Example sentences of "but in recent [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 3 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 4 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 5 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
| 6 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 7 | It was traditionally associated with Persia and the southern Caucasus , but in recent years it has been incorporated into the repertoire of weaving groups in other rug-making countries . |
| 8 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 9 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
| 10 | Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation . |
| 11 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 12 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 13 | The Jet project is formally er continuing until the end of 1992 but in recent months we 've had some very great successes in Jet , the work we 've done is of very high quality and , and certainly world leading , and we can see the way ahead to building an experimental reactor after Jet but there are some very important experiments that need to be done before then . |
| 14 | The Citroen BX has long been Britain 's most popular diesel-engined car but in recent months it has been overtaken by another model from the same French stable the ZX . |