Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [adv] since the " in BNC.

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1 The two sides agreed to resume border trade which had been cut off since the 1962 Sino-Indian war [ see p. 38006 ] , and joint working groups on the border issue met in New Delhi in August 1990 and in Beijing in May 1991 .
2 It was a repeat of the result of the first Fourball series at Muirfield village two years ago but only the second time that the Americans had been shut out since the fourball format was introduced at Atlanta in 1963 .
3 THE RE-OPENING of the line to Welshpool in 1981 was an achievement which had been awaited ever since the line was taken over in 1960 .
4 The mothers had been interviewed periodically since the children were two or three months old about such characteristics as the child 's activity level , adaptability , distractability , persistence and quality of mood .
5 The situation had been transformed radically since the mid eighteenth century when Nonconformist groups were relatively small and few in number .
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