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 .
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