Example sentences of "in recent years [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the costs appearing in the books of the newly nationalised industry were considerably below these , largely because , while capital charges normally formed a large proportion of the total costs of electricity supply , the industry had in recent years been prevented from investing heavily and most of its inherited equipment stood in the books at prewar values . |
| 2 | " Hanslick and others " had indeed found it difficult to place Wagner 's achievements , and furthermore Wagner 's own explicit interpretation of his ideal had in recent years been shifting in an enigmatic way that impelled his articulate young admirer to offer his own clarification : here was one of those " aesthetic problems " which had been occupying his mind for some time . |
| 3 | Since these forms of compulsion are not directly relevant for present purposes , it is unnecessary to elaborate them ; but I think it pertinent to observe that the concept of duress has in recent years been expanded to embrace economic duress . |
| 4 | Intra-market business is large and , as is shown by Table 3.3 , has in recent years been averaging over £2 billion per business day . |
| 5 | Yet while there has been a concerted worldwide effort to save the larger cetaceans from agonising death by human hands , the small cetaceans have in recent years been dying in record numbers . |
| 6 | He was loyal to the old Left , was Alan , unlike their turncoat father who had in recent years been wooed by , and had , it seemed , espoused , the radical Right . |
| 7 | Although the British profession has not adopted a multi-media outlook with the celerity that many would wish , there are plenty of examples of public libraries with visual and aural collections , and the counties of Wiltshire , Somerset and Leicestershire have in recent years been offering significant audio-visual services to teachers and schools . |
| 8 | The claims of those commentators ( for example Meager , 1985 ; LRD , 1987 ) who suggest there has been a growth in temporary working in recent years are given no support whatsoever by these results . |
| 9 | Insurance companies are warning that premiums on property in areas that have suffered from severe storms in recent years are rising because of global warming fears . |
| 10 | Different single-factor causal theories have been proposed , but the trend in recent years is to view the disorder as heterogeneous and multifactorial , arising from the interplay of psychological , familial , cultural , and biological predisposing factors . |
| 11 | The rate of increase of sheep numbers in Powys in recent years is accelerating slowly but the rate of increase in cattle numbers in Cantal is decelerating . |
| 12 | The extent to which the sector as a whole has grown dramatically in recent years is underlined in new figures produced for the government 's report by the research group , Graham Bannock and Partners . |
| 13 | One pollutant which has attracted considerable concern in recent years is lead . |
| 14 | ONE of Miami 's most racially charged trials in recent years was nearing a climax yesterday , as the jury deliberated on the fate of a Hispanic policeman whose killing of two blacks sparked off rioting in January . |
| 15 | Indeed , the growth of self-help movements in recent years was facilitated by the principle of subsidiarity as an established political instrument . |