Example sentences of "[adv] since [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These CDs cost more than the major company ones , but this is fair enough since the higher costs have to be spread over a smaller volume . |
| 2 | The damp and leaky shacks they inhabit have not changed much since the famous sepia photographs that sometimes decorate contemporary colour magazines were taken nearly a hundred years ago . |
| 3 | He had not written much since The Complete History of Wimbledon and that book 's rejection by ten publishers ( he had still not heard from The Applecote Press , Chewton Mendip ) had made him a little nervous of putting pen to paper , but he found that if he emptied his mind of everything and forced his hand to fist a biro and then forced that biro across a sheet of paper , some pretty profound and interesting thoughts resulted . |
| 4 | Land values have not increased much since the council bought the ground . |
| 5 | There is an air of prosperity , faded somewhat since the closing of the lead mines that contributed wealth to the community after the discovery of the metallic element strontium . |
| 6 | Indeed the meaning of " own resources " has changed somewhat since the early attempts to identify tax bases appropriate for EC usage . |
| 7 | In some countries however , notably Brazil , the rate appeared to have declined somewhat since the mid-80s , as government incentives for land clearance were ended . |
| 8 | Erm it has been altered somewhat since the original er railway days , but nevertheless it retains quite a bit of the old character erm and er the high pitched roofs erm and the . |
| 9 | In the game between human and bacteria , the ‘ shadow of the future ’ is normally long since a typical human can be expected to live for years from any given starting-point . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't remember what it 's like to be drunk , ’ said O'Toole some years after taking the pledge , ‘ it 's so long since a drink passed my lips . |
| 11 | Leading the way to her sitting-room , she turned to face him , and saw that any gentleness of expression was long since a thing of the past . |
| 12 | It was not long since every family of considerable substance was haunted by a spirit they called Browny , which did several sorts of work and this was the reason why they gave him offerings on what was called Browny 's stone . |
| 13 | It has not been so long since the average chartered or company secretary was something of an eminence grise , rather than being in the front-line . |
| 14 | When on 5 September the Lords Lieutenant of the four most northerly counties were ordered to make their respective militias ready for immediate service , it emerged that neither Northumberland nor Durham had been reimbursed by central government for the money they had previously spent in keeping the force mustered , while the authorities in Cumberland admitted candidly : ‘ T is so long since the militia was raised that we are apprehensive the arms are either lost or in bad order . ’ |
| 15 | How long since the formality of ‘ Dinner is served ’ ? |
| 16 | In theory they were writing a book on the actors , but long since the fascination of collection for its own sake had taken over and work on the collation of evidence ceased . |
| 17 | It was not long since the Austrian Nestroy had written his entertaining and embittered farce The Talisman ( 1840 ) , in which the fortunes of a poor red-haired man are dramatically changed by the acquisition , and subsequent loss , of a black wig . |
| 18 | In general , nearly all the Members I interviewed felt that their own lives and life style ( leaving aside their use of procedures ) had not changed greatly since the coming of television . |
| 19 | They regard the fusion as a sound investment and , although Unionist stock has appreciated greatly since the new issue , there is not a man of us who has the slightest intention of selling out . |
| 20 | Restriction of the rotation to the surface of the bond angle cone ( Figure 1.3 ) does not in fact alter the " Gaussian " chain model appreciably since an " equivalent random link " may always be found , whatever the restrictions on bond angle . |
| 21 | You suggested that S.M.T. may be willing to operate the extensions to the service 281 journeys to and from Edinburgh on a commercial basis , assuming the demand has increased sufficiently since the extensions were introduced . |
| 22 | The history of St Mary 's and that of the town over which it presides have been bound together since the Middle Ages , and the church 's sober , dignified presence was to form part of Coleridge 's earliest recollections of childhood . |
| 23 | ‘ I like to think the main reason we have stayed together since the World Cup is the great spirit within this Australian team . |
| 24 | This was the first time they 'd been out together since the alleged phone-calls , and if there 'd been any more since then she had n't mentioned it . |
| 25 | The same way with the bombardier waste gunner , radio operators , engineers and all the gunners , so that our crews were all buddy-buddy. crew and my crew were buddy-buddy from the minute we were formed , right on through , I guess you might say the rest of our lives here , even though we have not gotten together since the war but I have talked to on the phone one time when I was in New York City . |
| 26 | Unsurprisingly since the bonds are pitched at prices up to £1,500 . |
| 27 | The history of devolution has been a chequered one in our country , perhaps since the second world war . |
| 28 | I hate bathing her in the sink because the kitchen is draughty , especially since a chunk of the wall fell out a few weeks ago . ’ |
| 29 | The theory that the development charge would leave the developer unwilling or unable to pay more than the existing use value for his land is not at present working out in practice , especially since a would-be house owner who pays building value to the seller of the land . |
| 30 | The percentage growth in both sales and group profits over the period from 1985 are impressive but its objectives to the end of this decade and half way through the next are even more so , especially since a clear and detailed strategy for its achievement is firmly in place . |