Example sentences of "has [verb] in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several other systems , regionally important , ethnically , culturally and/or theologically based but none has , as yet , had the pervasive success that capitalism has enjoyed in the twentieth century . |
| 2 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 3 | The transmitted message contains details of all that the satellite has to do in the next period , in particular to implement the survey . |
| 4 | Here it is time to turn to a consideration of what has become in the last decade , and is still as I write , perhaps the single most popular learning model in the trade today . |
| 5 | In the conventional view , Britain , once a legend throughout the world for its stolid , peaceable , and harmonious character , has experienced in the last decade and a half an alien and shocking advent of unprecedented incivility and disorder . |
| 6 | As part of our continuing review of quality systems , we are completing an evaluation of the way the new system has worked in the first year . |
| 7 | The influence of pressure groups in the political process has waned in the last decade , largely because the Conservative Party , and indeed many electors , took against the relationship between the Labour government and the trade unions in the 1970s in which the unions had seemed to exercise excessive influence over the government . |
| 8 | The problem for modern Marxists , however , is that the objective laws which Marx had developed to predict the way in which the capitalist system would develop do not seem to have fully explained what has happened in the twentieth century . |
| 9 | Well what , of course , has happened in the last generation or two is the growth of poetry readings . |
| 10 | ‘ Too much has happened in the last year , ’ he said , ‘ and too much change around a candidate is not wise . ’ |
| 11 | Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup . |
| 12 | It is an essential element in the planning cycle to measure the effects of the advertising , as far as possible , together with those of other types of marketing activity , in order to take account of what has happened in the next phase of planning . |
| 13 | A national conference in March 1980 , organised by the Women and Housing Group , attracted 200 women , and a women-only housing co-operative has started in the last couple of years to house its members . |
| 14 | Spaniard Martin Vasquez , back with Real Madrid after an unhappy few months at the Velodrome , has left in the last year or so along with Chris Waddle , Trevor Steven , Dragan Stojkovic , Eric Cantona and £10 million Jean-Pierre Papin . |
| 15 | In the years following the violence of the Mexican revolution , great attention was paid to the content of education , in an attempt to involve the young in the principles of the revolution , but this emphasis has declined in the second half of the century . |
| 16 | The incidence of many congenital malformations has declined in the last decade thanks to advances in screening coverage ( see Carter 1983 , Royal College of Physicians 1989 ) and techniques , and wider knowledge of the availability of abortion . |
| 17 | But the poll shows 82 per cent feel moral values have declined and 83 per cent think young people 's behaviour has declined in the last decade . |
| 18 | It also contained her unconscious valedictory : As a Catholic observer who has lived in the Third World for nearly 30 years , I have followed developments in the Church , at times with despair but mostly with optimism . |
| 19 | The aim of the project is to document and interpret the complex relationship between gender roles , family structures and marriage ceremonial and the ways each has changed in the twentieth century . |
| 20 | To gain an understanding of the persistence and excellence of black sportsmen , the analysis has to begin in the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | ‘ This connection is particularly important at the current time when we know the numbers of women on low income has doubled in the last decade . ’ |