Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] in recent " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am aware that the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues have promoted all sorts of proposals in recent years , and many of them have been contradictory . |
| 2 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
| 3 | A great deal of history in recent Lakeland books is total rubbish . |
| 4 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
| 5 | However , since much published work combines various approaches , there will be a good deal of overlap between different parts of the discussion and it will be necessary throughout to refer to various theoretical and methodological issues which have received a good deal of attention in recent years . |
| 6 | At Warwick University ( England ) , doctors Steve Van Toller and George Dodd have been carrying out a great deal of research in recent years into the relationship between smell and emotion . |
| 7 | This may reflect a greater fear of unemployment in recent years . |
| 8 | Readers must be warned that it has been the practice of governments in recent years to alter the departmental structure from time to time , ostensibly in an effort to find the best possible framework for policy co-ordination , but — it may be suggested — with less elevated political motives in mind too . |
| 9 | The blaze caused extensive damage at the disused English Martyrs High School at Orford , Warrington scene of numerous fires and acts of vandalism in recent months . |
| 10 | Television coverage of homosexuality in recent years has increased considerably as a result of AIDS and , more recently , Clause 28 . |
| 11 | There has , however , been a change of climate in recent years which has been a result of the pressures for accountability spelt out in Chapter 1 . |
| 12 | Table 5.2 : Attitudes of biogeographers in recent texts |
| 13 | Vets in Hereford have dealt with more than a dozen cases of Distemper in recent weeks . |
| 14 | One response to the rising level of unemployment in recent years has been the growth of Local Employment Development Agencies . |
| 15 | There has been a lot of this kind of partnership in recent years and there is no doubt that there is some mutual benefit but the benefits are unrelated for each party — the college gets a resource that it can use , the donor a warm sense of public spirit , a tax deduction or some publicity . |
| 16 | One of the most powerful forms of inquiry in recent years has been to look at Renaissance writing produced outside the cultural elite , bringing attention to texts marginalised and ignored by the institutional processes which maintains the traditional canon . |
| 17 | The spread of the Cetti 's warbler across the south of England in recent years is well documented . |
| 18 | There has been a certain degree of controversy in recent years over the practice of self-investment by pension funds . |
| 19 | Graduates in German have taken up a wide range of jobs in recent years , in advertising , journalism , local government , tourism , banking , insurance , hospital administration , librarianship , the Civil Service , broadcasting , and in industry and commerce , in Britain and abroad , as well as in teaching . |
| 20 | A trend to higher fertility is a temporary response to the earlier phases of modernization in recent developing societies too , although for different reasons . |
| 21 | Meanwhile we should note that one of the important discoveries of zoologists in recent times , one that has tended to blunt warm and cold-blooded distinctions , is the fact that very large creatures , whether animals or reptiles , show much fewer temperature differentials , especially at weights greater than 100 kg . |
| 22 | A key theme of policy in recent years has been to maximise the extent to which other agencies than government itself can be held responsible for inadequacies in public sector services . |
| 23 | The four short-listed artists are Grenville Davey , Damien Hirst , David Tremlett and Alison Wilding , each of whom has produced an impressive body of work in recent years and is beginning to enjoy international recognition , but none of whom will be familiar to a wider audience . |
| 24 | It seems to me that quite a few of our senior British players have had to put up with more than their fair share of criticism in recent years , when perhaps a bit of encouragement might have been more appropriate . |
| 25 | The alarming escalation of damages in recent cases is best explained as the response of ordinary people to falling standards in the popular press . |
| 26 | June 1941 was the second devastating German invasion of Russia in recent times and it was understandable that Moscow wished to create a buffer zone between itself and Germany . |
| 27 | The pattern of trade in recent years has been much affected by the price of oil . |
| 28 | Despite worsening terms of trade in recent years . |
| 29 | Indeed , many countries have recorded more impressive rates of growth in recent years . |
| 30 | Greater prominence has been given to the role of language in recent government initiatives including the Swann report and in new curricula developments such as CPVE and GCSE and this type of training will be required if classroom teachers are to implement their proposals . |