Example sentences of "in recent years have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Items can be found on every continent and in recent years have become very popular again , especially as collectors pieces . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Alyssum flourishes , whatever the weather , and breeding advances in recent years have made this plant a lot more versatile . |
| 4 | Medical advances in recent years have made male and female sterilisation simpler and more acceptable to many people . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Advances in molecular biology in recent years have served to emphasize the possible relationships between homoeopathy , immunology and genetics . |
| 12 | A mountain bike is the perfect touring vehicle for Nepal 's roads , which in recent years have deteriorated badly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Successive opinion polls in recent years have found only around 10% overall in favour of a united Ireland under present circumstances . |
| 15 | Placements in recent years have included the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford , the Royal Court , the Glasgow Citizens ' Theatre , and the Abbey Theatre , Dublin . |
| 16 | Participants in recent years have included The Jesus And Mary Chain , PIL , Robert Cray Band etc . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |