Example sentences of "[adj] since [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had thought of him as Roman since the first moment she had known his name . |
| 2 | Charles had longed to visit the Basilica in Rome , to see Venice in all its glory ; to walk across the Ponte Vecchio in Florence , virtually unchanged since the sixteenth century , and to visit the villages in the Tuscan hills , intact after hundreds of years . |
| 3 | Certainly in Britain 's case , the economic conditions remain the worst since the last war , with over three million people out of work . |
| 4 | This has been obvious since the seventeenth century . |
| 5 | The interior is lit partly by the 16 windows in each dome which are set above the springing line , but this has been less effective since the thirteenth century when the outer cupolas were constructed . |
| 6 | As Martin Crowe said , after noting that the 50-overs match was New Zealand 's first international since the third Test against Sri Lanka on the same ground over 10 months previously : ‘ I think it was realistic to look at them as favourites , but I was surprised by the margin . ’ |
| 7 | The spa at Evian has been famous since the 18th century as the place to go for the treatment of kidney stones and urinary infections . |
| 8 | The expression has been extinct since the second world war . |
| 9 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 10 | G. Sankoff and Vincent ( 1980 ) in a smaller historical investigation come to a parallel conclusion that stylistically stratified patterns of variable deletion of the negative particle ne in French have changed very little since the sixteenth century , when deletion was associated with informal styles . |
| 11 | The Financial Times of June 28 estimated that manufacturing output in eastern Germany had fallen by about two-thirds since the first half of 1990 . |
| 12 | Used since the 13th century to aid digestion . |
| 13 | Real incomes for farmers have not been lower since the second world war , according to the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 14 | Between the Sidlaw Hills and the Braes of Angus , the red loam of Strathmore has provided healthy cropping and stock-rearing since the twelfth century in spite of disruptive wars and civil strife . |
| 15 | The city had been walled and moated since the thirteenth century . |
| 16 | The street names , he tells us , have stayed the same since the 10th century . |
| 17 | Although these families rose further than any since the sixteenth century , many of the Sussex gentry were caught up in the process of aggrandisement . |
| 18 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 19 | De Gaulle 's foreign policy had restored a level of national self-respect and consensus that had been absent since the First World War . |
| 20 | For example Adrian Thatcher ( 1991 ) takes issue with the emphasis on private individualism which talk of " inwardness " tends to convey , seeing this as based on a radical distinction between what is objective and what is subjective — a distinction which , though very influential since the seventeenth century , is now regarded as mistaken . |
| 21 | THE population of England and Wales has increased by nearly 1.4 million since the last count in 1981 . |
| 22 | The decline in the agricultural labour force , continuous since the nineteenth century , can be observed in all regions , not only in the more remote ones . |
| 23 | The leaders of the Norman Watt ‘ A ’ and ‘ B ’ Ulster 125 and 750 Championships are unbeaten since the first round at Desertmartin . |
| 24 | This year there were 363 starts , the fewest since the second world war . |
| 25 | The River Arun , from Littlehampton on the English Channel to Pulborough in West Sussex , has been navigable since the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | Both Georgians and Armenians have their own independent churches and have been Christian since the fourth century , six centuries before the Russians ; their distinctive languages and alphabets also date from the fourth century . |
| 27 | The enemy has not been very active since the 10th August and I somehow miss the occasional mortar burst in the area , or the odd German shell passing over . |