Example sentences of "since [num] there [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Since 1979 there has been some contraction of nationalized industries .
2 Since 1979 there has been fresh emphasis on the need to roll back the frontiers of the state .
3 Since 1984 there have been constant campaigns alerting the public in Thailand to the dangers of HIV , AIDS , and sexually transmitted diseases .
4 Since 1969 there have been six ‘ near misses ’ .
5 Since 1976 there has been great erosion of respect for local government .
6 Since 1981 there have been 2000 vocational trainees a year seeking to become principals ; hence the 500 surplus .
7 Since 1987 there have been two valuable essays which examine women poets of the eighteenth century in relation to contemporary male writers .
8 Bar-tailed Godwits are very rare inland in Sussex , but since 1966 there have been six reports of birds inland on spring migration between 12 April and 3 May , usually in small parties , but 200 together flew north over Arlington Reservoir on 3 May 1971 .
9 Since 1961 there have been nine records comprising 49 birds , 39 of them in the winter of 1962/63 .
10 Since 1974 there has been increasing evidence of party politics intervening in local elections , with local-authority-wide campaigns being fought on national policy programmes .
11 Since 1965 there have been 11 reports involving 16 birds .
12 In the forty years since 1945 there have been ten new international agreements on the laws of war , totalling perhaps 100 000 words , yet the words ‘ nuclear weapons ’ do not occur once in them .
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