Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remarriage rates ( the number of marriages per thousand divorced persons ) have fallen continuously since the 1970s , largely due to the growing popularity of cohabitation between marriages . |
| 2 | Rates reached 9% in September 1992 following sterling 's withdrawal from the ERM and have fallen further since then . |
| 3 | The wintering population has declined considerably in recent years , but it is unlikely that breeding numbers have altered greatly since 1938 . |
| 4 | Consequently , while corporate structures have developed apace since reorganization , it is questionable whether the corporate ethos has become deeply rooted . |
| 5 | A few have summered annually since 1966 , but breeding is still very rare . |
| 6 | Studies are now being conducted into the habits of the maleo but so far ornithologists have added little since Wallace 's day to our knowledge of the bird . |
| 7 | The Scottish pressure on ball won by the Welsh was superb and this really indicated how far they have come on since the match against the Italians . |
| 8 | The eight of us have met regularly since then . |
| 9 | Of course , the effect produced by unbroken lines of gentlemen in evening suits , so outnumbering representatives of the fairer sex , was a rather severe one ; but then again , in those days , the two large chandeliers that hang over the table still ran on gas — resulting in a subtle , quite soft light pervading the room — and did not produce the dazzling brightness they have done ever since their electrification . |
| 10 | In Sweden ( a country I have visited regularly since 1976 ) there is a desire , expressed by both teachers and senior government educational advisors , to use the most recent läroplan ( the centrally imposed school curriculum ) as a starting point for creative teaching which takes into account the needs of children and the way in which they learn . |
| 11 | He insists standards , attitude and skills , at and away from Central Park , have risen dramatically since his arrival four years ago . |
| 12 | Ensuring sufficient money to finance the government machine has been a by-product of the third characteristic : maintaining savings and investment , which in all three cases ( Kenya , Cameroun and Botswana ) have risen substantially since 1960 , to about 25 per cent of the output of the economy in 1986 . |
| 13 | Things have moved on since then . |
| 14 | Matters have moved on since then and those ideas are now very much on the agenda , and I am delighted by that . |
| 15 | The company 's exports have grown steadily since the early 1950s and , as it was then , won a Queen 's Award back in 1983 . |
| 16 | Syva 's revenues have grown steadily since then to $1 3Om last year . |
| 17 | The UK 's stock of overseas direct investments is second only to that of the United States , considerably ahead of West Germany 's and Japan 's , although those countries ' enterprises abroad have grown considerably since the 1960s . |
| 18 | It is for this reason that the CNAA , in approving first degree courses , whose numbers have expanded two-fold since 1974 , has been at pains to devise what it regards as more intellectually vigorous programmes than was the case with the Dip.AD . |
| 19 | Debt markets , however , have expanded greatly since then , and debt instruments performing much like equities have proliferated . |
| 20 | She says that three shops have closed down since Christmas . |
| 21 | France .......... 27 Home Unions XV .. 29 THE LIONS ' claws have not been drawn by the two months they have had apart since Australia . |
| 22 | Although des Forges and Harber gave only about 15 winter ( November to February ) records until 1960 , a few birds have wintered regularly since 1964 around Pagham Harbour ; what are probably the same individuals have also been seen quite often around Chichester Harbour . |
| 23 | The Sino-British talks on Patten 's plan to broaden democracy in Hong Kong before it reverts to Chinese rule in 1997 have dragged on since April with little hint of progress . |
| 24 | Citizen Kane , an eight-piece band of rhythm and blues and boogie-musicians are three saxophonists , two guitarists and a double bassist plus a drummer , who have played nationally since 1981 and in their current line-up for three years . |
| 25 | France , Italy and Spain , on the other hand , have slowed sharply since last summer , with industrial output now below its level a year ago in all three countries . |
| 26 | Emissions from industry have reduced dramatically since the oil crisis of 1973 , through the introduction of energy-efficient technology and production process . |
| 27 | The old-style conglomerates based around a bank which emerged from the pre-war zaibatsu differ markedly from newer groups that have sprung up since the second world war . |
| 28 | Of course , for the wealthiest strata there is always the option of sending their children to elite private schools , while other urban parents make sacrifices to send their children to the fee-paying schools which have sprung up since 1977 especially to meet the unfulfilled demand for secondary education . |
| 29 | In later years , one union member pointed out that there was " a new generation of printers who have sprung up since the strike . |
| 30 | Teeside Park , founded by the government-funded Teeside Development Corporation and borough council-funded Preston Farm and the Bowesfield industrial estates have sprung up since the last election . |