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Example sentences for "recent years"

  • Already in recent years I have noticed sporadic signs of improvement.

  • In recent years, however, a change seems to have taken place in public opinion, and some people now assert that this so-called Imperial whim was an act of far-seeing policy.

  • Much as the South has progressed industrially in recent years, it still remains far behind those industrial portions of the country which were thickly settled at an earlier date.

  • The boar is more dangerous to man than any animal in our jungles, and I have heard of three or four deaths caused by them in recent years in my district.

  • There has also been an increase in the stockdove and turtle-dove in recent years, and the former species is extending its range in the north.

  • He says they have greatly increased in recent years in this part of Cornwall because they are no longer molested; no person, he says, not even a game-keeper anxious about his pheasants, would think of shooting a jackdaw.

  • The wood-pigeon is another species which, like the starling, has increased greatly in recent years, without special protection and with no sentiment in its favour.

  • In recent years, however, the economy has diversified into manufacturing and tourism.

  • A sustained structural adjustment program, including a liberalized trade policy, has fostered a respectable 4% rate of growth in recent years.

  • The economy has slackened in recent years, as the annual increase in the number of tourists slowed.

  • Nevertheless, in recent years, Bhutan has shifted toward decentralized development planning and greater private initiative.

  • Consequently the economy has shown little progress in recent years in overcoming a severe setback brought on by civil war in the late 1980s.

  • Rapid growth in exports of agricultural and manufactured products and in tourism have played important roles in the average 6% rise in GDP in recent years.

  • In recent years, however, the impact of fighting an internal war has severely affected the nonoil economy, and food has to be imported.

  • Lanier's ideas strike one as singularly balanced and sane, suggesting a compromise between the warring camps of recent years.

  • Under the third head he suggests the study of various forms of writing, -- an idea which has been carried out in recent years.

  • Aruba's small labor force and less than 1% unemployment rate have led to a large number of unfilled job vacancies despite sharp rises in wage rates in recent years.

  • Annual GDP growth has averaged over 4% in recent years from a low base.

  • Output growth had averaged about 7% in recent years, mainly as a result of a boom in tourism thanks to economic expansion in North America and the UK.

  • Australia has suffered from the low growth and high unemployment characterizing the OECD countries in the early 1990s, but the economy has expanded at reasonably steady rates in recent years.

  • Studies of Christian Doctrine, is the most important statement of the Unitarian view published in recent years.

  • Footnote: The usual hour for the meeting of Parliament was early, and Clarendon complains of the laxity which, of recent years, had made the hour as late as ten o'clock A.

  • If the King needed more after the lavish grants of recent years, there must have been mischief afoot which should be probed to the bottom.

  • If we look around us we see how greatly the aspect of the world has altered in recent years.

  • True, courts all over the world have improved wonderfully of recent years.

  • This relation of government and people has become modified of recent years to a very obvious degree, but constitutionally not a step has been taken in the direction of popular, that is to say parliamentary, rule.

  • Many a broken and mutilated cross has been set up in Ireland in recent years, proving that the heart of the Gael, no matter how rent and broken, is still inclined to bind up the broken wounds of her past glories.

  • Of all the Irish playwrights who have arisen in recent years, Lady Gregory has produced most and W.

  • Conversely, a rate only adequate to equalize this difference on cheaper goods would remove protection from the fine-goods manufacture, the increase in which has been one of the striking features of the trade's development in recent years.

  • It has been the custom, of recent years, for the Abbey Theatre to begin its Dublin season In October and to continue it on until May, when the company goes to London for a month.

  • Mr. Herbert Trench has of recent years surrendered to theatrical management, but there is to his credit a substantial accomplishment of lyrical verse that George Meredith would have approved.

  • Of recent years Mr. Munro has wandered farther afield than his native Argyll, and, I feel, to the lessening of the beauty of his writing.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    artificial means; each feeding; ever saw; fair means; full assurance; greatly obliged; her voice very low; litmus paper; little town; mortal woman; pale greenish; political activity; recent date; recent discoveries; recent events; recent fiction; recent months; recent number; recent period; recent visit; recent writer; recent years; soon followed; then ready; wide space; would call