Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been a steady [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a steady increase in the ethnic heterogeneity of most union republics between the wars ; since then , and particularly since the 1960s , the trend had been in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | Already , there had been a steady flow of Norman families into the country from England , but they were thinly spread and had been given no opportunity to make an impact on Scottish society and administration . |
| 3 | There had been a steady diminution — since the operation — in his own interest in dentistry but she had tapped his experience out of him and collected it with care . |
| 4 | Since the early 1980s there had been a steady erosion of the pro-nuclear power base within both the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party . |
| 5 | It is true that there had been a steady erosion to the pre-war image of Japan as a cheap labour economy producing shoddy goods , but the 1970s saw an explosion of interest in what lessons Japan could offer advanced industrial societies . |
| 6 | After a short but successful amateur career he had been a steady winner of golfing titles in Europe and Africa ; had flirted with the American tour in the seventies , but without the conviction to make a real marriage of it ; and had been good enough occasionally to carry the hopes of British fans into the Open Championship . |