Example sentences of "been [verb] during the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market . |
| 2 | As we come to the end of this Parliament , will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to give us some insight into the Government 's long-term policy which has been formulated during the past 13 years ? |
| 3 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 4 | She must be losing her marbles , because she 'd absolutely no recollection of what had been happening during the past few minutes … ! |
| 5 | A characteristic of automatic performance is an apparent loss of memory for what has been done during the previous few moments . |
| 6 | Significant changes have been made during the past few months . |
| 7 | Here and there minor changes in field boundaries may have been made during the past 150 or 200 years , but on the whole the enclosure map lays down the present-day pattern exactly . |
| 8 | Composing himself , Sir Michael pressed on : ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend reflect on the great progress that has been made during the last 10 years in the well-being of our country and the competitiveness of our industries and … |
| 9 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 10 | In our Galaxy , only four have been seen during the last thousand years : in 1006 , 1054 , 1572 and 1604 , but there is no knowing when we will see another . |
| 11 | South African breeders are now concentrating on increasing its size and weight for age and it has been exported during the past 80 years to most beef-producing countries , especially in southern and eastern Africa . |
| 12 | Yet in 1988 , the management consortium sold the company to Volvo of Sweden for £15 million claiming that the business had been restructured during the previous two years , but that the ‘ key to success in this business is to be a world player ’ . |
| 13 | At a Sept. 5 news conference Afewerki accused France , Egypt and Saudi Arabia of fostering " conflict on the borders and the blackmail we have been facing during the past three months " . |
| 14 | According to EPS figures released on May 28 , a total of 12,627 recontras and 9,278 recompas had been demobilized during the first two phases and 22,197 infantry weapons and 215 support weapons had been currently destroyed . |
| 15 | The second criticism is that though public expenditure and public employment have been reduced during the last five years , this has not resulted in any upsurge of employment in the marketed sector . |
| 16 | Many manufacturing industries have been destocking during the past few years but now that is slowing down . |
| 17 | Frances Donaghy of the RCN in Northern Ireland said 2,000 beds had been removed during the past four years yet hospitals were still handling the same volume of patients . |
| 18 | Exports to the USA had , however , been impeded during the late 1980s by US obstacles , placed in retaliation against ‘ unfair practices ’ . |
| 19 | The statistics for ’ dangerous occurrences ’ show that they have been increasing during the past few years — so there is no ground for complacency . |
| 20 | Most confessions at the police holding centres have been signed during the first two days of custody . |
| 21 | Nor , normally , can an accounting reference period be extended if it has already been extended during the previous five years . |
| 22 | Another change of direction — rather than building and extending what has been been achieved during the past few years — could lead to yet another thoroughly dispiriting time for patients , and for those who work in the NHS . |
| 23 | Over the next year or so , my constituents will see tremendous improvements , on top of what has been achieved during the last 12 to 18 months in terms of the quality and quantity of health care that they will receive from the Basildon and Thurrock NHS trust . |
| 24 | Nearly 100,000 jobs have already been lost during the past two years and 123,000 more are in danger . |
| 25 | Even though the continuous assessment , course-work elements will have been graded during the preceding two years , the marks will be put together and the final grade awarded at this one time . |
| 26 | The murder had been ordered by Hendrique , for whom Kyle had been working during the last five years . |
| 27 | The Games and Hello-Goodbye had all been released during the previous nine months . |