Example sentences of "[verb] since the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Eardley was — with the Cornishman Peter Lanyon , who also died cruelly young — the most important British landscape painter to appear since the Second World War . |
| 2 | Aspiration of a foreign body during use of an inhaler has been infrequently reported since the first report in 1981 . |
| 3 | The use of long-stay hospitals for the care of the mentally handicapped stems from successive policies of containment pursued since the last century , and which have persisted into the 1980s despite the widespread understanding that it is wrong for mentally handicapped people , who are not ill and do not require advanced medical treatment , to spend their entire lives within the confines of a large establishment which is primarily concerned with medical treatment and the cure of the sick . |
| 4 | For example , medicine ran to 80 pages , whereas the schedule for chemical technology had hardly been modified since the second edition . |
| 5 | It lets you back up ( and restore ) whole disks or selected files and/or directories — including the option to back up only files that have modified since the last run . |
| 6 | John Charlton had not moved since the first encounter . |
| 7 | Many of these features of the modern world were only the surface manifestations of the much greater structural changes begun in early industrialism and accelerated since the Second World War . |
| 8 | Another distinctive type of patinated metalwork , known as bidri , has been made since the seventeenth century or earlier and is produced in India to this day ( fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 9 | Only the west Siberian Tatars , as Muslims in touch with Bukhara and other Islamic centres of Central Asia , were familiar with Koranic Arabic , while the Buryat Mongols east of Lake Baikal used classical Mongolian , written since the thirteenth century in a vertical script , and later , as a result of conversion to Buddhism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , received its scriptures in Tibetan . |
| 10 | Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell 's ARC team has grown since the first event in 1986 . |
| 11 | He had ten varieties of carrot in the ground when I visited , including a purple carrot that has not been grown since the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | Thus one human produces about 2 x 10 10 E. coli per day , almost all freshly grown since the last defecation . |
| 13 | Such pains and miseries as they did not feel , they acted out : acting , indeed , at this level of ham had not been seen since the last World Cup , or the Peter O'Toole Macbeth . |
| 14 | South Cave is divided into two distinct parts , separated since the 18th century by the grounds of the Barnard family house , now known as Cave Castle Golf Hotel . |
| 15 | Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage . |
| 16 | Most had been forced to sell their private woodlands , which had been reverently preserved since the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | These conclusions are reinforced by Curve B , which represents the frequency and length of conflicts that have occurred since the Second World War . |
| 18 | I think it is tough for BD because the midfield have their own way of playing which they 've had since the first season back , and Chapman knew where to be cos they built it round him . |
| 19 | Gilding , silvering and tinning ( all involving the application of a thin layer of metal on to another metal ) have been used since the third millennium BC for decorative or practical purposes and also for deception . |
| 20 | Of more than 16000 heart transplantations performed since the first human to human operation in 1967 , over 1700 patients survived more than 5 years after surgery . |
| 21 | Several hundred have been produced since the 18th century explorers brought more foreign languages into contact — and friction . |
| 22 | It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century . |
| 23 | But there have been significant changes in the nature of stealing since the Second World War . |
| 24 | Occupying more empyrean regions , it is equally safe to say , are the series of mezzotints produced in the early nineteenth century by a collaboration between John Constable and David Lucas , an ex-farmhand who re-invigorated the mezzotint technique — known since the seventeenth century — by replacing copper plates with steel . |
| 25 | One in the British Museum ( fig. 77 ) has been known since the eighteenth century and is called the Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo after a former owner . |
| 26 | They have been well known since the eighteenth century , when Stukeley recorded a stone wall fronted by a ditch 15 m ( 49 ft ) wide . |
| 27 | About 90 per cent of wildflower-rich meadows have disappeared since the Second World War due to intensive agriculture and drainage . |
| 28 | Brief site visits are not sufficient to supervise work effectively and the surveyor must ensure that adequate time is set aside when on site to look closely at the work executed since the last inspection . |
| 29 | Edward 's protection of his servants from excommunication — tenants-in-chief had been exempted since the twelfth century — applied not only to those servants who were permanently in his employment , but even to those on ad hoc commissions . |
| 30 | Excavations have been continuing since the eighteenth century , and in the early years much was lost in plundering and in destruction by lack of knowledge of the work . |