Example sentences of "since the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their 1st runs at the end of 1981 were witnessed by scenes not seen since the end of steam when literally thousands either embarked on farewell trips or crowded platform ends for a last glimpse of the 3,300hp machines that were as popular as the LNER Gresley steam Pacifics they replaced . |
| 2 | England 's change of captaincy since the end of the summer and the make-up of their various winter tour squads suggests a belief a that hard work is the first component in the rehabilitation plan . |
| 3 | For the first time since the end of the Falklands war there was , also , a less than total confidence among ministers in the certainty of the coming victory at the polls . |
| 4 | All the findings of opinion polls and other surveys suggested that the overwhelming majority of ordinary citizens were convinced that the period of their nation 's history through which they had lived in the forty-odd years since the end of the war in 1945 , was a time of comfort and content . |
| 5 | Privacy ; Erika longed for it herself , often , but it occurred to her , for the first time , that her mother might long for it , too , might want it and , indeed , need it , and it dawned on her , also for the first time , that her mother had never had any privacy since the end of the War ; that all her life since then she had lived in small apartments , actually in one small room for long periods , and sharing even that room with others … . |
| 6 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 7 | Rugby has been played in the Soviet Union since the end of the last century when a Scottish businessman organised a game between expatriates in Moscow . |
| 8 | It 's about collison of cultures in Britain since the end of the war , and it looks at the way that some artists of non-British origin have come to terms with modern art — or , rather , have made a personal art by calling on ways of expression that might have been absolutely native to them in other countries than this . |
| 9 | Suez , in 1956 , may have been a buoy in the main stream of British history , marking the end of empire and the beginning of the post-imperial era , but the course taken by Britain when rounding that buoy was based upon her experiences since the end of the Second World War . |
| 10 | For the first time since the end of censorship , the Polish press ( long plagued by communist traditions of slanted reporting ) conducted a public argument neutrally and eloquently . |
| 11 | It is the first time since the end of the second world war that the Japanese navy has ventured overseas . |
| 12 | But Japan 's reserves have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of 1988 . |
| 13 | Originally this was merely a method of putting pressure upon the tenant , but the distrainer has had , since the end of the seventeenth century , a power to sell the goods and so pay himself , the surplus ( if any ) going to the owner . |
| 14 | The hotels were dingy and British Transport Hotels had added only one new building to their stock since the end of the Second World War . |
| 15 | Provident societies , often connected with home buying , had existed since the end of the eighteenth century ; in 1872 a Provident Knowledge Society was established ‘ for the promotion of thrift among the lower classes ’ , who were encouraged to contribute to penny banks and post-office savings . |
| 16 | The existence of Dolphin Square , easily the largest erection of its kind in Europe , owed itself to the general run-down of the British Army since the end of the war . |
| 17 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 18 | All but one of the seventeen MPs mentioned in the preceding three paragraphs had attended Eton , but the proportion of Etonians on the Conservative benches has been dropping steadily ever since the end of the Second World War . |
| 19 | More or less since the end of the Second World War , Karajan had been fascinated by the challenge of music on film . |
| 20 | In Tokyo , the Nikkei stock index lost 644.82 to close at 17,791.55 , its lowest since the end of 1986 . |
| 21 | The price of North Sea oil has recovered by $1 a barrel since the end of 1991 . |
| 22 | As the youngest Prime Minister this century , he is on course to lead the Tories to an historic fourth term in power — something not achieved since the end of the Napoleonic wars . |
| 23 | Ever since the end of the second world war , France had endeavoured to absorb the Saar area into their country , but in 1957 , it was returned to the Federal Republic of West Germany , and following the signing of the Treaty of Rome by the original six countries , in March 1957 , the European Economic Council was created and the Federal Republic was allowed to join the E.E.C . |
| 24 | Due to the greater degree of nationalisation which had taken place throughout Western Europe since the end of the war , it was discovered , in 1960 , that approximately forty per cent of the labour force was employed by the various governments . |
| 25 | British Coal has made enormous progress in increasing productivity since the end of the 1985 strike — but there is still further to go . |
| 26 | We have also developed a thriving network of polytechnics , whose student numbers have increased nearly sixfold since the end of the 1960s . |
| 27 | She has had fifty governments since the end of the war , many of them dominated by the same personalities and the same political party . |
| 28 | The soils , however , are of relatively recent origin , having formed since the end of the glacial epoch when the pre-existing soils and regolith were destroyed . |
| 29 | There had to be some political acceptance both inside the country and , more importantly , outside , because since the end of the Cold War military take-overs were met increasingly by an immediate freeze of foreign aid . |
| 30 | ‘ Many bishops in Latin America , Asia , and Africa , since the end of the Council , have exercised this prophetic role vigorously , denouncing political disappearances , torture , economic exploitation , and racism perpetrated by authoritarian regimes in their countries . ’ |