Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [prep] office " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been in office for four months . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman will recall that since we have been in office , there has been an increase in the strength of the Cumbrian police of 110 uniformed officers and 144 civilians , making a total increase of 254 . |
| 3 | I assure the hon. Gentleman that since we have been in office we have increased expenditure for the Cumbrian police authority by 80 per cent . |
| 4 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that since we have been in office there has been an increase of 693 officers in Northumbria 's police strength . |
| 5 | Neither of those points is true after the years in which we have been in office . |
| 6 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |
| 7 | It will mainly be because they have been in office a long time , and because of the recession . |
| 8 | Surely a Government 's job is to address the overall rise in crime that has taken place while they have been in office , and also to deal with this new phenomenon — the amazing increase in youth crime . |
| 9 | Granted , he has been in office a short while , and has had much to occupy him . |
| 10 | Is he ashamed of the fact that every month he has been in office reading standards of seven-year-olds have fallen ? |
| 11 | It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops . |
| 12 | He had been in office for only 65 days , ending in January 1981 . |