Example sentences of "[verb] take place [prep] recent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I er do n't agree that there has been er understaffing and in the statement which I made to the House today I was able to point out what a very big increase in er the total complement of the prison officers has taken place during recent years , but it 's up to Lord Justice Woolf to look in to whatever evidence is put before him , it 's for him to look at the terms of reference and he will no doubt decide what is relevant and what is not . |
| 2 | Other assets , are constituted mainly by equipment , e.g. computers , in which considerable investment has taken place in recent years . |
| 3 | The rule requiring automatic exchange of witness statements in personal injury actions came into effect on 16 November 1992 and is one of the single most significant changes in the pattern of litigation to have taken place in recent years . |
| 4 | This , together with improvements in diet and exercise and also in the average man 's or woman 's physical environment throughout the century , may account for the decline in the death-rate which has continued to take place in recent years for those who have already reached middle age ( see Table I.6 ) . |
| 5 | Two relatively modern areas have been investigated — those of telephone selling as a technique and the selling of services because of societal changes that have taken place over recent years . |
| 6 | Several organisations are active , and aim to keep the village character , which is still there despite the many changes , not always welcome ones , which have taken place in recent times . |
| 7 | The chapters by Rowntree , Broadfoot and Nuttall examine a number of key developments in the assessment of pupil performance , and point to the rapid speed and scale of changes that have taken place in recent years . |
| 8 | As a result , two changes have taken place in recent years in the way in which the mother-child relationship is being studied . |
| 9 | This chapter looks at the existing pattern of UK taxation and the changes that have taken place in recent years . |