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Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
31	The arguments have been well rehearsed over the last year .
32	The melon beds had been virtually deserted for the last two or three days .
33	Full gas fired central heating is installed and the system has been fully overhauled within the last twelve months .
34	As there is no obvious reason why the reservoir should have been adversely affected in the second well , more study is clearly needed in order to understand the distribution of these cements .
35	Jealousy of her friend had been steadily mounting in the last few months .
36	‘ The wisdom of pricing gas at parity with imported oil has thus been officially recognised for the first time in Pakistan , despite being electorally unpopular .
37	The company has been completely transformed in the last few years so that its environmental service now represents more than 80 per cent of its turnover .
38	The ( 348 GT ) Three Four Eight Gee Tee production model has been painstakingly prepared over the last seven weeks .
39	Sister Gemma and I are enjoying our work , and we have been recently joined by the third member of our team , Sister Dorothy Castles , a Notre Dame Sister from the Ipswich Province in America .
40	In some countries , marginal land that was previously heath or moorland , as well as much pasture land , has been recently ploughed for the first time in centuries , with the resulting destruction of many archaeological sites .