Example sentences of "have gone [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of police officrs in the Thames Valley in relation to the population is still less than it was twenty years ago , yet crime has gone up six times . |
| 2 | In the past 11 years , the publicity budget for the Department of Education and Science has gone up 28 times . |
| 3 | North America and Europe are catching up fast , but it is appropriate that a Japanese company has gone back 30 years for a discarded technology to solve some of the problems . |
| 4 | Either the building was much bigger than it looked , or he was now on some wide underground level without having gone down any steps , or — as he was beginning to suspect — the inner dimensions of the place disobeyed a fairly basic rule of architecture by being bigger than the outside . |
| 5 | ‘ Tom , we 've gone up three flights . |
| 6 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
| 7 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
| 8 | Charges have gone up 17 times under the Government . |
| 9 | Pru motor premiums have gone up three times this year and house contents insurance rose by 20p in the £1 this July and further increases can not be ruled out . |
| 10 | Well he 's gone on seven days of the week complaining about so and so we 'll just narrow that down to one article about his his complaint that they may just make a little note he 's complained seven times about this ! |
| 11 | In the last half hour , it 's gone up 6 inches . |