Example sentences of "make in [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 Yet yesterday 's appointment of Howard Kendall as manager seems , on the face of it , one of the most rational and sensible moves the Blues have made in recent years .
2 Yet yesterday 's appointment of Howard Kendall as manager seems , on the face of it , one of the most rational and sensible moves the Blues have made in recent years .
3 If investments have already been made in recent years , the average investor will not bother to make further improvements until energy prices begin to hurt .
4 We then examine the approaches firms have made in recent years , such as ‘ environmental scanning ’ , to formalise their acquisition of external information .
5 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 ?
6 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 .
7 Large investments in this area also have been made in recent years , as indicated in Table 11.14 .
8 These substantial resources will enable the executive to continue the progress that it has made in recent years in improving housing conditions in Northern Ireland .
9 Considerable advances have been made in recent years in using computer models to understand the intellectual aspects of the human mind .
10 Lightbody 's omission must go down as one of the biggest boobs the NIBA have made in recent years .
11 Early television cameras were large and the image of poor quality , but much progress has been made in recent years .
12 Nevertheless , much progress has been made in recent years .
13 Everybody 's aware that this may well be the last Gen , the last Party Conference before the General Election , and what is more , of , an impression of the terrific progress that the Labour Party 's made in recent years , and further gains over the last year in terms of public support , so that we really are on the threshold of a General Election campaign which we realistically hope to win , and we 've got the policies in place to meet the needs of the nation for the nineties .
14 Although for long established homeowners , falling property prices represent merely a paper loss ( likely to be relatively small compared to paper gains made in preceding years ) , those who bought at , or close to , the peak of the boom , will suffer an absolute drop in the price of their homes .
15 The Japanese FA is to initiate a programme of stadium-building before the choice is made in seven years ' time .
16 The Japanese FA is to initiate a programme of stadium-building before the choice is made in seven years ' time .
17 But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war .
18 This policy posed a general problem for the National WEA , which lacked a clear view on its partnership with other providers , and was an especially acute one for the District where important concessions had been made in earlier years to the Cambridge Board .
19 One of the sharpest recessions came a few years after the Conservative government , sensitive to the enormous profits made in earlier years , had imposed ( in 1963 ) a variable levy rising to 45 per cent on the companies ' advertising revenue ( as distinct from their profits ) .
20 The school is the springboard for sport and , even if commitments are made in later years , early involvement and subsequent progress are important in launching an interest .
21 The plaintiff sued to recover payments he had made in past years , and the Court of Appeal , reversing the judgment of Rowlatt J. , held that he was entitled to do so .
22 Provisions have been made in previous years for anticipated levels of unpaid Community Charge ( poll tax ) .
23 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 .
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