Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] since " in BNC.
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1 | The first sign of the present pattern of occurrence is detectable as early as the winter of 1953/54 , but an increase has been most marked since the winter of 1961/62 . |
2 | It says : ‘ This attitude has been particularly noticeable since the appointment of two area directors . |
3 | Behind this lies the problem of an economy that has been largely stagnant since the mid-1970s . |
4 | The aircraft has been fully operational since 1987 and to date has completed more than 650 centrifugal launches with a better than 98% success rate — not such an outlandish scheme after all ! |
5 | The £650,000 investment funded by the Cumbernauld Development Corporation , in conjunction with Lyle , has been fully operational since September and is well timed to coincide with a considerable increase of activity within the company . |
6 | The establishment of the present winter population appears to date from the mid-1950s , and the increase has been very marked since 1960 . |
7 | The interior is lit partly by the 16 windows in each dome which are set above the springing line , but this has been less effective since the thirteenth century when the outer cupolas were constructed . |
8 | President Richard von Weizsäcker , often able to set the tone , has been unusually reticent since the storm he created last year by urging that the government should move from Bonn to Berlin ( an issue that remains undecided ) . |
9 | Aung San Suu Kyi , the leader of the National League for Democracy , has been under house-arrest since July . |
10 | I know that the hon. Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) will recognise — being , like me , a Lancashire Member — that only one local authority in Lancashire has been consistently Labour-controlled since the local government reorganisation . |
11 | However , a move to Besiktas , where he would earn big money , would prolong his Liverpool connection , for they are coached by ex-Reds midfielder Gordon Milne , who has been highly successful since joining the club . |
12 | It was the first time he 'd been really alone since the days when he 'd lived in a hole and had to go out hunting by himself because there was no one else . |
13 | The experience of rehabilitation centres is that people who come to them having been conscientiously cheerful since the day of their loss , who have never wept or allowed themselves to enter fully into the pain of their loss , find it much more difficult to acquire new skills . |
14 | She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane . |
15 | The Board of Admiralty had been well aware since 1955 that the US Navy 's Polaris-armed submarines might become the capital ships of the future , and might prove to be more invulnerable as mobile launch platforms for the nuclear deterrent than the US Air Force 's Skybolt , if it too was successfully developed . |
16 | It had been largely dormant since the late 1950s and during the communal violence of the summer of 1969 , many embittered Catholics had voiced their anger at its lack of action by saying that IRA stood for ‘ I Ran Away ’ . |
17 | He was attempting to comfort Cleo , who had been uncharacteristically silent since their encounter with the children . |
18 | There were indications during 1990 that the global debt situation , which had been steadily worsening since the early 1980s , might be starting to ease , as lenders from the developed countries resumed their credits to the developing world and as the return of confidence in the global economy prompted a resumption of foreign investment . |
19 | In 1972 , 41% of women over 16 were daily cigarette smokers ( a figure that had been fairly constant since the 1950s ) whilst in 1986 that figure was 31% , compared with 52% and 35% for men [ 1 ] : this has given rise to the assumption that women find it more difficult to give up smoking than men . |
20 | ‘ It 's been a tough couple of years but I 've been relatively OK since earlier this year . |
21 | THOSE GUITARS have been pretty quiet since October last year , when the lackluster ‘ All Over My Face ’ sank with scarcely a ripple . |
22 | Congressmen have been less pugnacious since then , and in exchange Mr Borja has stopped trying to reform things much . |
23 | I was greatly encouraged by the good spirit of the meeting and have been very heartened since then by the mature christian attitude of a number of people who were strongly opposed to the project , but who have been willing to accept the decision of the church meeting and move on from there . |
24 | Turning to the privatised Devil 's Bridge line , things have been very quiet since September 's end of season . |