Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] since [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty minutes later the Tucker , Higgs and Kelly Cessna glided off the runway at Grand Bahama Island and tip-tilted one hundred and six miles north to the Abacos , cays where Sutherlands had dwelt since 1789 . |
| 2 | The criticism by Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary Robin Cook followed the disclosure by Which ? magazine that some premiums had doubled since 1987 . |
| 3 | No compendium of furniture designs had appeared since 1762 , when Thomas Chippendale [ q.v. ] |
| 4 | A great deal had changed since 1980 , but the general air of enthusiasm that pervades the New Zealand light aviation scene did n't seem to have diminished in the slightest . |
| 5 | However , he said , even a cursory look at the figures showed that what really happened was not so much that Scotland had gained but the rest of the country was now becoming stuck in the kind of economic mess that Scotland had endured since 1979 . |
| 6 | For all that de Castelnau had learned since 1914 , he was still very much a ‘ fighting general ’ of the Foch school . |
| 7 | Manual workers ' expectations of family size had fallen , managerial workers ' expectations had risen since 1945 . |
| 8 | Miloš feared that this would fail and that the reprisals which the Turks might take would result in the loss of all the gains which the Serbs had made since 1815 . |
| 9 | In the village Soviets of the Nikol'skaia volost' 162 out of the 775 households had served since 1917 in some capacity . |
| 10 | There were then 3,688 such schools in England alone , and their record was one of considerable achievement : the staying-on rate had doubled since 1958 , and clear improvement could be noted — for example , in raising standards of reading . |
| 11 | But none are more deeply affected than the PSI , which Craxi had headed since 1976 . |
| 12 | In West Germany the socialist students ' organization , the SDS , had grown into the most successful and radical challenge to the status quo that the state had seen since 1945 . |
| 13 | To avoid political embarrassment Queen Victoria had discouraged her cousin from settling in England but , as a prince of Great Britain , he was buried at St George 's chapel , Windsor , where his Garter banner had hung since 1835 . |
| 14 | As soon as Edouard Balladur was appointed head of the new conservative government in March , he told them that he would be asking for sacrifices to clean up what he claimed was the worst economic mess France had known since 1945 . |
| 15 | Armand Roy , were to be deployed in 10 observation posts on both sides of the " walls of sand " which Morocco had built since 1981 to enclose the two-thirds of the Western Sahara which was under its control . |
| 16 | Concern had grown since 1776 , when a newly independent United States had forged an alliance with France . |
| 17 | Old-style Falangists occupied the ministries associated with social and political control ( Interior , Army , Labour and the Party Secretariat ) , but portfolios connected with the external image of the regime and the assurance of its future ( such as Justice , Foreign Affairs , Education and Public Works ) were assigned to men guided less by rigid ideological concepts than by their awareness that the world had changed since 1945 and that Spain needed to adapt if it was to be counted among the leading nations in the post-war world . |
| 18 | Presenting on July 26 , 1990 , the budget for the year staring July 1 , Finance Minister Chidzero stated that economic performance and living standards had deteriorated since 1982 . |
| 19 | Asserting that the situation had improved since 1990 and that the Serrano government was more highly motivated than the previous administration in promoting respect for human right and bringing the perpetrators of abuses to justice , the report pointed out that the army still failed to co-operate with the police and the judiciary in prosecuting army personnel . |
| 20 | Despite concessions to the Marxist wing of the party — including a reduction in the size of the SDF and a characterization of the 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty as a " temporary " arrangement — the policy , if adopted by the party as a whole , would amount to a considerable revision of the unilateralist defence programme which the SDPJ had maintained since 1955 . |
| 21 | The quake was the biggest tremor Erzincan had known since 1939 , when an earthquake killed 30,000 people . |
| 22 | ( The number had grown since 1832 because of increased wealth and population . ) |
| 23 | It opened the way for the transformation of the European system which Germany had dominated since 1871 . |
| 24 | Finally , the rateable values were out of date as no revaluation had occurred since 1973 . |
| 25 | All these rulers , however , with the exception of the King of Bavaria , confined their greetings to the minimum demanded by courtesy , indicating how far anti-French attitudes had developed since 1860 . |
| 26 | The first factor , the newspaper explained , was not important as no cases had occurred since 1972 , while ‘ the claim that high levels of nitrate cause cancer has yet to be proved . ’ |
| 27 | Merchandise exports had stagnated since 1988 , as Greece lost some of its share of foreign markets in manufactured goods . |
| 28 | In May 1985 , Leon Brittan , then Home Secretary , was booed despite his figures saying that prison officer ranks had increased since 1979 by one-fifth , and that the budget for the Prison Service had risen 85 per cent . |
| 29 | The national income had doubled since 1948 ; in the period 1951–73 , the average annual rate of growth was 2.3 per cent . |
| 30 | But times had changed since 1898 ; wartime regulations had rationed liquor purchases to one bottle per month per customer . |