Example sentences of "extensively [verb] [prep] recent years " in BNC.
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| 1 | English hill forts and medieval towns have been extensively excavated in recent years , and a new dimension has been added to our knowledge of them ; in this the Biddles have been the incomparable pioneers in their excavations at Winchester — but many other cities have made a major contribution , including York and Lincoln and Oxford . |
| 2 | As I have shown , the theory of the state as a system of domination , in its Marxist form , has been qualified and extensively revised in recent years , while the elite theories have also been obliged to confront , however inadequately , the possibility that domination becomes a less salient characteristic with the growth of democracy . |
| 3 | The problem has , in fact , been extensively argued during recent years . |
| 4 | The interwar debate over economic policy has , of course , been extensively researched in recent years , and Keynes 's contributions are well documented . |
| 5 | Launched by Mayer and Timms and continued by , among others , Sainsbury and his colleagues at the University of Sheffield , this new approach to the evaluation of social work has revealed previously uncharted areas of knowledge , and has been extensively reviewed in recent years ( Sainsbury , 1980 ; Craig , 1981 ; Rees and Wallace , 1982 ; Fisher , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Indeed the relationship between landscape and the arts has been extensively explored in recent years , and Olwig ( 1984 ) Pocock ( 1981 ) and Relph ( 1981 ) have shown how many of our values are derived from such sources , notably humanism and literature . |
| 7 | The aura of compulsion in the public child care services has been extensively analysed in recent years . |