Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] since [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils excluded indefinitely ( usually for not more than 15 days ) has trebled since 1989 . |
| 2 | STEVEN has followed the rise of the drug in the North East since it became part of the club scene in 1989 he says its popularity has soared since 1991 . |
| 3 | Although the number of cases of infectious syphilis seen in genitourinary medicine clinics has fallen since 1981 , the rate of fall slowed in 1988 ( fig 1 ( bottom ) ) . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman will be delighted to know that unemployment in the Holloway area has fallen since 1987 . |
| 5 | Table 15–2 shows that lead emission from petrol-engined vehicles has fallen since 1973 even though total consumption of petrol has risen by 20 per cent . |
| 6 | First , like other families , the value of their child benefit has fallen since 1984 . |
| 7 | We can see from the annual average figures that sterling 's effective exchange rate has fallen since 1975 ( 1975 = 100 ) and in 1987 it averaged 72.6 — depreciation of 27 per cent . |
| 8 | GAELIC GIRL — Myrtle conducts the Melvich Gaelic choir , a job she has undertaken since 1981 . |
| 9 | The highest marginal rate of tax has fluctuated since 1969 between 34.13% and 20% . |
| 10 | I know , I 'm sure everybody here would have appreciated the reminder of the considerable encouragement that this government has given since nineteen seventy nine erm to adding to charities fiscal benefits , which has added to our income quite considerably . |
| 11 | The lecturer , Martin Wood , counts equally successful those students of the courses he has given since 1984 , at Leith 's School of Food and Wine in London , who subsequently decided not to open restaurants . |
| 12 | What is needed now is a new spirit of political leadership in Ireland , able to respond to the changing social mood as effectively as Charles Haughey 's government has responded since 1987 to the changing economy . |
| 13 | Left governments in Australia , New Zealand , France , and Spain have pursued a series of economic and social policies that are not dissimilar from those that Mrs Thatcher 's government has pursued since 1979 . |
| 14 | Not all have been successful ( and some have been only partly designated ) , but the list has grown since 1980 ( figure 5.4 ) . |
| 15 | The scheme has operated since 1920 and allows successful candidates into the five universities of the Joint Matriculation Board ( JMB ) . |
| 16 | The painting will remain , under the in lieu in situ provision of British law , in the state rooms of the great eighteenth-century Norfolk house where it has hung since 1769 . |
| 17 | The provision of statutory services to the elderly has risen since 1948 , but not sufficiently to keep pace with the increasing number of dependants and the decreasing pool of informal carers ( even now only 11 per cent of people aged 85 and over receive meals-on-wheels , 37 per cent a home help ; OPCS , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | Speaking at the launch of the booklet , David Pollock , Director of ASH , said that the government has accepted since 1965 that cigarette advertising is harmful , especially to children — that 's why it was banned from TV . |
| 19 | First , the policies of every Labour Government under which this country has suffered since 1929 have led to higher unemployment when they left office than when they took office . |
| 20 | Brazil is now , however , heading for oil self-sufficiency in the early 1990s and output has tripled since 1979 . |
| 21 | The data suggest that the underlying increase has accelerated since 1990 . |
| 22 | Today it still has a market as it has done since 1255 and retains its lively and bustling atmosphere . |
| 23 | She had to carry along a spare one which belongs to her mum yesterday , in case the one she has had since 1984 became damaged . |
| 24 | While the number of people drawing such assistance grew steadily during the post-war period , the size of this group has exploded since 1979 . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , as Table 6.1 shows , the rate of growth has quickened since 1979 . |
| 26 | a substantial increase in investment in the water industry has occurred since 1989 . |
| 27 | Such conservation work is , however , being hindered by the huge growth in tourism that has occurred since 1970 , and although there is in theory a master plan which in the mid-1970s allowed for a maximum of 12 000 visitors per year , de Groot states that since 1979 this number has been increasingly exceeded . |
| 28 | We calculate from regression that A/g of oats and mustard would have increased 14.1 to 16.4mmol CO 2 per mol H 2 O , respectively , with the increase from 275 to 350μmolmol -1 CO 2 that has occurred since 1800 . |
| 29 | In the U K most of this growth has occurred since 1950 . |
| 30 | Some stabilisation of Gaelic has occurred since 1961 and the project , following previous pilot studies , aims to indicate the factors promoting this and to assess the strength of factors working against language-maintenance . |