Example sentences of "in recent years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 2 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 3 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 4 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
| 5 | In recent years he played a number of Shakespearean roles on stage , having earned enough from comedy to become a serious actor . |
| 6 | In recent years he had often carried cameras with any number of attachments . |
| 7 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
| 8 | 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 . |