Example sentences of "had been in post " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heads interviewed had been in post from four terms to nearly 20 years . |
| 2 | I was fortunate to join three other NDOs , Messrs , Bannatyne , Fielding and Laurie , who had been in post for several months , involved in assessment , validation and regulations pertaining to pilot courses . |
| 3 | Retiring members included the Chairman , of who had been in post since 1984 , seeing the Council successfully through a record number of reviews of its work , ways of working and reconstitutions . |
| 4 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 5 | John Shalikashvili was appointed NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe in succession to Gen. John Galvin , who had been in post since 1987 and was due to retire in mid-1992 . |