Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [be] [v-ing] [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literature about informal carers and the experience of caring has been growing ever since the pioneering work of Abrams ( e.g. 1980 ) . |
| 2 | The average size of the sentenced prison population has been increasing steadily since the Second World War . |
| 3 | In the sandy soils under General Ripper 's airbase , as in aquifers throughout the agricultural Europe , the ‘ time bomb ’ of nitrate pollution has been ticking away since the 1950s . |
| 4 | ‘ Demand has been increasing steadily since November and we 're now dealing with twice the number of applications compared to the same time last year . |
| 5 | However , it is not commonly recognised that the Anglican liturgy has been evolving continuously since the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | Although he had never formally declared his candidacy , the Texan billionaire had been campaigning intensively since March . |
| 7 | They pointed out that , because of a simultaneous fall in the numbers of unemployed and of teenagers , expenditure per head on training had been growing rapidly since the mid-1980s . |
| 8 | The company has been operating independently since January 1 , and is not yet being treated as a discontinued operation by Tandy , although that should happen next time the company reports . |