Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | They operate under Royal Charters , appoint their own staff , decide on their own admissions policies and have traditionally had academic freedom in their teaching and research , though the last of these has arguably been eroded in recent years by the ‘ earmarking ’ of government funds for specific subjects , and the need to seek sponsors for particular projects . |
| 2 | Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia . |
| 3 | Some six hundred hectares of that land is actually designated as greenbelt , but in addition within that a number of those areas are er prevented from development in perpetuity we 'd argue because a large part of that area has got a historic status as stray land , which is a form of common land , which means it 's actually not not available for any form of development , similarly the flood planes of the river Ouse in particular is for physical development reasons er prevented from development in many areas , and those of you who were here this weekend will have no noticed the reason why , it was a flooding that took that took place on the Ouse valley , in addition to those constraints , open space within the city is at a premium erm the city falls below the Emperface standard , erm by er something like erm half a hectare per thousand population , so compared with the Emperface standard of two point four per thousand , the city reaches a quite a generous erm categorization of the recreational space we have available , only a total of two hectares per thousand , therefore , and this is very relevant to the Greater York debate , erm , really the only land for development within the city is recycled land , there are limited number of er sites which have not been developed in recent years erm which can be identified for development , and are being identified for development in our draft local plan . |
| 4 | Social perceptions of what is or is not obscene or indecent may change but the legislation may remain to trap the unwary in a much more liberal climate ; and just because the legislation has not been used in many years that does not mean it will not be applied again . |
| 5 | Almost all UK academic libraries attempt to orientate the new user to the services and stock of the library , and there are very few orientation methods which have not been used in recent years — lectures , seminars , tours ( guided and self-guided ) , video-tapes , slide-lectures , tape-slides , programmed instruction , posters , audio-tapes , games , computer-assisted instruction , and of course library guides . |
| 6 | ‘ This is part of an improvement programme for the whole civic building which has not been redecorated in 12 years . ’ |
| 7 | The Eddie Aikau was supposed to be an annual event , but it had not been held in three years for want of perfect conditions . |
| 8 | If investments have already been made in recent years , the average investor will not bother to make further improvements until energy prices begin to hurt . |
| 9 | Somewhat interestingly , no exact passenger figures were detailed in the 1991 DVR report and accounts although this has always been shown in previous years . |
| 10 | As well as the case of Sweden , a good deal of interest has also been shown in recent years in certain features of industrial relations in West Germany and Yugoslavia . |
| 11 | In further and higher education , the gap has also been declining in recent years . |
| 12 | They have n't been shorn in 2 years . |