Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [vb past] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in 1972 there had been 462 persons employed in the catching sector , this had declined to 217 by 1982 . |
| 2 | In 1885 there had been 402 members ; in 1903 there were 1,248 . |
| 3 | Between 1972 and 1985 there had been significant energy savings in OECD countries . |
| 4 | In 1920 there had been six London evenings . |
| 5 | In 1940 and 1941 there had been few links between Free France and the clandestine movements in France . |
| 6 | In 1969 there had been major changes in the value of the German mark and French franc which threatened to damage EEC internal trade . |
| 7 | Sir Anthony goes on : ‘ The information I have been given by the joint liquidators of BCGM [ the British fund ] and BCI [ in Gibraltar ] indicates that in the period up to December 1984 there had been frequent movements of money or securities between the United Kingdom funds and the Jersey funds and , most important of all , that at December 1984 the gilt-edged securities and cash held for the Jersey funds were at least some £3.65 million less than the funds ’ obligations to investors . |
| 8 | In parish churches , however , there was a long period of stagnation , although there were improvements in standards and taste , and until the time of Vatican II there had been few developments in the Liturgy and its music . |
| 9 | In 1913 there had been 59,400 km. of navigable internal waterways , but this was reduced to 53,900 by 1922 , a relatively small decline compared with the railways . |
| 10 | In July 1916 there had been 978,112 state pensioners ; by 1924 there were 916,771 , over 61,000 fewer . |
| 11 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 12 | In the days prior to the opening of the GPC meeting on July 13 there had been unprecedented criticism of the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi , in the state-controlled media . |
| 13 | Nor should we suppose that T. S. Eliot was just firing off his big guns against R. A. Butler 's wartime Education Act of 1944 , for already in the 1930s there had been widespread criticism of ‘ standardisation ’ and ‘ levelling down ’ . |
| 14 | In 1953 there had been 4,068 subject entries from secondary modern schools ; by 1966 there were 22,000 , the floodgates were open , and alternative public examinations were being developed nationally . |
| 15 | In August 1868 there had been terrible earthquakes in the Andean foothills of Peru and Ecuador , which were estimated to have cost some 25,000 lives ; these events made some stir in London and £11,000 was collected to relieve suffering . |
| 16 | In the summer of 1974 there had been several questions regarding the possibility of anonymity in rape cases . |
| 17 | These were papers , filling two volumes , left unpublished at Hunter 's death , which Owen dedicated to the Royal College of Surgeons , where from 1837 he had been Hunterian Professor . |
| 18 | Since 1954 he had been Second Master , filling this difficult position with meticulous efficiency and good humour , qualities which also marked his teaching . |
| 19 | In 1910 there had been 315,281 Germans , 9,491 Poles , 2,124 Kaszubians and 3,021 others living in the area that was to become the Free City . |
| 20 | In August 1989 William J. Bennett , the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy , had called for the government " aggressively [ to ] implement " random testing of federal workers , but by January 1990 there had been little increase in the numbers tested due to litigation . |