Example sentences of "it have [be] since " in BNC.

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1 In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder .
2 A pink winter cherry Prunus subhirtella autumnalis rosea , which was a birthday present years ago , is still flowering , as it has been since November .
3 And a lot of psychological research is devoted , as it has been since the 1950s , to disproving unfounded suppositions of black subjects ' inferiority in these areas .
4 However , with all these reservations and qualifications noted there is a city called Tyneside and in 1989 North Shields is part of it as it always has been and Cramlington is as it has been since the early 1970s .
5 It was substantially enlarged from £30 million per annum to about £125 million per annum , and was transferred from the Home Office ( where it had been since 1968 ) to the Department of the Environment .
6 For Nestor , it was a courageous near-miss , an almost-historic encore that placed Canada closer to the final eight than it had been since 1913 ( when Canada made the Challenge round final — with only nine countries competing ) .
7 Between 1950 and 1975 the female proportion of the working population rose from 33 per cent ( which it had been since the 1890s ) to over 40 per cent ( Hunt , 1975 ) .
8 Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes .
9 When Scarlet attempted to disagree , albeit feebly , Constance cited the scandals in the City and pointed out that the gap between the highest- and the lowest-paid was greater now than it had been since the nineteenth century .
10 Her mousy hair had been bleached by the sun to a more nearly-blonde than it had been since her childhood , and her skin was very brown .
11 The VP , however , remained the dominant force in Vanuatu politics as it had been since independence , and won all five by-elections in December 1989 caused by the resignations of the Sope faction after the leadership struggle .
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