Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] since the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 2 | This has been recognised periodically since the 17th century . |
| 3 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 4 | Slate has been quarried here since the fourteenth century , and continuously since at least Tudor times ; in those days there were many separate quarries extracting the valuable material for use as roofing , flooring , field walls and so on . |
| 5 | However , it is not commonly recognised that the Anglican liturgy has been evolving continuously since the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | The average size of the sentenced prison population has been increasing steadily since the Second World War . |