Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] since [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a two-storey mill ( now open to the public ) which he built in 1752 , though it has been much altered since that time . |
| 2 | Despite this criticism , pluralists can point to the fact that the share of military expenditure as a percentage of GDP has not constantly risen since 1945 — there were definite downturns after Korea and Vietnam . |
| 3 | The harbour of Portree , the principal town on Skye , is , as Boswell observed , ‘ a large and good one ’ , and from it the road climbs up into the town , now much built since 1773 — a square , several banks , a school , and many , many tourists . |
| 4 | Philip Ball and his fellow prisoners feared that life in the stricter Queen 's Bench Prison ( so named since 1837 ) , to which they would be transferred , would be less jovial . |
| 5 | Facilities have greatly improved since those days and in 1965 the magnificent five tier grandstand was opened . |
| 6 | On almost every issue we investigated the consultants emerge as the most pessimistic , critical or even dismissive group … doctor/manager relations are not greatly changed since pre-Griffiths days . |
| 7 | Why has it suddenly changed since nineteen hundred ? |
| 8 | The basic tenor of the publications of the extreme Right has scarcely altered since that date . |
| 9 | If the British people had voted on Thursday for a Labour government , they would have run counter to the swing away from socialist prescriptions across the whole of the rest of Europe ; more , they would have signalled the rejection of everything that has been so painfully achieved since 1979 in making Britain a competitive modern society founded upon the doctrine of personal responsibility and enterprise . |
| 10 | Over a four-year period , 18 per cent compound approximately doubles , and Britain 's broad money supply has approximately doubled since that fatal Mansion House speech . |
| 11 | Key institutions : ( i ) The Commission ( which proposes legislation and implements the Treaties-for composition see pp. 36405-06 ) ; ( ii ) the Council ( the key decision-making body generally comprising the relevant government ministers from each state but also meeting twice a year at head of state and government level as the European Council ) ; ( iii ) the Parliament or Assembly , directly elected since 1979 ; ( iv ) the European Court of Justice ; ( v ) the European Investment Bank ; and ( vi ) the Economic and Social Committee ( Ecosoc , an advisory body ) . |
| 12 | Ashi had met him during the height of the oil boom , when the late Shah was pouring the country 's new-found wealth into creating an entire new infrastructure for a land that had hardly changed since biblical times . |
| 13 | The top 15 has hardly changed since last season . |
| 14 | The UN force in Croatia has been nearly paralysed since 22 January when Croatia 's army began to bombard Serb-dominated areas under UN protection , blowing apart a year old ceasefire . |
| 15 | World meat production has nearly quadrupled since 1950 . |
| 16 | Tiao Sisoumang Sisaleumsak and Houmphanh Norasing , both detained since 1975 , are among 33 detainees still held in Laos ' northeastern province of Houa Phanh . |
| 17 | The mercury content in fish from this area has been extensively monitored since 1970 by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food [ MAFF ] , ICI and North West Water — and more recently the National Rivers Authority . |
| 18 | Sales of cigars and cigarillos have also decreased since 1978 ( 1,730 million in number to 1,450 million in 1986 ) and sales of pipe tobacco have continued to decline ( 2.8 million kilos manufactured weight in 1986 ) . |
| 19 | Investment by type of asset has also changed since 1979 . |
| 20 | The composition of the upper strata has clearly changed since pre-industrial times . |
| 21 | ( Recent demands by the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) will have ensured that these courses have been substantially revised since 1984–5 ) . |
| 22 | No team has really dominated since 1976 but now-defunct clubs Leytonstone & Ilford , Walthamstow Avenue and Dagenham all managed to get their names on the trophy before losing their identity . |
| 23 | Our share of world trade has been falling for years under successive governments to the extent that the purchasing power of our currency has roughly halved since 1945 . |
| 24 | The median delay has substantially increased since 1990 in all five pain clinics based in district general hospitals : in three of these clinics it has more than doubled . |
| 25 | And there 's also some cases where er the plans have actually partially lapsed since last renewal and in which case it 's quoting the premium they 're paying now which is a lot less than the premium they were paying at renewal . |
| 26 | It is usually considered , though , that Ptolemy made a mistake with his co-ordinates , since the distance from London to his second Salinae also coincides conveniently with the distance to Droitwich , where inland salt production had been well established since prehistoric times . |
| 27 | As stated above production has almost halved since 1979 and at the same time the price of its premium Bonny light crude has fallen from $40 per barrel to $28.65 and is always threatened by the North Sea producers . |
| 28 | The chances of being killed in a road accident have almost halved since 1979 . |
| 29 | BR 's passenger coaches and brake vans have almost halved since 1970 . |
| 30 | The discharge rate of people aged 15 or over has almost doubled since 1982 . |