Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published . |
| 2 | Much of the publicity that drug usage has received over the last two or three years has been counter-productive . |
| 3 | All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war . |
| 4 | The aid programme , as it has developed over the last thirty years , has failed in terms of its original objective , i.e. the promotion of a pattern of economic growth in which the injection of external finance on soft terms was no longer necessary . |
| 5 | The Barcelona festival is the most enjoyable , experimental stop on what Gibson jokingly calls the ‘ virtual rubber chicken circuit ’ , a global network of theoretical conferences , trade fairs and arty think tanks which has developed over the last two years to tap the millennial fascination with virtual reality . |
| 6 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 7 | This state of affairs has altered over the last 12 months or so , with some excellent ‘ edutainment ’ products being released — like Broderbunds Kid Pix and Treehouse , and the high quality software from other US companies such as The Learning Company , Davidson and Sierra . |
| 8 | In this respect , at least , little has altered since the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Inflation has fallen over the last three months and the cone of possible future inflation is now pointing slightly downwards , the bank reports in the first of its quarterly reviews of inflation produced in response to the Chancellor 's invitation in his speech at the Mansion House last year . |
| 10 | Crime in Strathclyde has fallen for the ninth consecutive month . |
| 11 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the fifth consecutive month . |
| 12 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 13 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the third month running . |
| 14 | Rainfall in October could reach record levels — more rain has fallen in the first two weeks than usually falls in the entire month . |
| 15 | In university and polytechnic libraries the advanced instruction has to wait until the second and third years of undergraduate courses , because it is at these stages that the students work on sometimes quite specialized projects . |
| 16 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |
| 17 | It is one of the world 's fastest-growing industries which has burgeoned since the Second World War , and especially since the 1960s . |
| 18 | Moscovici has referred to the second process by which social representations are produced as objectification . |
| 19 | WILL SUTHERLAND , skipper of one of the yachts in the British Steel Challenge round-the-world race , has resigned after the first leg from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro for personal reasons . |
| 20 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but the rate is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 21 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but there is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 22 | The position of the team test driver , which McNish has occupied for the last two years with Marlboro McLaren , can lead to a permanent seat in the team — as happened to Damon Hill , who has replaced Nigel Mansell alongside Alain Prost with Williams-Renault . |
| 23 | DECADENCE has come to the Third Rome . |
| 24 | A quick dust , to get rid of the cobwebs , and it 's off to the track , adrenalin pumping , because that time has come for the first track workout of the summer . |
| 25 | It has come at the eleventh hour . |
| 26 | He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them . |
| 27 | There are several other systems , regionally important , ethnically , culturally and/or theologically based but none has , as yet , had the pervasive success that capitalism has enjoyed in the twentieth century . |
| 28 | Metcalfe and Richards point out that the strategic management literature has wrestled for the last 20 years with the problems of managing for results in unstable conditions , yet the lessons which emerge are just starting to be taken on board in the public sector . |
| 29 | In the long term , Britain has to come into the next century with a partnership in Europe . |
| 30 | One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society . |