Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [prep] recent years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warsaw Pact tanks have been fitted in recent years with additional armour , designed to explode when hit by an anti-tank missile , so neutralising its effect . |
| 2 | A Committee sponsored by the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government to " look at problems arising out of the apparent failure … of government and industry to work together effectively " argued that " industrialists have been justified in recent years in criticising the government for failing to provide a stable economic framework within which they can plan and invest in the long-term " . |
| 3 | Mr Steisel says annual savings of over $100m have been achieved in recent years . |
| 4 | And though the protracted battles between Congress and the Bush administration which have been waged in recent years are unlikely , Clinton 's proposals could be changed significantly by Congress prior to enactment . |
| 5 | Within the context of stationary axisymmetric space-times , many techniques have been developed in recent years by which new solutions may be obtained from initial vacuum solutions . |
| 6 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 7 | Great strides have been made in recent years to offer greater choice and to personalise private rooms , but resources are never enough to provide the optimum living conditions for a comfortable and happy old age . |
| 8 | Large investments in this area also have been made in recent years , as indicated in Table 11.14 . |
| 9 | Considerable advances have been made in recent years in using computer models to understand the intellectual aspects of the human mind . |
| 10 | These changes do reflect a recognition of the growing importance of part-time work ( which is where most of the new jobs have been created in recent years ) and a recognition that full-time work is difficult for many lone mothers to sustain , given their domestic responsibilities . |
| 11 | Piling on the confusion , Ramish Vassen , a Cape Town lawyer representing three of the prisoners , said he went yesterday to Pollsmoor prison , where they have been kept in recent years , to deliver a suit for one of his clients , Elias Motosaledi . |
| 12 | They have been targetted over recent years . |
| 13 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns in a series of changes designed to breathe new life into the programme . |
| 14 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns . |
| 15 | Numerous counts of winter flocks have been recorded in recent years , and gatherings of several thousands have been found regularly in most of the main areas of permanent grassland in the county , and in many coastal areas . |
| 16 | They are regularly stocked with rainbow and brown trout , and fish of up to 6lb 12 oz have been caught in recent years . |
| 17 | Few salmon are encountered in Loch Doon these days , but brown trout abound and some huge fish have been caught in recent years . |
| 18 | But although great strides have been taken in recent years to reduce the levels of dioxins in the environment , many governments recognise more research and monitoring is needed . |
| 19 | Several other procedural reforms have been suggested in recent years . |
| 20 | As we have seen , the civil and political elements of citizenship have been eroded in recent years . |
| 21 | As far as the citizenship of entitlement as formulated by Marshall is concerned , Labour is opposed to the introduction of a Bill of Rights , for example , which would be one way of restoring the civil and political rights which have been eroded in recent years . |
| 22 | But they have been eroded in recent years , and it is likely that this erosion will continue although , as before , it will have varied impact according to issue and ( geographical ) place . |
| 23 | The study of social and economic aspects of early Anglo-Saxon society are still viewed as spin-offs from art-historical and technological study rather than topics worthy of treatment in their own right ; when thematic studies have been produced in recent years the themes have tended to remain based on site-types or artefacts rather than themes which may be more directly relevant to past human behaviour ( Wilson 1976a ) . |
| 24 | We shall start with a description of the banking system , and then proceed to consider the types of monetary policies that have been used in recent years , and their effects . |
| 25 | It challenges some of the teaching methods that have been used in recent years and it suggests that schools should concentrate on commonsense , practical teaching . |
| 26 | Think of all the diets that have been published in recent years . |
| 27 | They all have alluvial flood plains or levels of wet permanent pasture in which extensive flooding used to be of frequent occurrence , but many improvement schemes have been instituted in recent years with stretches of river being straightened and flood banks raised . |
| 28 | Swordfish is a great delicacy in Europe , and has been traditionally caught on longlines , although catch rates have been declining in recent years . |
| 29 | National " net " wastage figures have been declining in recent years so that although learner intakes have declined from 30,000 to 18,000 between 1981 – 87 , the total qualified workforce increased from 212,000 to 239,000 ( Grocott 1989 ) . |
| 30 | Several historic buildings around this area at the top of the High Street have been restored in recent years as student residences . |