Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] be [verb] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | No less than 625 had been lost since 1945 . |
| 2 | More than 800 have been sold since 1964 — equivalent to one every seven working days — with 84 per cent going for export , sixty per cent of the North American market . |
| 3 | How much has been learnt since then ? |
| 4 | Much has been learnt since then about how paracetamol damages the liver . |
| 5 | However , this right — for which Amnesty International had been lobbying since 1985 — was rendered meaningless by critical flaws in the proposed appeals procedure . |
| 6 | During the three-hour debate , the first to have been held since 1960 , Doi and the other leaders assailed Kaifu over the consumption tax . |
| 7 | Cattle numbers in general have been declining since 1978 and the introduction of milk quotas has accelerated the rate of decrease |
| 8 | Of thirty-four statutes repealed along with the general act in 1824 , twenty had been passed since 1714 ; ten of these had been passed in Dublin and did not apply to England and one was specific to Scots miners . |
| 9 | ‘ As far as I know , no Vietnamese have been captured since 26 September , ’ said Marine Colonel Chumphon Chotiyothin . |
| 10 | Leaders of the Moslem community , concentrated around the Batticaloa region , estimated in mid-August that over 500 had been killed since June , and 387 in August in the Batticaloa and Amparai districts . |
| 11 | All eight had been detained since June [ see also p. 38312 ] and their release had been repeatedly demanded by the FIS as a precondition to FIS participation in the election . |
| 12 | Proposals for a Trans-Siberian had been made since the 1850s , but it was famine and political disorder in the East at the beginning of the last decade of the century which finally prompted the building of the line . |
| 13 | Several hundred have been produced since the 18th century explorers brought more foreign languages into contact — and friction . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it is more than likely that socio-economic differences in crowding have been reduced since 1948 with the expansion of council housing . |
| 15 | Four have been killed since 1985 . |
| 16 | As for the human rights record of Saudi Arabia , Amnesty reports the detention of political prisoners for long periods without trial — eleven have been incarcerated since 1979 . |
| 17 | As for the human rights record of Saudi Arabia , Amnesty reports the detention of political prisoners for long periods without trial — eleven have been incarcerated since 1979 . |
| 18 | Both have been accelerated since the war by the widespread application of the internal combustion engine . |
| 19 | Most have been convicted since 1988 under Indonesia 's sweeping Anti-Subversion Law , accused of attempting to establish an independent state of ‘ West Papua ’ . |
| 20 | Of these , 20 have been founded since 1960 . |
| 21 | Their ‘ dieselised ’ version of a well proved 1,600cc four-cylinder engine first set the standard in 1976 , and more than 2,300,000 have been sold since then . |