Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] [prep] recent years " in BNC.
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| 1 | More specific economic policies , which have been widely discussed in recent years , fit within this tendency towards an autocratic state . |
| 2 | Yet this is becoming increasingly difficult as the numbers of new council houses being built have been greatly reduced in recent years , while many have been sold off by Conservative councils . |
| 3 | Within the National Parks , all land use surveys have shown how their landscapes have been much altered in recent years by the advance of agriculture and forestry ( Leonard , 1980 ) although as Table 8.2 shows , both National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) still contain very few urban areas ( Anderson , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | Key words have been much used in recent years in the retrieval of information . |
| 5 | Here in the UK , we have to clean up the image of our Rottweilers , which has been so tarnished in recent years . |
| 6 | Skil , like several other traditional power tool manufacturers , has realised that the outdoor market has been largely untapped in recent years . |
| 7 | Insurance , both life and non-life , has been rapidly expanding in recent years and this is a continuing trend as people and companies become more risk-conscious and because of the growth in the pensions industry . |
| 8 | This subsector is recognized as another growing one and it has been further differentiated in recent years by the recognition of a specifically educational , volume travel market . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The aura of compulsion in the public child care services has been extensively analysed in recent years . |
| 12 | The problem has , in fact , been extensively argued during recent years . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The interwar debate over economic policy has , of course , been extensively researched in recent years , and Keynes 's contributions are well documented . |
| 15 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 16 | When I approached the Newcastle local education authority about one of the constituents to whom I have referred , I was told that the city council 's budget for discretionary awards had been severely cut in recent years . |
| 17 | The question of whether social security benefits give rise to a ‘ culture of dependency ’ has been hotly debated in recent years . |
| 18 | In large scale industry ( such as the Automotive Industry ) the use of cordless tools has been steadily increasing in recent years so it is by no means novel technology . |
| 19 | There are , for example , no elected fascist representatives in the United States , the dollar has been steadily devalued in recent years , the country 's borders are more open , and unemployment is significantly lower than in Europe . |
| 20 | Notwithstanding these observations on the effectiveness of policy implementation , the entire approach to selected settlements has been heavily criticized in recent years . |
| 21 | The law concerning nullity and divorce has been considerably reformed in recent years , and is now mostly governed by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 . |