Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [v-ing] since " in BNC.
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1 | Livingston 's latest results are already telling us something new ; he has found that the Sun 's temperature ( and thus brightness ) reached a minimum in the summer of 1981 , but has been gradually increasing since then . |
2 | The expenditure involved with election campaigns has been rapidly increasing since 1976 . |
3 | PC-NFS 4.0 , on the other hand , has been quietly shipping since March 19 , but SunSelect , a beta site for Windows 3.1 , could n't announce it until Microsoft officially unveiled 3.1 at Comdex . |
4 | He imagined bone-wrenching exercises and an accelerated real-food diet , such as had been distinctly lacking since his father 's shaming . |
5 | That domination brought a unity to the north which had been notably lacking since the end of the previous century . |
6 | That domination brought a unity to the north which had been notably lacking since the end of the previous century . |
7 | Deng Xiaoping , China 's " elder statesman " leader , had considerable success during March in his effort to reinforce the reformist line which he had been actively promoting since early January . |
8 | Numbers have been gradually declining since the 1970s . |