Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , a government report in 1970 concluded that , for the period 1954–68 , ‘ the underlying upward trend in the percentage of the manual labour force on shifts in manufacturing has been about 1 per cent per annum . ’ |
| 2 | In the post-war period , expenditure on the military has been between 5 and 10 per cent of GDP . |
| 3 | A measure of your success in a coaching session is when the subordinate feels the discussion has been between two equals and that together you have arrived at the best course of action . |
| 4 | The average audience has been between 200,000 and 250,000 . |
| 5 | Inter-rater reliability was assessed across codes , individuals and data-points ; mean weighted occurrence/ non-occurrence reliability has been between 84 per cent and 95 per cent on each occasion . |
| 6 | It is currently considered that a House consisting of some 650 members is appropriate ; the figure has been between 600 and 650 for many decades although there is nothing magic about this particular size . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom has been through 13 years in which unemployment has more than doubled , irreplaceable assets have been wasted , markets at home and abroad have been lost , manufacturing investment has fallen , poverty has increased , the crime rate has rocketed , and talents have been neglected . |
| 8 | The Welsh Office Education Department is responsible ( and has been since 1970 ) for schools and further and higher education in Wales , but not universities or the qualifications , probation , pay , superannuation or misconduct of teachers , which remain the responsibility of the DES . |
| 9 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cumulative total of all taxes from North sea oil has been since 1979 in 1991-92 prices . |
| 10 | Inflation has been above 11.5 per cent since 1983 , and reached 18.6 per cent in 1986 . |
| 11 | Tony Ward , spokesman for the British Athletic Federation , said : ‘ Joan has been to two world and two European Championships and one Olympics . |
| 12 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |
| 13 | Has been for six years . |
| 14 | Although the triple junctions identified in Africa , including those along the continental margin as well as those in the interior , have variously evolved by spreading along one , two or all three rift arms , the most common sequence has been for one arm to remain inactive and form an aulacogen , with spreading occurring along the other two ( Fig. 4.13 ) . |
| 15 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Miss Kenton ’ is properly speaking ‘ Mrs Benn and has been for twenty years . |
| 17 | And in fact housing is more affordable now , than it has been for twenty five or thirty years . |
| 18 | Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago . |
| 19 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 21 | I ordered Andrew one , Andrew has been after one for a long time . |
| 22 | Every goalkicker hits a periodic trough and more than once over the last 12 months ‘ Noddy ’ has been within one unsuccessful kick of handing over to the New South Wales fullback Marty Roebuck . |
| 23 | In contrast , the drop in the United Kingdom over the same period has been from 4.4 to 3.1 per 100,000 of the population — a reduction of 32 per cent . |
| 24 | My aim has been in one respect identical to Paley 's aim . |
| 25 | An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment . |
| 26 | The major thrust of this recent research has been in four directions . |
| 27 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 28 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 29 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 30 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |