Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 2 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 3 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 4 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 5 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 6 | In Western Europe this change has been located anywhere between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 7 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 8 | NCD claims to have shipped 25.9% of the 96,610 X-terminals thought to have been installed worldwide during the first six months of this year . |
| 9 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 10 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 11 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 12 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 13 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 14 | A spokesman for the Northern Constabulary at Inverness denied the accusations of harassment but confirmed that the site had been visited twice in the last few days and that several people had been charged . |
| 15 | The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's |
| 16 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 17 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 18 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 19 | In parts of the West Country and the South , much of the land had been enclosed long before the fifteenth century , whereas in some of the northern counties the movement did not get under way until late in the sixteenth . |
| 20 | BRITISH hopes of returning to normalcy in negotiations with China over the future of Hong Kong appeared to have been thwarted yesterday as the 14th round of Sino-British talks ended with only limited signs of progress . |
| 21 | The shop had been going since before the Second World War . |
| 22 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 23 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 24 | This method has been used only in the twentieth century . |
| 25 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 26 | That there were chemically different gases had been shown earlier in the 18th century . |
| 27 | There was also the sensitive question of returning land to ethnic Germans and Hungarians , whose land had been expropriated immediately after the Second World War as punishment for their alleged collaboration with the Nazi occupiers . |
| 28 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 29 | This has been recognised periodically since the 17th century . |
| 30 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |