Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 2 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 3 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 4 | It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures . |
| 5 | Most of these options have been closed out in the last two decades . |
| 6 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 7 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 8 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 9 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 10 | Salisbury had been laid out in the thirteenth century , rather in the fashion of the twentieth century garden cities . |
| 11 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 12 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 13 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 14 | By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence . |
| 15 | Stone carvings and whimsies had been plastered over in the nineteenth century , but some had now been uncovered . |
| 16 | The lay-out of the town had been established back in the twelfth century when a new market place had replaced the old , congested commercial area alongside the church . |