Example sentences of "been [verb] in 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 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | New signings David James and Paul Stewart have further strengthened a strong squad that has been rejuvenated in the last year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The graph to the right shows that house prices have been falling in the last year or so , after 11 years of rises . |
| 9 | But it 's , it 's a nice homely it 's all been refurbished in the last year . |