Example sentences of "have been [verb] in [adj] 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 | ‘ No new water supplies have been developed in 20 years . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Large investments in this area also have been made in recent years , as indicated in Table 11.14 . |
| 10 | Considerable advances have been made in recent years in using computer models to understand the intellectual aspects of the human mind . |
| 11 | Provisions have been made in previous years for anticipated levels of unpaid Community Charge ( poll tax ) . |
| 12 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns in a series of changes designed to breathe new life into the programme . |
| 16 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns . |
| 19 | They are regularly stocked with rainbow and brown trout , and fish of up to 6lb 12 oz have been caught in recent years . |
| 20 | Few salmon are encountered in Loch Doon these days , but brown trout abound and some huge fish have been caught in recent years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Several other procedural reforms have been suggested in recent years . |
| 23 | As we have seen , the civil and political elements of citizenship have been eroded in recent years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Think of all the diets that have been published in recent years . |
| 30 | 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 . |