Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] low " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pay for leading art-historians has always been lower in Britain than in the United States , but the brain drain has got worse . |
| 2 | The unit of resource ( the yearly cost per full time student ) has always been lower in the polytechnics than in the universities and recent downward pressure has widened the gap from £1,425 in 1982 to £2,315 in 1986/87 . |
| 3 | Table 3.7 Sterling bonds , other than gilt-edged , listed on the London Stock Exchange 30.9.1991 Turnover in secondary market trading has traditionally been low , both for domestically issued bonds and for eurosterling bonds . |
| 4 | However , the vaccine 's effectiveness in developing countries , particularly in inducing serum neutralising antibodies against poliovirus types 1 and 3 , has often been lower than expected . |
| 5 | The number of people killed has never been lower . |
| 6 | The educative power of our academic institutions has never been lower : it is journalism that gives the lead . |
| 7 | For four years running , the Government 's teachers ' pay committee has reported that teachers ' morale has never been lower . |
| 8 | ‘ Morale among the Associations ’ 800 members has never been lower since I joined in 1977 and this represents the launch of a campaign for a better deal for referees and linesmen . ’ |
| 9 | The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities . |
| 10 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 11 | One option would be to raise the duty on petrol : Britain 's fuel prices have long been lower than the EC average , and petrol duties have provided a static share of tax revenues in spite of the rapid growth in road use . |
| 12 | No one knows whether river dolphins were once more abundant or whether their numbers have always been low because of their restrictive and specialised habitat . |
| 13 | However , yields have always been low because of the climate . |
| 14 | The territories that they inhabit are for the most part inhospitable , with some of the world 's highest mountains and large expanses of desert ; and levels of literacy have traditionally been low ( some of the nationalities concerned had no written language at all at the time of their incorporation into the USSR ) . |
| 15 | Incomes in the area have therefore been lower than in the UK as a whole , and out-migration has reduced the region 's share of Scotland 's total population from about 20 per cent in the mid-eighteenth century to about 5 per cent today . |
| 16 | THE ELECTION has now become so thunderingly dull that I believe the viewing ratings on telly have never been lower . |