Example sentences of "has been a [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | And besides , it has been a while since I have wandered four-footed with my children . ’ |
| 2 | André Leon Talley of American Vogue has been a friend since he headed the Womenswear Daily bureau in Paris in the Seventies . |
| 3 | The construction equipment giant has been a customer since the early Seventies , and has taken delivery of 150,000 engines to date . |
| 4 | Ipswich , 7 miles south , has been a settlement since the Stone Age , with interesting historical buildings and good modern amenities including a large shopping centre and leisure complex . |
| 5 | They are an important source for two reasons : they indicate that the overload problem has been a constant since the Second World War and is not peculiar to the sixties , seventies and eighties , and that even what has come to be regarded as the most efficiently run administration since 1945 had serious difficulties in the handling of business . |