Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |
| 2 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 3 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 4 | It did not help the Irish , either , that they may well have been winding down after the Five Nations Championship whereas New Zealand 's players were hitting top gear with early-season All Black trials . |
| 5 | Wycliffe had been booked in at the one hotel which remained open through the year . |
| 6 | ‘ I think that is a just reward for the work which has been carried out over the two years following our restructure . |
| 7 | Much research on children 's explanations of scientific events has been carried out since the 1970s . |
| 8 | Studies of pause patterns in speech have been carried out since the 1950s . |
| 9 | It is no longer enough to divide the records into two groups , and the analysis has been carried out on the nine separate groups of records responsible for 10 per cent , 20 per cent , 30 per cent … , 90 per cent packing . |
| 10 | Ms Capaldi said a considerable amount of work on data had been carried out in the five months since the report was published . |
| 11 | Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research . |
| 12 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 13 | The co-ordinator , Thijs Kuiken , said that the inadequacy of present knowledge had been shown up by the 1989 viral epidemic which killed thousands of seals . |
| 14 | The tribunal , which had been set up under the 1981 Algiers Accord , had yet to determine the exact sum of compensation to be paid . |
| 15 | LGCM had been set up in the 1970s ; it rented a room in St Botolph 's , Aldgate , a church well-known for work with single homeless people in London . |
| 16 | The centre 's manager , Peter Struthers , said last night : ‘ Since we lost George , my wife Ann and myself had paid numerous visits to pet shops over a wide area , on the off chance that he had been brought along by the two thieves . |
| 17 | His government would be committed " at the first stage " to " autonomy and the five-year interim period " which had been spelled out in the 1978 Camp David accords . |
| 18 | During talks on Feb. 2 the two sides agreed to resume border trade which had been cut off since the 1962 Sino-Indian War . |
| 19 | The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations . |
| 20 | The Doctor had explained that in 1969 a man had walked on the moon ; that unmanned space flights to other stars had been sent out in the 1970s and towards the end of the twentieth century manned space flights had visited other planets in the solar system . |