Example sentences of "there [vb past] been a steady " in BNC.
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1 | Since the early 1980s there had been a steady erosion of the pro-nuclear power base within both the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party . |
2 | Already , there had been a steady flow of Norman families into the country from England , but they were thinly spread and had been given no opportunity to make an impact on Scottish society and administration . |
3 | It is true that there had been a steady erosion to the pre-war image of Japan as a cheap labour economy producing shoddy goods , but the 1970s saw an explosion of interest in what lessons Japan could offer advanced industrial societies . |
4 | There had been a steady diminution — since the operation — in his own interest in dentistry but she had tapped his experience out of him and collected it with care . |
5 | There had been a steady increase in the ethnic heterogeneity of most union republics between the wars ; since then , and particularly since the 1960s , the trend had been in the opposite direction . |