Example sentences of "there have been [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 2 March 1939 Pacelli was elected pope in succession to Pius XI in the shortest conclave there had been since 1623 . |
| 2 | There had been in 1983 and 1984 , two great festivals of athletics : the first ever World Championships in Helsinki and the Olympic Games in Los Angeles , respectively . |
| 3 | Even in the urban core where there has been massive population loss associated with slum clearance , there were almost as many dwellings in 1981 as there had been in 1961 and , as Table 3.4 shows , the area now has a far higher standard of amenity . |
| 4 | There was no attempt , as there had been in 1919 , to withdraw from a world role . |
| 5 | By 1986 there were three times the number of places in private homes than there had been in 1979 . |
| 6 | Apart from this , the Emperor was afraid that if the Duke de Montpensier , who was married to Isabella 's sister , became King there would be a civil war in Spain as there had been in 1830 , when ‘ a sister had dethroned a sister ’ . |