Example sentences of "[coord] has now [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dreamflight was the brainchild of British Airways colleagues Patricia Pearce and Derek Pereira back in 1986 , and has now grown into a ‘ roadshow ’ of 350 adults working around the clock to help ease the physical pain suffered by their young charges . |
| 2 | The first volume of what must eventually be one of the great modern biographies , John Richardson 's book was published last year and has now appeared in paperback . |
| 3 | Between 1870 and 1930 average completed family size decreased from five or six children to three and has now stabilized at about two . |
| 4 | But it suffered from aggressive marketing by established players such as Cray Research Inc and Convex Computer Corp , and has now laid off ‘ a large percentage ’ of its workforce , and shut down sales , marketing , manufacturing and support operations . |
| 5 | TAZ Bey 's theory of the ‘ temporary autonomous zone ’ has been floating around on the margins of Stateside cybertippy culture for a couple of years and has now drifted over here . |
| 6 | It has sold another £28m of assets and has now pulled in £70m from disposals since it took over the Brookmount property group in August . |
| 7 | All that means is that the original form was present in the rest of the Rift Valley during this period , never went extinct , and has now come into the lake again and has either made extinct , or in some other way swamped out the local form . |
| 8 | When I purchased the Emperor it was 1½″ long but has now grown to over 3″ . |
| 9 | A wooden Tudor bowl and a cider flagon cover the top of a pine haberdasher 's chest ; the framed crewelwork behind must have been ‘ horrendously bright ’ at one time , but has now faded to more acceptably gentle colours . |
| 10 | Similarly , the entry cost for new mini-computers used to be $25 million and five years ' work , but has now fallen to below $5 million and one year . |
| 11 | The population in 1961 was 629 but has now risen to just over 800 and will probably remain at this due to the closeness of BP Chemicals which dominates the skyline at Saltend . |
| 12 | The company has long-standing permission to commence operations , but has now agreed to a government request for an environmental impact assessment , the result of which is expected soon . |