Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this report we provide a summary of the major research undertaken in recent years in Britain , and draw conclusions , insofar as this can be done . |
| 2 | He has also agreed , following the practice adopted in previous years and as specifically requested by the employers and the teachers ' unions , to consult the same interested parties on the details of the draft pay document giving effect to the Government 's recommendations . |
| 3 | The party may have put on a collar and tie but it is still the Labour Party , prone to its old reflexes ( as it reminded us yesterday on defence spending ) , prisoner still of its anachronistic structure , its mind set in 100 years of working-class history . |
| 4 | Fortunately nobody was , and the Greenpeace boat returned in successive years to play the same dangerous game of cat and mouse on the ocean waves . |
| 5 | One of the most interesting papers on stratigraphical palaeontology published in recent years was one on the dating of old mining camps in the American West by means of beer bottles and beer cans . |
| 6 | With the hard-Left marginalised in recent years , the chances of Mr Livingstone getting beyond an intention to stand must be slim . |
| 7 | Most of the work done in recent years has impinged only on specialists . |
| 8 | One major educationally based public relations campaign mounted in recent years was that for Information Technology Year on behalf of the Government . |
| 9 | The future strategy for 1993/94 is composed of consolidation and further development of work piloted in previous years and innovation of new enterprise activities throughout the University . |
| 10 | Mr Letts is the second guard killed in 25 years . |
| 11 | A recognition of this truth doubtless underlies much of the attention given in recent years to matters liturgical . |
| 12 | In fact the rot set in 15 years ago when Dr Coggan asked for a meeting with Jim Callaghan to lobby for the Church to be exempted from a two per cent surcharge on employers ' National Insurance contributions . |
| 13 | A FARM in Bures , Suffolk , has just received a reply from water chiefs to a drainage query sent in 28 years ago . |
| 14 | But if they wish to exploit s381 Taxes Act 1988 ( " TA 1988 " ) , which enables losses of a trade sustained in the first three or four years to be carried back to entitle individuals to repayments of income tax paid in preceding years , they may instead form a partnership to acquire the assets and business . |
| 15 | At that time the sporting aspect was limited to the use of ‘ long dogs ’ , the name given in bygone years to the dogs used for coursing — lurchers , etc . |
| 16 | In the WFS surveys , it refers to the interval between the reported date of birth and the date of interview or other event measured in completed years . |
| 17 | Weller , at No 21 with Uh Huh , Oh Yeh , — his first major hit in four years — says : ‘ People have probably known more about my politics than my music . |
| 18 | Reference should also be made to several useful surveys of user education published in recent years . |
| 19 | Bosses say they can no longer afford the free banking brought in eight years ago in an attempt to beat off competition from building society accounts . |
| 20 | Public expenditure on the social services is considerable : the money spent in recent years has been 40 per cent of Britain 's gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 21 | There has been much advice given in recent years to plant with the graft bud just at or below the soil surface . |
| 22 | Changes in the Pakistan Penal Code introduced in recent years make it a criminal offence for Ahmadis to profess , practice and propagate their faith . |
| 23 | Although the economy improved in recent years , Blaize was soon politically stranded . |
| 24 | What changes has the farmer made in recent years to the seven year plan for the use of one field and the application of fertiliser to it ? |
| 25 | Acid-base transport systems can also be characterised in intact cells by their effects on intracellular pH ( pH i ) , an approach facilitated in recent years by the advent of pH sensitive fluorescent dyes . |
| 26 | The book also includes major statements on communication issued in recent years at MacBride Round Table meetings and major WACC events . |
| 27 | There has been increasing concern expressed in recent years over the amount of unused , vacant , derelict or dormant urban land ( a variety of terms is used , typically with little precision ) . |
| 28 | His command of argot acquired in these years was impressively demonstrated in translations of Raymond Queneau ( 1950 ) and Georges Simenon ( 1955 ) . |
| 29 | I looked around me with amazement at the change effected in twenty years ; so great that this place may now probably be reckoned with justice , the first manufacturing town in the world . |
| 30 | suggested in Ex parte Benson ( No. 2 ) , The Times , 21 November 1988 , the decision in Handscomb had been that detention for a period equivalent to a determinate sentence of 27 years exceeded by such a wide margin any determinate sentence passed in recent years for the offence of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility , and was thus in the absence of reasons irrational , I would not disagree . |