Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] since the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 2 | Local government spending has fallen significantly since the middle 1970s both as a proportion of state spending and of national income . |
| 3 | The demand for buses has dropped dramatically since the late 1970s and this process has been accelerated by the ending of both the bus grant and revenue support for bus services . |
| 4 | Although we might over-estimate the risk of crime , it has grown steadily since the last century . |
| 5 | While this tendency towards the importance of supplementary education has grown significantly since the 1960s , the enormous priority given by the Japanese to education underpins the significance of meritocratic ideals . |
| 6 | On the other hand , the average value per transaction has risen steeply since the early 1980s ; this reflects both the increasing size of transactions with customers and the fact that modern intra-market business is typically conducted through deals of high value ( over £4m on average in 1991 ) . |
| 7 | The scale of dental charges has risen sharply since the 1970s and now approaches the economic cost . |
| 8 | But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century . |
| 9 | Although we have argued that the patent vein metasomatism observed in the Bultfontein peridotites represents a discrete , short-lived episode corresponding to the eruption of the Cretaceous group I kimberlites , we emphasize that alkaline volcanism on the Kaapvaal craton has occurred periodically since the Archaean era . |
| 10 | The importance of sales promotions has increased steadily since the 1960s , as has the sophistication of methods used . |
| 11 | the number and proportion of women in paid employment in the United Kingdom has increased substantially since the Second World War , and |
| 12 | Emigration , perhaps the best gauge of public unease , has increased sharply since the 4 June massacre , an event that shocked millions of ordinary Hong Kong residents usually uninterested in politics . |
| 13 | The volume of economic transnational practices has increased phenomenally since the 1950s , as evidenced by the tremendous growth of foreign trade , l and this means that even some quite poor people in some poor countries can now distinguish many consumer goods in terms of their origins and the status-conferring advantages that some origins have over others . |
| 14 | Mammalian meiotic chromosome preparation has progressed considerably since the early days when a good squash preparation was the best that could be achieved . |
| 15 | It is a very rare disease today and the incidence has decreased markedly since the Second World War . |
| 16 | In the first place , even though the population of inner city areas has declined markedly since the early 1970s , the job opportunities available to inner city residents have contracted even more rapidly . |
| 17 | Delft is proud of its association with the Dutch master painter Jan Vermeer and the old town centre has changed little since the 17th century with drawbridges , tree-lined canals , large churches and narrow medieval streets and the view of this quaint red-roofed town from the 100 metre high steeple of the 14th century Nieuw Kerk is worth the climb . |
| 18 | Stonecutter 's Island has changed little since the British colonized Hong Kong . |
| 19 | Some Japanese maintain that the way in which society operates has changed little since the 1930s . |
| 20 | In addition , disincorporation should be made easier because the commercial and fiscal environment has changed drastically since the 1960s when companies were ‘ well-advised to incorporate to obtain the benefits of limited liability and easier access to new finance ’ . |
| 21 | This situation has changed somewhat since the 1960s as a consequence of : |
| 22 | The pattern of outcome of conceptions outside marriage has changed considerably since the early 1970s . |
| 23 | The highest rates of known opioid use continued to be found in Birkenhead ( 8.3 per 1,000 ) and Ford ( 7.7 per 1,000 ) , though rates in Woodchurch , Wallasey Village and Moreton , while still high , had dropped substantially since the 1984–5 survey . |
| 24 | The population of Europe , including Russia , had grown steadily since the seventeenth century , and continued to do so after 1880 . |
| 25 | Trade union strength had risen steadily since the 1930s from under 4 million members in 1935 to 14.5 million by 1945 , and their leaders demanded wage rises to match rising prices . |
| 26 | Simultaneously , the rateable values for business were moved more into line with market values , leading to enormous ( and justified ! ) increases in the tax assessment for firms in the south-east , where property prices had risen substantially since the previous assessment of rateable values years earlier . |
| 27 | Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 28 | The Rossmaynes had lived there since the sixteenth century , the house stubbornly resisting the elements which tried to erode its walls . |
| 29 | Denktash argued that UN proposals would mean that 40,000 Turkish Cypriots would be forced to leave homes they had lived in since the Turkish invasion of the island in 1974 . |
| 30 | However , while battles such as those of the Jarama ( February 1937 ) , Guadalajara ( March 1937 ) and Brunete ( July 1937 ) were fought bitterly and with heavy casualties on both sides , as the Civil War entered its second year the fronts around Madrid had changed little since the previous November . |