Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [v-ing] since [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That increase resulted in the rest of the world overtaking the European Community , whose investment had been falling since 1987 , reaching an all-time low in 1991 , with a share of just over 3 per cent . |
| 2 | The campaign has been running since 1963 and the object has been to encourage private or business premises to install some form of floral display . |
| 3 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 4 | The GHS has been running since 1972 and is a large-scale survey designed to meet the information needs of a variety of different government departments . |
| 5 | ‘ Stand-to ’ , and a steady drizzle has been falling since 3 a.m . |
| 6 | Though a draft directive has been circulating since 1984 it passed its final stages rapidly . |
| 7 | To offer a perhaps extreme example , the Gloucestershire clothiers who celebrated the completing in 1779 – 82 of the Stroudwater Canal had been trying since 1730 to intercept the coal supplies moving down the Severn from the pits of the Midlands . |
| 8 | The DKBS workshops have been running since 1985 and were operated under Alvey Directorate as part of the Alvey IKBS initiative . |
| 9 | The Service has been operating since 1987 , and began distance radio training straight away , followed in 1989 by print journalism . |
| 10 | It is hoped to achieve the 15% reduction in staffing by the employment of temporary staff as vacancies occur and this policy has been operating since 1 April 1992 . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman might like to know that last year saw record levels of exports from this country and that our share of manufactured exports in world trade has been rising since 1984 . |
| 12 | Funding Silotank has been operating since last year , but was officially opened yesterday at a reception attended by representatives of the organisations which have supplied funding for the venture . |
| 13 | The Interior Ministry announced on May 22 that increasing unrest was the preliminary stage of a military coup which the banned Islamic fundamentalist Nahda movement had been preparing since 1988 . |
| 14 | The C & p approach has been developing since 1988 . |
| 15 | After more than a decade of decline , the numbers have been rising since 1985 . |
| 16 | The scheme has been running since 1986 and won a similar CIMA award in 1988 . |
| 17 | The scheme has been running since 1975 and has included the designs of A R Penck , Matazo Kayama and the pop artist , Andy Warhol . |
| 18 | At the heart of System 10 will be a new version of the Sybase SQL Server , the core database server that the company has been shipping since 1987 , which is now out at around some 6,500 sites worldwide . |
| 19 | At the heart of System 10 sits the Sybase SQL Server 10 product , basically the core database server which the company has been shipping since 1987 , and now out at around 5,000 sites worldwide . |
| 20 | At the heart of System 10 will be a new version of the Sybase SQL Server , the core database server which the company has been shipping since 1987 , and now out at around some 6,500 sites worldwide . |
| 21 | The company has been trading since 1876 and staff say they 'd always thought the firm was financially successful . |
| 22 | The company have been trading since 1897 . |
| 23 | Many reports , and particularly the Black Report and the more recent Health Education Council ‘ The Health Divide ’ have used the relationship between occupational class and death rates over time to demonstrate that inequalities in health between socio-economic groups have been increasing since 1951 and perhaps since 1931 . |
| 24 | Do you realise that those four or five women from the RVH have been fighting since 1984 for some sort of fairness and equality in their pay ? |