Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] [v-ing] since [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a strategy underpinned the demonstration project which had been running since 1977 in Eindhoven and Rijswijk . |
| 2 | EC Education Ministers agreed on Dec. 14 , 1989 , at a meeting in Brussels to extend the Erasmus programme of inter-university exchanges , which had been running since 1988 , for a further five years from 1990 to 1994 . |
| 3 | A close alignment with Egypt was established , confirming a relationship which had been improving since 1989 . |
| 4 | It was decided in 1985 that the maypole , which had been standing since 1953 , was no longer safe and should be replaced . |
| 5 | She had been working since seven in the morning . |
| 6 | They were identified as those of Ruth Fuerst , an Austrian nurse , who had been missing since 1943 ; Muriel Eady , who had been one of Christie 's colleagues at work in 1944 ; Christie 's wife ; and three prostitutes . |
| 7 | In the second half of 1966 and throughout 1967 , rhetorical attacks on American policy in Vietnam , which he had been making since 1963 , intensified . |
| 8 | De Gaulle recognized that the crisis that he had been anticipating since 1946 had finally arrived . |