Example sentences of "[det] year have " in BNC.
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| 31 | In a reaction , therefore , to these problems the last few years have seen two major changes in approach . |
| 32 | These past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality . |
| 33 | Only in the last few years have real efforts been made to equalize provision for different groups of the disabled and there is still a long way to go before we can claim to have adequate social security in this area . |
| 34 | The last few years have been stressful for teacher education , for it has not only experienced the constant need for self- defence of higher education generally , but also special pressures from the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) , set up in 1984 , and the new funding arrangements for in-service education started in 1986 ( which effectively wiped out the source of student funding for most full-time award-bearing courses ) . |
| 35 | Whereas the last few years have seen women such as Liz Fraser , Kristin Hersh and Mary Margaret O'Hara shred the conventions of writing and performance , marrying impressionistic , ‘ illogical ’ words with disturbed vocalising , Lambert 's songs are still very much stuck in the singer-songwriter tradition of narrative and description . |
| 36 | The last few years have also witnessed some change in the administrative structure of the Welsh Joint Education Committee ( WJEC ) . |
| 37 | The last few years have witnessed an unprecedented period of economic depression for Wales accompanied by massive youth unemployment . |
| 38 | The last few years have seen significant developments in this direction , as the different European Affairs committees in national parliaments study one another 's methods of scrutiny , control , and influence in order to improve their own , and work together more systematically to promote informed and transparent law-making by the Community . |
| 39 | However , the last few years have seen a major closure programme of deep mines in Wales as elsewhere . |
| 40 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 41 | Farms that have ceased to exist in the last few years have been Osentons ( or Clinkham Farm ) , Whitings , Clements and Flint House . |
| 42 | To summarize , it seems that detectors which will go into continuous operation in the next few years have a strong chance of detecting a type II supernova in our Galaxy provided that the collapse is asymmetric to the degree now thought likely . |
| 43 | of the cases in the past few years have been found to be genuine asylum seekers in United Nations terms . |
| 44 | The last few years have seen many manufacturing companies suffer from recession . |
| 45 | Also many of the ESRC Initiatives in the last few years have been able to disseminate their initial findings and results through the Seminar Group . |
| 46 | Decentralization policies by the French government over the last few years have re-enforced the significance of the ‘ Circonscription ’ as a means whereby agencies can maintain and develop their links with communities . |
| 47 | The past few years have seen an unprecedented number of attempts to find new ways of training teachers , by reforming existing routes to Qualified Teachers Status and developing new ones . |
| 48 | The investments and effort of the past few years have paid dividends for the Belfast Telegraph says managing director Bob Crane — resulting in higher circulation and major newspaper awards . |
| 49 | Whereas the last few years have seen women such as Liz Fraser , Kristin Hersh and Mary Margaret O'Hara shred the conventions of writing and performance , marrying impressionistic , ‘ illogical ’ words with disturbed vocalising , Lambert 's songs are still very much stuck in the singer-songwriter tradition of narrative and description . |
| 50 | French financial markets have benefited from deregulation in the 1980s , and the last few years have witnessed an acceleration in financial innovation in France . |
| 51 | The past few years have seen increased interest in the various alternative energy technologies based on solar , wind , wave , and tidal energy . |
| 52 | The last few years have seen unauthorised clothes going all round the world . |
| 53 | The last few years have been rocky for the heir to the Blenheim Palace estate . |
| 54 | MY wife and I joined the National Trust at Cragside in Northumberland and over the last few years have cut a pretty wide swathe through Trust properties in Northumbria , North Yorkshire , Kent , the Lake District and East Anglia . |
| 55 | But these last few years have been a potent reminder of what the union movement was originally about in terms of ensuring just reward for work , and enlightened protection for workforces . |
| 56 | Yet the advances in multiple sclerosis in the last few years have been very encouraging . |
| 57 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 58 | Players who have had serious injury problems to contend with this year have used the $350,000 ( £212,000 ) Stuttgart event as part convalescence . |
| 59 | An increasing number of bent divers this year have shown signs of dehydration . |
| 60 | ‘ People this year have spent a lot of time paying off their debts and credit cards and digging into their savings . ’ |