Example sentences of "recent [noun pl] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent decades have seen a remarkable flourishing of Spanish-American fiction . |
| 2 | The police were called at once and the District Chief of Police , whose recent experiences had reinforced a strong natural tendency towards caution , sent immediately for the Mamur Zapt . |
| 3 | But even Mr Papandreou , who in recent years has survived a brutal scandal , major heart surgery and a demanding new marriage , is now looking pretty frail . |
| 4 | This has forced us to look afresh at the regular London days and , with the prompting of a number of the most regular attenders , we have decided to drop the June day , which in recent years has had a low attendance . |
| 5 | The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ . |
| 6 | But recent years have witnessed a remarkable example of their ability to adapt to change . |
| 7 | Other public sector bodies have adopted a similar approach , although recent years have witnessed a growing tendency , particularly in the nationalized industries , for an increasing proportion of capital expenditure to be financed out of current expenditure . |
| 8 | Recent years have witnessed a growing social mobility . |
| 9 | Recent years have seen a good deal of change and instability in energy markets and the aim of the study is to investigate how these have influenced , or have been influenced by , the form of contractual behaviour in the markets . |
| 10 | Recent years have seen a great expansion in the number of librarians working in educational institutions and specializing in educational librarianship ; in Britain this was a later development than in the USA , but none the less the libraries of almost all colleges of education , further education and technology are now run by chartered librarians , and some five hundred or more librarians are also found in secondary schools . |
| 11 | Recent years have seen a developing concern with individualism and the resulting difficulties surrounding working class political organisation . |
| 12 | Recent years have seen a growing awareness that most of these assumptions about rape are myths . |
| 13 | Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in research and publications on post-war British history . |
| 14 | The changes of recent years have brought a small but measurable increase in the size of the audience , now at just under half a million listeners , in spite of its transmission being confined to AM at an off-peak time . |
| 15 | Recent surveys have shown a rapid decline in the UK adult population 's interest in , and understanding of , science and technology . |
| 16 | Recent champions have projected a clean , wholesome image . |
| 17 | In some regions of Northamptonshire recent tests have revealed a higher proportion of homes about the limit than was predicted . |