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Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] recent years " in BNC.

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1	The creature is often seen on the Idwal Slabs in North Wales and Stanage and Laddow Rocks in the South Pennines but has of recent years migrated on to the Craven limestone .
2	First , it would undo the anti-inflationary credibility that they have painfully won in recent years , and which is the precise benefit offered by EMS membership .
3	Dovaston is unable to list them publicly because many of the crimes have been committed in recent years and a number are still sub judice .
4	The importance of ‘ generic skills ’ has been stressed in recent years by the Manpower Services Commission ( now Training Agency ) as a flexible response to and preparation for a fast-changing economy .
5	One of the important lessons that doctors and lay people have been relearning in recent years is that physical health and mental well-being belong together .
6	This is precisely what has been happening in recent years , to such an extent that we can without exaggeration speak of a ‘ committals explosion ’ in addition to the remand explosion which we have just outlined .
7	AMERICA 'S oil patch has seen more whingeing than wildcatting in recent years .
8	Much of our knowledge about the domestic and workshop accommodation has been derived from aerial survey , supplemented in recent years by larger area excavations and improved recovery techniques .
9	As we shall see , the latter system has been modified in recent years , but the basic principle upon which the ‘ pool ’ rests remains unchanged , namely that the cost of public sector higher education must be shared among all the local authorities .
10	The principal investigators will be responsible for interviewing key informants about the way the system has been modified in recent years .
11	Of the constituent countries of the UK , Northern Ireland had a considerable degree of devolved government but this has been modified in recent years pending resolution of Ireland 's partition problems .
12	In particular , TV buying has come in recent years to be regarded as something of a separate skill — arguably to the detriment of the media operations of agencies as a whole .
13	They all have alluvial flood plains or levels of wet permanent pasture in which extensive flooding used to be of frequent occurrence , but many improvement schemes have been instituted in recent years with stretches of river being straightened and flood banks raised .
14	Questions of pollution control and industrial responsiveness to environmental threat have become particularly pressing in recent years .
15	In fact , I did n't know until recent years that it was a person at Philips Records who in fact mentioned DeFries to David , and when he did meet DeFries , Angela was very much in favour of David moving from me to him .
16	The platform adopted by the convention on July 13 was very much in Clinton 's moderate image , and was devoid of many of the minority-related positions which it had included in recent years .
17	As a result , consents have tended to be easier and quicker to obtain in recent years .
18	The number of part-time women workers has continued to increase in recent years despite the recession , growing steadily from 2.8 million in 1971 to 4.2 million in 1984 .
19	Backbench protests and revolts have , however , tended to increase in recent years , reflecting the changing background of MPs , and growing divisions of opinion over policy issues within parties ( see Norton , 1985 , pp. 23–81 ) .
20	It 's a competition Rangers have dominated in recent years but the holders ' last defeat in any domestic cup match was inflicted BY Hibs two years ago , the year they won the cup at Hampden .
21	On route from Kilham to Lowthorpe , the heavy stone base of the cross fell off at Ruston Parva and embedded itself in the verge side there , from where it was rescued in recent years and now stands on Ruston Parva village green .
22	They are regularly stocked with rainbow and brown trout , and fish of up to 6lb 12 oz have been caught in recent years .
23	Few salmon are encountered in Loch Doon these days , but brown trout abound and some huge fish have been caught in recent years .
24	The Sandinistas recognise that perestroika will bring changes in their relationship with Moscow , which has in recent years been worth around £625m annually , according to European diplomats .
25	It has been traditionally hunted for food and as a source of medicinal oil , and has in recent years been accidentally captured in fishing nets .
26	First of all , increased interest in the female spectator has in recent years spawned a number of collections of film criticism which ask important new questions of feminist film theorists .
27	His son Michael has in recent years become the more famous actor , but with the re-release of Spartacus , Kirk Douglas , now 74 , is back on the big screen again .
28	Apart from several popular Open Gardens events , it has in recent years twice won the North Humberside prize for the Best Kept Village .
29	The Cripps-Day mourning hood , the only surviving ‘ late sixteenth-century ’ item of its kind , has in recent years proved to be little more than a nineteenth-century pastiche .
30	Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared .