Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to 1,500,000 people were estimated to have voted , although congestion at the polling stations meant that some 30,000 voters had been unable to vote when the polling stations closed at midnight . |
| 2 | In 1917 a mere fifty-three households had been able to sell off excess grain . |
| 3 | These three conceptions have been subject to various criticisms : that many of the discretionary powers are vested in officials and public bodies , that many officials and bodies have powers and immunities that the ordinary citizen does not have , and that certain rights have been modified by or enacted in statute . |
| 4 | ( Under Lome III the comparable figures for these four headings had been 5,460 million ECU ( for grants and special loans ) , 925 million ECU , 415 million ECU and 600 million ECU ) . |
| 5 | All three republics had been independent between 1918-19 and August 1940 when Soviet power was established under the pretext of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact [ see pp. 4181 ; 4163 ] . |
| 6 | All ten residents had been long-term patients in a large psychiatric hospital , were severely disabled and had been discharged only after a lengthy period of active rehabilitation . |
| 7 | Yesterday , after the breakdown , those fourteen miles had been bad , but this was worse . |
| 8 | That one 14-year-old has been responsible for the loss of cars to the value of £2.5 million in the last year alone . |
| 9 | Nearly one million people have been JOBLESS for more than a year and personal BANKRUPTCIES soared by a third to more than 16,000 in the six months to June . |
| 10 | One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production . |
| 11 | The police had earlier evicted an Arab family from one of the houses ; the other five houses had been vacant . |
| 12 | Will he now answer the question why in the other 11 countries of the European Community the total rise in unemployment in the past 12 months has been 130,000 , while in this country , for which the right hon. Gentleman is responsible , unemployment has risen by nearly 800,000 ? |
| 13 | Does not that answer confirm that the increase in crime in the past 12 years has been greater both in proportion and in number than the increase in crime over the previous 12 centuries ? |
| 14 | Does the Minister accept that the virtual destruction of the British Merchant Navy in the past 12 years has been one of the most severe crimes committed against this country by the present Government ? |
| 15 | Yet the past five-ten years have been remarkable for the amount of attention given in America to such principles . |
| 16 | The past six weeks have been full . |
| 17 | His thinking over many years lead to his innovative Lotus 78 , the car that pioneered F1 's ground effect era , and his creative energy over the past 10 years has been instrumental in galvanising Lotus , once a car maker with a fragile future , into an engineering consultancy of huge standing worldwide . |
| 18 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 19 | ‘ My husband has put a lot of work into Maastricht and the last six months have been awful for him , ’ she said . |
| 20 | THE last six months have been tough for John Major . |
| 21 | ‘ Each of the last three quarters has been profitable and results continue to be encouraging . ’ |
| 22 | Any politically informed Briton knows that two of the most politically controversial issues during the last three years have been monetary issues : exchange rate policy ( membership of the ERM ) and interest rate policy . |
| 23 | ‘ We know the last three years have been hard for you , Shai Tung . |
| 24 | ‘ The last 25 years had been bloody , ’ Gauntlett winces . |
| 25 | If it 's something to do with music reflecting society 's tends rather than being the voice of treason , then can we rightly assume that most bands of the last ten years have been pro-Thatcher ? |
| 26 | If it 's something to do with music reflecting society 's tends rather than being the voice of treason , then can we rightly assume that most bands of the last ten years have been pro-Thatcher ? |
| 27 | I met the management of Trent Buses , which operates in a very competitive , deregulated environment , and I am glad to say that its investment programme over the past five years has been impressive . |
| 28 | The number of unsolicited companies approaching the office with offers of help in the past twelve months has been impressive . |
| 29 | Much of geography over the last 40 years has been concerned with analysing these subsystems by breaking down each subsystem into ever smaller component parts and studying these parts , and their interrelationships , at an increasing level of detail . |
| 30 | If history is any guide , the average length of a recession in the past 60 years has been 18 months , with the average bear market wiping out about half the gain made during the bull market it succeeded . |