Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the largest US banks , e.g. Bank of America or Citibank , have earned up to 50 per cent of their annual profits from international operations ; thus a US banking presence overseas is likely to be maintained or increased in future years . |
| 2 | The American gay magazine The Advocate reckons that US sales of gay porn videos have more than doubled in recent years . |
| 3 | Ministers argue that the total expenditure on legal aid has more than doubled in five years , from £49 million in 1987 to a forecast total this year of £104 million . |
| 4 | Applications from parents have more than doubled in three years . |
| 5 | Many of the works in the collection have been published and exhibited in recent years . |
| 6 | A great deal of nonsense has been spoken and written in recent years concerning his lordship and the prominent role he came to play in great affairs , and some utterly ignorant reports have had it that he was motivated by egotism or else arrogance . |
| 7 | Today its cattle , found on about half of all Danish farms and reduced in recent years from more than 3 million to 2.5 million , are more typical of the plains of mainland northern Europe : they are large-framed , short-horned pied lowlands and Baltic reds . |
| 8 | But inevitably , our statistical data , and our descriptions of how money has been raised and spent in recent years , almost all apply to the old system . |
| 9 | The orthodoxy of educational planning and aid policy is subject to spectacular changes as world politics change , as the advice so confidently given and taken in former years proves not to yield the promised fruit , as old gurus are discredited and new ones rise to take their place . |