Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] since [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is the best art fair I 've done since 1989 ’ enthuses Susan Sheehan , a New York print dealer who sold twelve works , including a Matisse aquatint , for ‘ just under $100,000 ’ , and New York dealer Peter Findlay adds , ‘ There is a sense that it is alright to buy art again ’ . |
| 2 | Now they restrict cattle to the 14-hectare hillside plot which they 've had since 1979 — and from which they used to scrape a living of maize and beans before they invaded the valley-bottom land at La Colorada . |
| 3 | Maukala — a simple African stone game I 've played since third grade |
| 4 | ‘ You 've changed since last night , ’ Ruth told him in a soft murmur . |
| 5 | Good heavens , that 's the first time I 've shouted since 1976 … |
| 6 | Despite Brazil 's disastrous economic policies , its reserves have trebled since 1990 , to $13 billion . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the following sentence from a letter of 1814 defending The Excursion reveals how far we have travelled since 1798 . |
| 8 | As I mentioned on the phone yesterday : update on music permissions that have developed since last week : Waterfront ( Simple Minds ) ( confirmation awaited from artists ) and I Like Driving in my Car ( Madness ) will be £75 each for 3 years ' world license , excluding USA . |
| 9 | The extent to which control has moved out of the hands of the local authorities can be seen in Figure 6.7 , where an asterisk ( * ) indicates a power traditionally held by the LEA which can now be taken over by schools which ‘ opt out ’ ; a dagger ( t ) indicates new powers which central government has taken on since 1979 , often transferred from the LEA ; and a double dagger ( 1– ) in the parents or governors column indicates new duties and rights they have received since 1979 . |
| 10 | The only press release I have received since 1990 is a boring one about a scheme for breeder insurance . |
| 11 | The numbers have dropped since five of them left to take up regular positions in the police force . |
| 12 | Their numbers have dropped since five of them left to take up regular positions in the police force . |
| 13 | During the year , the residential courses which we have organised since 1985 and which are aimed at young people aged between 16 and 19 years , produced our 1,000th graduate . |
| 14 | THE shares of Atlas Converting Equipment , whose profits have quadrupled since 1986 , plunged 203 to 580p after the company warned of a slowdown in orders . |
| 15 | Not only does Italy-Brazil represent many people 's ideal coupling for next summer 's World Cup final in Rome but this afternoon 's game also marks the first occasion the two countries have met since that afternoon seven years ago in Spain when the Italians dismissed Falcao , Zico , Junior et al , 3-2 on their way to winning the 1982 World Cup . |
| 16 | ‘ Why , ’ she said sweetly , rising and picking up her clothes , and her bag , now empty of the articles which she had given J. D. O'Connor , ‘ tonight I am going to turn in early , read and rest — such a change after all I have done since this time last week . |
| 17 | But it should be possible to create and enforce enough common rules to prevent the absurd see-sawing of industrial relations legislation we have seen since 1969 . |
| 18 | Is the Secretary of State aware that one of the most damning conclusions of the report on primary education which he published last week was the evidence that standards of reading among seven-year-olds have slumped since 1988 , over precisely the period when Ministers have produced one change after another in the system of standardised testing for seven-year-olds ? |
| 19 | Compare the unit prices of Hong Kong 's export goods with wholesale prices in America , he says , and you will find that both have risen since 1983 by about 3.5% a year . |
| 20 | He and his department have been reluctant to discuss ideas for energy conservation , claiming that sulphur emissions from power stations have declined since 1979 ( and ignoring the fact that they have risen since 1984 , a side effect of faster economic growth ) . |
| 21 | In popular terms more responsibility for Britain 's lack of international competitiveness has been laid at the door of trade unions than at that of management ; an attitude strongly encouraged by the high political profile which unions have adopted since 1945 . |
| 22 | The table shows how the agencies ' ratings of three large Italian banks , Banca Commerciale Italiana ( BCI ) , Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino , have diverged since last year . |
| 23 | We intend that joint declaration to be turned , during this year , into a comprehensive treaty between Russia and the United Kingdom — the first that we have had since 1766 . |
| 24 | ‘ You have lodgings with Mr Tambiah on that wherry and have had since this time last year ? ’ |
| 25 | For this reason , the poppy has been adopted as the flower of remembrance , and a shower of poppies , representing British and Commonwealth fighting men who have died since 1914 , is released at the annual service of remembrance in the Albert Hall , London . |
| 26 | Few institutional changes have occurred since 1979 . |
| 27 | The changes that have occurred since 1979 in the pattern of long term care for older people in Leicestershire , above and beyond the aging of the general population , highlight some of the challenges that many local authorities face in implementing the final phase of the ‘ Caring for People ’ community care reforms . |
| 28 | Indeed , the northern hemisphere mean temperature decrease which began in the 1940s was arrested and reversed during the mid 1970s ( figure 6.15 ) and the seven warmest years in the past 100 years have occurred since 1980 ( 1980 , 1981 , 1983 , 1986 , 1987 , 1988 , 1990 ) . |
| 29 | A series of disasters involving public safety travelling or spectating at sports stadiums have occurred since 1985 . |
| 30 | So Kelly and Sear have looked in more detail at the temperature changes following the handful of similar eruptions that have occurred since 1881 , when those detailed temperature records begin . |