Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 2 | She knew her character had altered completely over the last few years . |
| 3 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 4 | Runcorn had fallen behind in the 19th minute but were unlucky to go in only level at the break through Steve Shaughnessy 's brilliantly taken equaliser - a flashing near post header from a cross by right back Jamie Bates . |
| 5 | Pat Archer , of the county council 's transportation department , said the problem had dropped slightly in the second half of last term . |
| 6 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 7 | But after all , he had come far in the last few months . |
| 8 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 9 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 10 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 11 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 12 | His main findings were that 51 per cent had left employment in the destination area at some stage during the twelve-month period , most of these had returned to their area of origin and that 75 per cent of those who left the destination area had done so within the first ten weeks . |
| 13 | The population of Europe , including Russia , had grown steadily since the seventeenth century , and continued to do so after 1880 . |
| 14 | Yonder , the town , had grown enormously during the last twenty years . |
| 15 | The income from customs dues , which had risen sharply in the first year of the reign , thanks to Mary 's reforms , was remarkably sluggish thereafter . |
| 16 | The Polytechnic had argued convincingly in the first round that to have done so then would have simply involved the NAB in steering its ‘ service ’ work around . |
| 17 | The police reported that a number of fires — believed to be malicious had ignited simultaneously on the fourth floor . |
| 18 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 19 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 20 | At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house . |
| 21 | By the late 1930s the argument had swung emphatically towards the first of these two aspects of the idea . |
| 22 | He had gone halfway across the first field when he heard a cry behind him . |
| 23 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |
| 24 | Domestic demand had increased dramatically in the fourth quarter of 1989 as a result of the influx of East German immigrants . |
| 25 | Corporate partnerships in engineering , electronics and computing , especially involving West Germany which accounted for 120 such partnerships , had increased sharply in the first half of 1990 . |
| 26 | And getting rid of an unwelcome ruler would not actually be novel ; it had happened twice in the fifteenth century , to James I and James III . |
| 27 | Sellafield 's Assistant Director , Projects and Decommissioning , , presented the prizes and paid tribute to organisers who had worked tirelessly from the first tee-off at 7.30 am to the presentation of the final raffle prize at 10.30 pm . |
| 28 | Although Eisenhower and Churchill had worked together in the Second World War as military commander and prime minister , Churchill had now to remember that Eisenhower was president of the world 's greatest power . |
| 29 | He had aged considerably over the last few months , and though he protested he was fit , healthy and perfectly capable of taking care of the kids while I got a job , I had my doubts . |
| 30 | Gloucester after Saturday 's match at Kingsholm were left feeling just as impotent and just as confounded after Bath had stormed away in the last five minutes of extra time to win this semi-final . |