Example sentences of "[vb pp] since the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of long-stay hospitals for the care of the mentally handicapped stems from successive policies of containment pursued since the last century , and which have persisted into the 1980s despite the widespread understanding that it is wrong for mentally handicapped people , who are not ill and do not require advanced medical treatment , to spend their entire lives within the confines of a large establishment which is primarily concerned with medical treatment and the cure of the sick . |
| 2 | It lets you back up ( and restore ) whole disks or selected files and/or directories — including the option to back up only files that have modified since the last run . |
| 3 | Thus one human produces about 2 x 10 10 E. coli per day , almost all freshly grown since the last defecation . |
| 4 | Such pains and miseries as they did not feel , they acted out : acting , indeed , at this level of ham had not been seen since the last World Cup , or the Peter O'Toole Macbeth . |
| 5 | Brief site visits are not sufficient to supervise work effectively and the surveyor must ensure that adequate time is set aside when on site to look closely at the work executed since the last inspection . |
| 6 | The condition of Anne Freeman , in-patient , was ‘ much mended ’ and one of Mary Boyce 's eyes had continued to recover ; the other was much inflamed since the last report . |
| 7 | The pier had knobs but was derelict , entry barred since the last fire . |
| 8 | If the files are on computer then the printout should indicate the time that has elapsed since the last time entry on the file . |
| 9 | More practical is a back-up scheme that saves individual files , backing up only those that have changed since the last run . |
| 10 | Has the size of your household changed since the last time you bought a kitchen appliance ? |
| 11 | The assisted area map will change not because the Government will change but because circumstances have changed since the last review . |
| 12 | She reflected on how much she had changed since the last festival , less than seven weeks ago . |
| 13 | The Reporter , Gordon Sloan , told the three Panel Members that the grounds for referral had not changed since the last Hearing three weeks previously . |