Example sentences of "has [vb pp] in the [num] " in BNC.

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1 Already another member of the nursing staff has enrolled in the 1993/94 course .
2 Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties .
3 It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers .
4 Simultaneously with the preparation of the new housing benefit scheme , the Government began operating a policy of significantly increasing the level of council house rents , and a threefold increase has occurred in the nine years since 1979 ( House of Commons Library Note , 19 July 1988 ) .
5 Golf , from nothing , has become in the Eighties the most successful sport , internationally , practised in these islands .
6 This trend has persisted in the 1980s ; by 1989 the mean age at marriage stood at 24.8 for women and 26.9 for men .
7 Since the table began on the current basis 22 years ago , Clerical Medical has appeared in the top-ten no fewer than 51 times out of a possible 66 .
8 Thus although poverty among lone mothers has increased in the 1980s , as a group they have long been vulnerable to poverty .
9 A lot has happened in the seven months since Ford unveiled its new Escort range — and not much of it in accordance with its £1 billion master plan .
10 Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly .
11 So what has happened in the three decades that have passed ?
12 Economic inequality is a subject that has thrived in the 1970s and 1980s .
13 The new exhibition comprises thirty-eight paintings with particular emphasis being placed upon those works which Caulfield has created in the eleven years since his retrospective held at the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool , and the Tate Gallery , in 1981–82 .
14 However , the UCTA is so intimately connected with the process of negotiation and drafting in the areas covered by the next four chapters that , as a preliminary to detailed analysis of the precedents , it was felt essential to lay out the principles contained in the UCTA and discuss their application in the light of the case law that has evolved in the 15 years or so since the UCTA came into effect .
15 Some marketing commentators also take the view that the objective of successful marketing has changed in the 1980s .
16 That is hardly surprising , as the crime rate has doubled in the 12 years since the Conservative party was elected on a promise of law and order .
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