Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD . |
| 2 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 3 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 4 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 8 | In Western Europe this change has been located anywhere between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 9 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 10 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 14 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 15 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 16 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 19 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 20 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 21 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 22 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 28 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 29 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 30 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |