Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] since [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With any luck they will be right , at least in the form in which co-ordination has been practised since 1985 . |
| 2 | In the event , few new Irish peerages have been created since 1800 , and no election has been held since 1922 when the Irish Free State came into being . |
| 3 | The recommendation will be put by the ITF 's Rules of Tennis Committee to the Committee of Management in Paris in June and if accepted , it will travel to the Dominican Republic in September for presentation to the ITF Annual General Meeting , where , if it receives a ⅔ majority from delegates in attendance , it will become the first time that a new rule has been introduced since 1989 , when the tie break was standardised . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They had no reason to lack confidence in their own assessment — Holland was the home of Fokker and KLM had been established since 1919 , each company producing generations of highly competent aeronautical engineers . |
| 6 | Examination results for secondary schools have been published since 1982 , as a result of the 1980 Act . |
| 7 | Only three pesticides have been approved since 1990 , although legislation was passed in 1985 . |
| 8 | Political parties have been banned since 1957 , but the Moslem Brotherhood has charitable status and is therefore exempt from the ban . |
| 9 | Surveys of radon in UK homes have been done since 1976 about 24000 homes will have been tested . |
| 10 | The report estimates that about 234,000 shells have been imported since 1981 . |
| 11 | Although 24 large conference complexes have been built since 1975 and 22 new centres are expected within the next five years , hotels are still well placed to cater for conference business , as shown by the following table : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Obviously the law has been updated since eighteen ninety three . |
| 14 | No party of more than three Black-necked Grebes has been noted since 1960 , and most reports are now of single birds ; these occur inland about as often as do Slavonian Grebes . |
| 15 | gold 's value has been maintained over the centuries due to the limited quantity of new supplies ( maximum output , at the present time , 1,000 tonnes per annum ) , only about 100,000 tonnes having been mined since 4,000 BC ; |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Unit Trusts have been allowed since 1985 to operate across EC borders . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Stand-to ’ , and a steady drizzle has been falling since 3 a.m . |
| 20 | Though a draft directive has been circulating since 1984 it passed its final stages rapidly . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Gasoline had been rationed since 1978 , when oil output was reported so low that domestic needs could not be met . |
| 23 | Seven coastguard stations have been closed since 1979 , leaving 21 stations to cover 6,000 miles of coast . |
| 24 | 1 : In the U.S. — home of nuclear technology — no new nuclear power stations have been ordered since 1978 , principally on grounds of cost . |
| 25 | The DKBS workshops have been running since 1985 and were operated under Alvey Directorate as part of the Alvey IKBS initiative . |
| 26 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service how many senior civil service appointments subject to prime ministerial approval have been made since 1979 . |
| 27 | No title has been conferred since 1798 . |
| 28 | In Pakistan , salinisation and waterlogging are particularly acute in the Indus Valley where irrigation has been practised since 5 kyr BP ; currently some 15 x 10 6 ha are irrigated by a system that includes the Indus River and its tributaries , 3 storage reservoirs , 19 barrages , 43 canals and 90 000 watercourse systems ( Shanan 1987 ) . |
| 29 | The Wye Raft Race has been run since 1977 and it raises around £100,000 a year for charity . |
| 30 | That kind of art has been forbidden since 1932 . |