Example sentences of "year there has [be] " in BNC.

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1 In the debates over the last twenty years there has been considerable interplay of theological and sociological reasoning , with social scientists also contributing to papers and discussions .
2 During the last few years there has been an increase in swinging and ground looping accidents and these must be analysed to see if there are new lessons to be learned .
3 In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the role of the Sovereign in the eventuality of a hung Parliament , such as that of 1929–31 , and the general conclusion has been that her role is essentially a passive one .
4 Over the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of rigs available from shops .
5 This is slightly up on the previous year but for the past five years there has been no substantial rise in the number of asylum-seekers .
6 In the last few years there has been an increasing realization that many modern production methods are not only very wasteful but probably also unnecessary …
7 There is no village now , but for a thousand years there has been a manor .
8 For a thousand years there has been a manor on this site , which belonged to Hesdins , Wriothosleys , Badds and Worgans until the nineteenth century .
9 Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay .
10 Many fashions such as the kipper tie and the string tie have come and gone , and in recent years there has been an upsurge in the popularity of vivid colours and flamboyant designs .
11 In recent years there has been a move in UK schools to standardise scientific nomenclature , and to phase out imperial measurements in favour of metric ones .
12 Ciba-Geigy runs company management courses and in recent years there has been a steady increase in the number of women in these courses .
13 In recent years there has been a great increase in the use of active compounds .
14 And of course in recent years there has been yet another pressure to move away from Brian Way 's methods .
15 They have come from every country on earth … of late years there has been a remarkable influx of Jews into Palestine , but the Turkish government are striving to hinder their settlement by every means in their power . ’
16 In the last ten or fifteen years there has been a trend away from this geographical separation of the clinic , and there are now several purpose-built departments above ground designed as integral parts of new hospital complexes .
17 In the last few years there has been a succession of reports , mostly emanating from the continent of Europe , claiming good results from vaccines against herpes virus .
18 Over the last half-dozen years there has been a quiet revolution in the water industry as this simple realization has dawned upon engineers , farmers , digger-drivers , and even the legislators in Westminster .
19 Clearly in the last twenty years there has been growing controversy about fundamental aspects of policing , unprecedented in this century .
20 In recent years there has been an explosion in the growth of business travel .
21 Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case .
22 In fact , although over the past forty years there has been a major transformation of the Yugoslav economy , inter-regional differences are at least as great as they were before , and in some cases even greater .
23 In recent years there has been more emphasis on the objectives of library services , and less upon quantitative measures .
24 In recent years there has been a strong demand for the Galloway from Germany , especially for low-cost meat production on upland heaths and lowland swamps where the typical German dual-purpose breeds need to be brought inside for the winter and need better grazing .
25 In the last few years there has been a strong demand from Germany as well , but on the whole it has been a home breed rather than a traveller .
26 For several years there has been a major breed improvement and production scheme in France to increase its genetic merit and select the best breeding stock from a nucleus of 45,000 recorded cows .
27 In the main it causes few problems , but in recent years there has been a rise in cases that cause conflict for the advice worker .
28 Over recent years there has been increasing interest in these widely distributed and biologically important compounds , and their importance in platelet biochemistry and platelet-vessel wall interactions has been emphasised .
29 For many years there has been much debate in the UK about who should care for diabetic patients — general practitioners or hospital-based doctors .
30 Over the past fifty years there has been a massive expansion in the extent and importance of fraud .
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