Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] the [num ord] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defence Ministry announced on July 16 that 71 members of the armed forces had been dismissed in the last year for human rights abuses and drug trafficking . |
| 2 | Two projects in the area of personal and social development have been completed within the last year : |
| 3 | ‘ How many patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have been discharged in the last year to a hostel or shelter rather than to a home of their own ? ’ |
| 4 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 5 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 6 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 7 | In the intervening year , nothing has been done to right the wrongs of the decade , so what profit has been gleaned in the first year of the new leadership of the Conservative party ? |
| 8 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 9 | The money has been raised during the last year by the Mayor 's charity . |
| 10 | New signings David James and Paul Stewart have further strengthened a strong squad that has been rejuvenated in the last year . |
| 11 | At the time of the survey there was no drama specialist on the staff , although a drama/English teacher had been appointed for the next year . |
| 12 | Nearly all the leading contenders have all been eliminated over the last year or so . |
| 13 | All costs are expressed in 1989/90 prices , and where costs have been incurred beyond the first year , then the Treasury 's recommended discount rate of 6% has been applied to obtain a present value estimate . |
| 14 | The purchaser will need to prepare listing particulars unless listing particulars have been issued in the last year or the consideration shares will comprise less than 10 per cent of the listed shares after they have been issued . |
| 15 | The graph to the right shows that house prices have been falling in the last year or so , after 11 years of rises . |
| 16 | More than 55 females , from babies to elderly women , have been killed during the first year of the Uprising ; shot dead with live ammunition , rubber and plastic bullets ; suffocated with tear gas and some have been beaten to death . |
| 17 | But it 's , it 's a nice homely it 's all been refurbished in the last year . |