Example sentences of "[adv] since a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yet such sociological explanations for men 's reticence at reporting abnormal symptoms only serves to underline the absence of a national prostate screening campaign , particularly so since a simple blood test has been available over the last four years which can detect the likely presence of prostate cancer . |
| 8 | But the Foss men were famously militant , they had been ever since a young minister with lordly tastes and little scholarship had been foisted on them by the laird twelve years before and they had first boycotted him , then run him down the road on a cart . |
| 9 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 10 | Ever since a military coup overthrew the elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 , the indigenous Mayan people , who make up two-thirds of the population of eight million , have suffered widespread , brutal and systematic oppression at the hands of a Spanish speaking minority . |
| 11 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 12 | Travellers have been camping at Yoke Farm , Upper Hill near Leominster ever since a landowner sympathetic to their cause bought the farm in 1969 . |
| 13 | However , since it is difficult to turn an autocrat into a democrat , or vice versa — ie. since a leopard can not change its spots … |
| 14 | Tension has risen sharply since a referendum last month in which the majority of the population voted for independence . |
| 15 | Many seem anxious , not surprisingly since a large notice announces , ‘ Due to a shortage of train crews , the following services will not run . ’ |
| 16 | Wearing a different one every time she went out would be only normal , particularly since a sari does not have to be washed as frequently as a dress because it is not worn next to the skin . |
| 17 | Within these limitations , however , an amorphous and diverse spread of topics remains to be explored , particularly since a persistent theme of this chapter will be to emphasize that environmentalism in rural England is not simply a technological or ecological affair , but a social , political and even philosophical question , too . |
| 18 | The police , however , did not dismiss the possibility of the involvement in Wybran 's murder of extreme right-wing groups , particularly since a neo-Nazi training camp was found on Dec. 27 , 1989 , near the Dutch border . |
| 19 | At yet another , we will never get there since a stream of tendency has been caught and held in new-visioned ( as opposed to far-sighted ) iconic stasis , and there can be no movement on out of the world we live in into the book we read . |
| 20 | My own driving has become a pleasure again since a cataract in my right eye was dealt with . |
| 21 | at all , I 've never since a child remember |
| 22 | TIMES have changed considerably since a youthful Austin Rawlinson attended his first swimming gala , well before World War 1 , and realised his love of the water had helped him develop an outstanding talent . |