Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] since [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Brooke , the UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , announced in the House of Commons on July 5 that there was to be a delay in the progress of current devolution talks which he had undertaken since January 1990 with a view to producing new arrangements for exercising political power in the province [ see pp. 37198 ; 37262 ; 37583 ] . |
| 2 | Figures released on Feb. 13 showed that the seasonally adjusted surplus for January 1992 had quadrupled since January 1991 to $3,840 million , and that exports had risen by 9.7 per cent against a 3.8 per cent fall in imports . |
| 3 | As reported in the newspaper La Prensa on Oct. 7 , 1989 , Joaquin Vallejo Arbeláez , a former Interior Minister , claimed that he and Germán Montoya Vélez , the Secretary-General to the Presidency , had acted since September 1988 as intermediaries in negotiations between the government and the Medellín drugs cartel before the government 's August 1989 declaration of " war " on drug traffickers [ see p. 36844 ] . |
| 4 | THE average number of escapes had halved since Group 4 began its prisoner escort service , the company 's UK managing-director claimed yesterday . |
| 5 | Two other chief executives had left since June 1988 over government intervention in the company 's activities . |
| 6 | Following the reorganization of the General People 's Committees on Oct. 8 [ see p. 39168 ] , a reshuffle was announced on Nov. 18 in which Abu Zaid Omar Dourda was re-appointed Secretary-General of the General People 's Committee , a post which he had held since October 1990 [ see p. 37795 ] . |
| 7 | His abrupt departure from positions of influence in Senegalese politics had been signalled in an extensive Cabinet reshuffle carried out on March 27 , when he was dropped from the post of Secretary-General to the Presidency and Minister of State , a post he had held since January 1981 . |
| 8 | Stoltenberg , in accepting appointment to the cabinet , gave up his post as UN High Commissioner for Refugees , which he had held since January 1990 [ see p. 36989 ] . |
| 9 | The portfolio of Economic Planning , which he had held since September 1989 , was subsequently returned to its traditional place as one of the responsibilities of the Prime Minister . |
| 10 | Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu reportedly attempted to persuade Ozawa , his main ally and patron , not to give up the secretary-general 's post ( which he had held since August 1989 when Kaifu became Prime Minister — see p. 36850 ) . |
| 11 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |