospace and truck industries by Daimler-Benz , which in recent years had taken over another aerospace company , Dornier , the electrical concern AEG and the engineering company MTU . |
4 | Items can be found on every continent and in recent years have become very popular again , especially as collectors pieces . |
5 | Internal party reforms in recent years have ensured that the delegates to American party conventions are more representative of the population as a whole , with increased numbers of young people , ethnic minorities and women participating . |
6 | Alyssum flourishes , whatever the weather , and breeding advances in recent years have made this plant a lot more versatile . |
7 | Medical advances in recent years have made male and female sterilisation simpler and more acceptable to many people . |
8 | Tranmere Rovers .... 3 Leyton Orient ...... 0 TRANMERE ROVERS , who in recent years have survived a threat of extinction as well as only just preserving League membership , reinforced their position as Third Division leaders by overcoming Leyton Orient , thereby stretching the margin to four points . |
9 | Many linguists in recent years have questioned the early assumptions of the discipline with regard to literacy and their work now serves to undermine rather than to support those arguments regarding literacy that I have referred to as the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
10 | As the police in both countries in recent years have relied increasingly on notions of professionalism to defend themselves against political attack , so police organizations have asserted themselves more publicly to promote not only their own organization , but also particular policies regarding law and order which they deem to be necessary . |
11 | On the one hand there have been reports suggesting that the vaccine can cause brain damage , albeit in a tiny minority of children and , on the other , the whooping cough epidemics in recent years have re-awakened fears of the damage the disease itself can inflict . |
12 | Moneylenders have abounded in every society , and in recent years have achieved great importance in developed economies because of the stimulus that their services have given to trade . |
13 | Initiatives in under-fives and special needs in recent years have stemmed in part from these recommendations , some of which , of course , formed the basis of the 1981 Education Act . |
14 | Advances in molecular biology in recent years have served to emphasize the possible relationships between homoeopathy , immunology and genetics . |
15 | A mountain bike is the perfect touring vehicle for Nepal 's roads , which in recent years have deteriorated badly . |
16 | If there was a drawback to this grand strategy , it is that some of the gramophone recordings in recent years have lacked the startling intensity and insights of the theatre performances they have helped to prepare . |
17 | Successive opinion polls in recent years have found only around 10% overall in favour of a united Ireland under present circumstances . |
18 | Placements in recent years have included the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford , the Royal Court , the Glasgow Citizens ' Theatre , and the Abbey Theatre , Dublin . |
19 | Participants in recent years have included The Jesus And Mary Chain , PIL , Robert Cray Band etc . |
20 | Most notably , the Spanish strategy was being implemented by a modernizing , socially reformist government , while in Britain the increasing pressures on the railways in recent years have come from a radical Conservative government hostile to the public sector in principle . |
21 | It is worth noting , for instance , that all the new titles coming out in the United Kingdom in recent years have had substantial backing from a variety of sources : finance corporations , industrial interests , media interests , and so on . |
22 | On the contrary , the economic crisis in the rich countries has led , not surprisingly , to a still greater preoccupation with national economic issues and national development , one aspect of this situation being that aid to the developing countries by the Western nations who are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) has declined as a percentage of their gross national product , while the various protectionist measures which they have taken in recent years have had an adverse effect upon the trade of the developing countries . |
23 | While this was not a major consideration when the trial was originally planned the considerable advances in recent years have meant that the significant proportion of the patients recruited into studies such as this are likely to be potential transplant recipients . |
24 | The location of cemeteries alone near the boundaries might be easily explained , but the accumulating evidence from excavated settlements strongly suggests that many had an adjacent cemetery ( Figure 2.8 ) and the excavation of a number of cemeteries in recent years has indicated the presence of a nearby settlement up to 0.5 km away . |
25 | It is consulted regularly by the Conference of Bishops , and in recent years has made great strides in making the women 's voice heard , and enabling women to play their part in the collaboration at all levels in the Church . |
26 | While British surfing in recent years has developed into Day-Glo sporting fantasy , into pipeline boasts in city pubs , and into Newquay , Newquay , Newquay — booming as the ‘ surf capital ’ of Britain — these boys have looked to carve a different route . |
27 | Television coverage of homosexuality in recent years has increased considerably as a result of AIDS and , more recently , Clause 28 . |
28 | Indeed , in recent years has done rather well out of its visits to Brussels by both politicians and officers . |
29 | The development of retirement counselling in recent years has arisen from the significant numbers of retiring people who soon encounter severe personal problems . |
30 | We make camp for the night in earshot of Crystal Rapid , which in recent years has flipped more boats , taken more lives , and humbled more boatmen than any other on the river . |