Example sentences of "has [be] [verb] in [art] past " in BNC.
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1 | At St Paul 's Cathedral , London , an average of 30 mm of Portland stone has been lost in the past 250 years , with , in one particularly exposed position , 22 mm being lost in just 45 years ( figure 4.20 ; Dudley et al. , 1985 ) . |
2 | The impression has been strengthened in the past few years that macro-economic developments and policies are now essentially international in character . |
3 | Much has been done in the past few months , but more needs to be done . |
4 | In view of the congestion on motorways and major trunk roads , do not those figures still fall short of what is necessary and desirable , despite the improvement that has been made in the past three years ? |
5 | In these countries , a certain income equality has been achieved in the past 40 years , if one leaves aside the party privilegentsia , black-marketeers and writers or performers with access to foreign earnings . |
6 | All he can commit himself to is undoing everything that has been achieved in the past three years . |
7 | The Lotus 1-2-3 range has been expanded in the past 12 months to include Windows , the Apple Mac , and a variety of Unix implementations . |
8 | As the effects of calcium chloride continue to unravel , a new concrete ‘ disease ’ has been uncovered in the past year . |
9 | The Asian Pacific Rim has been transformed in the past 25 years into a major world centre of commerce , industry and economic activity . |
10 | While the construction of arenas bounds on — an enormous amount has been accomplished in the past month — the organisation side does not seem to show the same urgency . |
11 | How much money has been spent in the past year on promoting the donor card , compared with that spent on the more partisan promotional material which the Government have put out on their other health policies ? |
12 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
13 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
14 | And £3.5m has been provided in the past three years from the Social Fund to help the young and long-term unemployed . |
15 | Although the public subsidy has been halved in the past ten years , the growth of passenger traffic has stalled with the recession . |