Example sentences of "[conj] since [num] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another interesting fact is that , although since 1989 the number of books published has not diminished , the average print run has . |
| 2 | At this point there was no conception of ‘ slum clearance ’ of purpose-built council dwellings , although since 1980 the authority has in fact demolished dwellings at Dockwray Square , Killing worth Towers , Hunter 's Close and elsewhere . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that since 1979 the Government have introduced more training places and a wider range of training courses both in width and in depth , in a way that has never been attempted before ? |
| 4 | I remind the House that since 1979 the Government have approved over £7.5 billion of new investment and have provided for grant aid of about £17 billion to the industry . |
| 5 | Is the Prime Minister aware that since 1979 the crime figures in England and Wales have gone up by 102 per cent. , that in the north of England they have gone up by 123 per cent . |
| 6 | In 1912 it was estimated that since 1886 the Commission had purchased only 60,000 hectares of Polish-owned land and 100,000 hectares of German land in Poznania and West Prussia . |
| 7 | They take this view because they are alive to the fact that since 1935 no government has been elected by a majority of the electorate and secured 50 per cent of the popular vote . |
| 8 | The Lost Land , published by the Council for the Protection of Rural England , estimates that since 1945 a total of 1,500,000 hectares has been lost . |
| 9 | The White Paper recognised that since 1981 the number of juveniles under 17 given custodial sentences , had fallen by more than 50 per cent , and there is no evidence that the reduction in custodial sentences has increased juvenile crime ( 174,000 known juvenile offenders was reduced to 119,000 in 1988 ) . |
| 10 | He also said the Government was spending more on law and order and pointed out that since 1984 the length of prison sentences had increased by 31pc for robbery and 73pc for rape . |
| 11 | In fact the numbers of female motorists has risen sharply over the past few years and since 1987 the number has almost doubled . |
| 12 | However , concern has been caused by the fact that between 1976 and 1989 the ratio of debt to personal disposable income rose from 50% to over 100% ( BEQB May 1989 ) , and since 1980 the growth in credit has substantially exceeded the growth in income . |
| 13 | These are becoming increasingly important and since 1990 the law is much more flexible in terms of the criteria to be satisfied before a unit can become a trading fund . |
| 14 | But since 1987 the message has remained the same : ‘ Drinking and driving wrecks lives . ’ |
| 15 | This old yellow-brown , black-muzzled breed from the Poitou region numbered 728,000 in 1932 , but since 1945 the breed has been declining rapidly and by 1977 there were only 35,000 ; three years later the population had dropped to about 20,000 . |
| 16 | But since 1961 a question has been asked to list all educational qualifications , and the General Household Survey and the cohort studies now provide additional information . |
| 17 | They will vote for a fourth Conservative Government , because since 1979 the record of the current Government and their predecessors in regard to Wales has been excellent . |