Example sentences of "have be lost since " in BNC.
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| 1 | No less than 625 had been lost since 1945 . |
| 2 | One of his earliest discoveries in this field was how to make Tyrian purple — an indigo derivative — from certain shellfish , a secret which had been lost since Roman times . |
| 3 | If ground had been lost since 1963 , it had been lost before Labour took power . |
| 4 | According to the Council for the Protection of Rural England , some 120,000 miles of hedgerow have been lost since 1947 and this accelerated during the 1980s and there is no evidence that this rate of loss has slowed down ( in spite of the continued popularity of fox hunting ) . |
| 5 | Some 2m jobs have been lost since 1990 , almost twice as many as during the 1979-81 recession . |
| 6 | His sentiments are echoed by Frank Lawrence , general manage of United Technologies , at whose factory , only 19 hours of production have been lost since 1976 . |
| 7 | I agree that many jobs , particularly in manufacturing industry , have been lost since 1979 , but one must remember that there was a great deal of overmanning in 1979 . |
| 8 | More than 16,000 mining jobs have been lost since last October when British Coal unveiled its pit-closure programme , leaving a workforce of just 24,000 . |