Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] since [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United Kingdom the legislature has effectively long since surrendered the power of the purse to the executive , but that is far from being the case in the United States . |
| 2 | ( At that time the lesbians involved in the organizations of the conferences had all long since made positive decisions to be child-free . ) |
| 3 | But the artistes had all long since departed , and smashed-up mechanical pianos cluttered the abandoned music-hall . |
| 4 | Against his magnetic forces , my own ‘ evil ’ eye , which had anyhow long since started to abandon me , could put up no resistance . |
| 5 | The street lights had just come on , a little premature , and where they stood close to any of the orphan-like trees their electric brightness was captured in the mesh of dusty leaves , giving the street an elegance it had otherwise long since lost . |