Example sentences of "[num] have [be] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One major reason for Japan 's success in coping with the high cost energy environment since 1979 has been the remarkable reduction in oil ( and total energy ) use without sacrificing economic growth . |
| 2 | The most striking change between 1975 and 1988 has been the dramatic fall in youth employment from 60% to 20% . |
| 3 | A major change in the 1980s has been the huge increase in both the choice of lenders and the range of products . |
| 4 | These loans were much larger than anything known before , running into millions when hundreds of thousands had been the previous limit . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom Meteorological Office announced at the end of November 1989 that the 1980s had been the warmest decade worldwide since records had been kept , with six out of 10 of the warmest years since the mid-19th century having occurred during this period . |
| 6 | The main sources of regional tension in the 1980s have been the civil war in El Salvador , where the United States has provided ever-increasing amounts of military aid to a succession of right-wing governments , and the role of the United States and the US-backed Contras in undermining the Sandinista government in Nicaragua . |