Example sentences of "[noun pl] has been [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 2 | Yet almost exactly the same phenomenon of rising wealth matched by falling savings has been occurring in the US , as the second graph shows . |
| 3 | A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry . |
| 4 | The rate of failures has been declining through the 1980s and the last time it was running at these levels was 1984 , when 3,924 businesses failed . |
| 5 | The parachutist who crash-landed on a group of schoolchildren has been talking for the first time about what happened . |