Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] since [num] " in BNC.
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1 | After more than a decade of decline , the numbers have been rising since 1985 . |
2 | Many reports , and particularly the Black Report and the more recent Health Education Council ‘ The Health Divide ’ have used the relationship between occupational class and death rates over time to demonstrate that inequalities in health between socio-economic groups have been increasing since 1951 and perhaps since 1931 . |
3 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
4 | Do you realise that those four or five women from the RVH have been fighting since 1984 for some sort of fairness and equality in their pay ? |
5 | The company have been trading since 1897 . |
6 | Cattle numbers in general have been declining since 1978 and the introduction of milk quotas has accelerated the rate of decrease |
7 | The DKBS workshops have been running since 1985 and were operated under Alvey Directorate as part of the Alvey IKBS initiative . |