Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 2 | According to Prof Friel , who left home in 1968 to work in England , self-confidence among Derry people has only emerged in the last few years . |
| 3 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 4 | The use of oils in the kitchen has greatly increased in the last few decades , influenced by foreign travel and the subsequent awareness of international cuisine . |
| 5 | The party has scarcely advanced in the last 20 years , and its brave new policy of ‘ independence in Europe ’ has proved a fine slogan , but not a convincing one . |
| 6 | Which is hooey ; for when the thumping result is announced , the House burst into a blast of clapping , happy as a choral society that has just flown through the last tricky chorus . |
| 7 | Whatever its merits , however , it will have to live in the shadow of W T Stearn , whose magisterial Stearn 's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners is already out in a revised edition ( Cassell , 1992 , £16.99 , 0 304 34149 5 ) , and whose Botanical Latin has just appeared in a 4th edition ( David & Charles , £25 0 7153 0052 0 ) . |
| 8 | John Wriglesworth , the housing analyst at UBS , a Swiss bank , estimates that the stock of unsold homes has already fallen by a third over the past year . |
| 9 | MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load ! |
| 10 | Costco has already put in a second application to answer some of the criticisms . |
| 11 | The proportion of old people living in cold homes has hardly changed over the last 20 years despite improvements in living conditions , a report shows . |
| 12 | Includes every cricketer who has ever played in a first class match in the British Isles . |
| 13 | Anatoly Guljaev , managing director of Novosibirsk-based Utilex CT , says the economic vitality of the Novosibirsk region has noticeably declined in the last three years . |
| 14 | It has usually occurred by the fourteenth year but the age may vary very considerably from woman to woman and with bodily circumstance . |
| 15 | Such parties are becoming rare , and the winter population has probably declined during the last decade . |
| 16 | The company has also embarked on a second phase of building at Port Clarence , near Stockton , providing cheap housing . |
| 17 | The rain has really struck in the last six weeks . |
| 18 | And the price of big houses like that has really plummeted in the last year . |
| 19 | Work has now commenced on the second and third full English editions . |
| 20 | The population of Hanoi has almost doubled over the last 30 years , but inadequate planning and sanitation measures during the expansion of the city have resulted in chronic subsidence and drainage problems . |
| 21 | THE number of under-25s who have taken drugs in Britain has almost doubled in the last three years . |
| 22 | The study reveals that the numbers excluded for a fixed short period ( up to five days ) has almost doubled in the last three years . |
| 23 | The Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines , ZCCM , will be asked to pay for the environmental damage it has allegedly caused for the last 24 years , under the terms of the recently-approved Environment and Pollution Act . |
| 24 | Unemployment over the decade has been a disaster though the total has steadily fallen in the last two years . |
| 25 | Wolves provide Bull , who has yet to play in the First Division , with passes over the midfield and crosses from overlapping full-backs . |
| 26 | Rozario finding Collimore , that 's a great turn by Collimore my word the shot has actually gone into the second tier of the stand behind the goal . |
| 27 | Trooper Paul Martin from Durham City said : ‘ It was a bit harsh at 2am but we 've recovered and our drill has certainly improved in the last 24 hours . ’ |
| 28 | Our largest vole , the water vole , is very active at the moment as its breeding season will have just started in the last few weeks . |
| 29 | This may have partly contributed to the next important influence which has been brought to bear on hearing children read — the move towards parental involvement . |
| 30 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |