Example sentences of "had [vb pp] since [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His solution to the problem of scholarship is to call for a closer alliance between literary criticism and the historical study of language , to be achieved through the kind of emphasis on literary language which he himself had favoured since the 1930s . |
| 2 | As a military exercise , however , many gaps in British naval and air provision had been shown up ; but it was a spectacular triumph , the first that Britain had known since the 1950s . |
| 3 | In 1969 NATO had agreed that progress in Germany should lead to a conference on European security which Moscow had wanted since the 1950s . |
| 4 | At the same time , however strong the desire to cut defence costs and to give priority to home affairs , too much had happened since the mid-1930s for the United States to return to its prewar foreign and defence policies . |
| 5 | Things had changed since the 1920s when Lionel Hedges , a Tonbridge and Kent cricketer and Oxford blue , had dismissed ‘ a seedy looking middle-aged gentleman [ who ] called on him on the morning of a match . |
| 6 | In fact we were , rather condescendingly , informed that teaching methods had changed since the 1960s and we could not expect our child to be educated in the same manner as we ourselves had been . |
| 7 | It was as well that I was unable to visit the Aran Isles , for if they had changed since the 1930s my disappointment might have been too great to bear . |