Example sentences of "[prep] recent years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the greatest losers were the country 's banks which , after recent years of high asset growth , saw the value of their share holdings greatly reduced . |
| 2 | These qualities have always been present in the metaphors and similes of poetry but they have been less frequent in painting , which in the past was largely concerned with reproducing external reality , with decoration , or , as in the more advanced movements of recent years , with the composition of color and line into formal design . |
| 3 | The supreme text of recent years is James Fox 's account of Lord Lucan and his set , with their boffes de politesse . |
| 4 | And in fact , of recent years Dickens 's Mr Podsnap has walked again , cherishing insularity as a patriotic duty . |
| 5 | Fascinating though they are , thoughts of Classic confrontations to come were put on to the back-burner by another dazzling performance from Zilzal , who stamped himself as one of the outstanding milers of recent years with a thrashing of the French champion , Polish Precedent . |
| 6 | But instead the ball whipped unplayablly along the floor and in another moment the man from Adelaide was celebrating with a grim , pale smile one of the biggest upsets of recent years . |
| 7 | Terry Hands , retiring director of the RSC , will be facing up to Douglas Mason of the Adam Smith Institute , whose Expounding The Arts has been one of the most interesting discussion documents of recent years . |
| 8 | As recently as last year , Anderson was asked by the Ugandan government to advise on the restructuring of the civil service there , following the turmoil of recent years . |
| 9 | Bath players of recent years have never appeared as convincing for England as they regularly do for Bath ; while if they are part of one of those curious South-West sides their form goes down yet another notch . |
| 10 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 11 | The person who decided this was almost always the vicar ; though of recent years he could not make elaborate changes without the support of a majority in his church council . |
| 12 | However , the inner city depopulation of recent years has led to falling rolls in city schools and the consequent rationalisation of local education has caused certain Board schools to become redundant , releasing them for alternative uses . |
| 13 | ON the eve of the most significant European Community summit of recent years , the French and West German governments moved quickly yesterday to avert a damaging split over plans to move to full European economic and monetary union . |
| 14 | She wanted to know what the UK Vehicle Division was doing to correct its appalling track record of recent years , particularly when compared with its Continental plants . |
| 15 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 16 | The four-year-old Pebbles who travelled to New York was already one of the toughest and most popular fillies of recent years . |
| 17 | Margaret Thatcher 's distaste for royal commissions is well known , but when her government faced the most serious foreign policy misjudgement of recent years — the failure to predict and forestall the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands — it was time to send for Oliver Franks again . |
| 18 | The low birthrate of recent years means that , by the end of the decade , much of the world 's work will be done by women . |
| 19 | NEXT , which a year ago reported one of the biggest losses ever by a British retailer , yesterday announced a return to dividends and provided the hardest evidence yet that the troubles of recent years are behind it . |
| 20 | But , he says , agents have also learned the lessons of recent years by adapting their sales measures to cope with the recession , identifying more closely buyers capable of meeting their financial responsibilities and building solid ‘ chains ’ to ensure successful completion of negotiations . |
| 21 | A majority of 21 looks pretty slim against the three-figure majorities of recent years , but it should be sufficient for a full Parliament . |
| 22 | For this season the hectic schedule of recent years continues , although the Sunday league , a competition certain at least to be revamped in 1993 , is without a sponsor , a fact which will cost the TCCB — and therefore the counties — £50,000 in prize money . |
| 23 | PAMELA COUNTESS OF ONSLOW , who has died aged 76 , became a celebrity in 1973 when she emerged as a key figure in the ‘ Littlejohn Affair ’ — one of the more curious spy stories of recent years . |
| 24 | We will establish a new independent transport safety inspectorate within the health and safety legislation to improve the safety environment which has led to the terrible tragedies of recent years . |
| 25 | Another charitable event of recent years is the ‘ Shot Gun Start ’ which was stared in 1982 to support the South Atlantic Fund established to help victims of the Falklands Campaign . |
| 26 | Of the males in Norway , one of the best of recent years that I have particularly liked was Norwegian Ch. |
| 27 | The miners ' strike will give us an opportunity to discuss the militarization of the police , one of the most noticeable as well as one of the most controversial trends of recent years . |
| 28 | Contrary to normal practice , ‘ the most discussed football official of recent years ’ , as the Daily Mail described him , had his team training at Highbury in the week before the final , rather than at a country or seaside resort ( Brighton was later to become the favoured Cup training ground ) . |
| 29 | He says he agrees with Mr Tebbit that many of the evil deeds of recent years which have seen child murders and terrorism of a particularly disgusting type , can not be answered by ‘ mere questions of policing , penal treatment or sentencing policy and can not either be justified or explained by talking of urban deprivation and unemployment . ’ |
| 30 | Kelly is no longer the most consistently successful roadman of recent years . |