Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] recent decade " in BNC.
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| 1 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
| 2 | Some of this research suggests that in certain cases , for example the bauxite and aluminium industry , the global disposition of power is still very much in favour of the First World TNCs , while in other cases , for example petroleum and perhaps copper , the balance of power has shifted in recent decades , and the First World TNCs have to be content with a smaller share of the revenues . |
| 3 | The Government will have mapped out its legislative programme for the session in the Queen 's Speech at the opening of the session and will give first priority to the commitments there undertaken and to any important urgent Bill ( as has happened in recent decades in the cases of Rhodesia and Northern Ireland ) . |
| 4 | This affinity or linkage has real historical roots though its importance and character has changed in recent decades . |
| 5 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 6 | In some wooded areas which have developed in recent decades on open ground , such as abandoned heathlands , the opportunity is being taken to restore the now scarce and declining open habitat . |
| 7 | Many of the trees have died in recent decades , apparently as a result of the abandonment of traditional pollarding and grazing practices . |
| 8 | Annual increases in carbon dioxide emissions have slowed in recent decades from an average annual rate of 4.5 per cent in the 1960s to less than 2.5 per cent per year since . |
| 9 | But mutual aid organisations which have proliferated over recent decades are based on an assumption that practical and highly specific emotional support after the event , and from new social relationships , is helpful . |