Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good morning , I must say , I I stand before you today somewhat nervous , because erm , this is , this is my first to you as Treasurer , but this will be a slightly different speech from one 's that I have given in previous years . |
| 2 | This is due in part to rising divorce rates , but also because remarriage rates among divorced women have fallen in recent years . |
| 3 | Unlike other inorganic texts it is based on the periodic table , although 500 of its 1365 pages are on introductory or special topics , such as organometallics , cluster and bio-inorganic chemistry , which have developed in recent years . |
| 4 | Value for money ( VFM ) audits have developed in recent years as a way of expanding the more traditional role of the auditor away from the more straightforward examination of the fairness of the financial statements of an organization . |
| 5 | Because a great many have developed in recent years . |
| 6 | What we have witnessed in recent years is a subtle change whereby the courts , often without alluding to the authorities mentioned , have reviewed decisions to test their evidentiary basis . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan has launched an appeal for a centre to rescue orphaned and injured Mediterranean monk seals , whose numbers have collapsed in recent years to the point where they are , according to the Prince , " one of the most forgotten creatures on earth " . |
| 9 | Secondly , all the groups who are considered to be priorities by both the Government and the Opposition — low-income pensioners , low-income families and disabled people — have benefited significantly from what the Government have done in recent years . |
| 10 | So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario . |
| 11 | However , the work you will be doing in the Art Department is the first two years of the Senior School is probably a bit different from what you have done in previous years . |
| 12 | Although commercial shipping is no less in need of the RNLI 's services than it was , launches to pleasure boats and fishing vessels have risen in recent years . |
| 13 | Yet as Comecon 's major source of hydrocarbons the countries have felt in recent years the strain of cutbacks in Soviet oil exports as well as what they consider to be unfair trading terms caused by rising costs which they lack the economic freedom to renegotiate . |
| 14 | Hence cross-boundary flows , and the inability of districts to control referrals from general practitioners , were a major cause of the financial problems such districts have suffered in recent years . |
| 15 | It is reported that Mrs Thatcher has been keen to ensure that those promoted are sympathetic to her scale of values or are not unwilling to break away from the style of middle-of-the-road consensus policies that have predominated in recent years . |
| 16 | Yet yesterday 's appointment of Howard Kendall as manager seems , on the face of it , one of the most rational and sensible moves the Blues have made in recent years . |
| 17 | Yet yesterday 's appointment of Howard Kendall as manager seems , on the face of it , one of the most rational and sensible moves the Blues have made in recent years . |
| 18 | We then examine the approaches firms have made in recent years , such as ‘ environmental scanning ’ , to formalise their acquisition of external information . |
| 19 | Lightbody 's omission must go down as one of the biggest boobs the NIBA have made in recent years . |
| 20 | As the right hon. Gentleman knows , the essential basics to make sure that things are right are to keep inflation down , to keep interest rates down , to have the right tax structure and to continue with the improved industrial relations that we have had in recent years . |
| 21 | ‘ Several serious incidents have occurred in recent years and in the worst , there have been deaths . ’ |
| 22 | A number of vintage aircraft have crashed in recent years … so are old planes unsafe : |
| 23 | Journals or papers designed to be sold in a number of African countries can succeed commercially , as some have shown in recent years , but these are directed at a limited , élite readership . |
| 24 | ‘ The Department of Education and Science themselves said the teachers should not get more than five per cent that is what teachers have got in recent years . |
| 25 | Yet the difficulties which some governments have experienced in recent years in delivering political promises that the size of the bureaucracy would be reduced suggest that there is something to the foundation upon which economic models of bureaucracy have been built . |
| 26 | They have found that algae are thriving on nutrients from sewage , farm runoff and factory waste : when they die they drift to the bottom and consume the available oxygen ; water hyacinths clog the shallows , reducing the light and oxygen reaching the area where many of the native fish species live ; in the past the fish acted as a check on the algae , but more than 400 species have disappeared in recent years ; one culprit is considered to be the Nile perch , a large fish introduced in the 1950s . |
| 27 | Will he tell the House just how much effort he and his colleagues in the Department have devoted in recent years to bringing that message home to employers ? |
| 28 | We would also like to record our thanks to the many people who have covenanted in previous years and whose names have appeared in earlier Reports . |
| 29 | The teaching is just as accurate and painstaking and thorough as I have found in previous years . |
| 30 | Peregrines , whose numbers have recovered in recent years after poisoning by pesticides used in the 1960s caused a slump in the population , are given special protection by the Wildlife and Countryside Act . |