Example sentences of "the [num] there [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the mid-1980's there has been little or no growth . |
| 2 | And since the mid-1990s there have been more prison riots in Britain than in any other European country . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Since the 1960s there have been big increases in the amounts of CFCs produced and consumed . |
| 5 | Since the 1950s there have been three major phases of electronic data creation . |
| 6 | In the 1980s there has been another resurgence of activity following the realisation that the country is simultaneously suffering from a high rate of unemployment and a shortage of workers with specific skills . |