Example sentences of "[been] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Houses are no longer the gold-plated investment they have been since the war . |
| 2 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
| 3 | In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder . |
| 4 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |
| 5 | Another innovation is the stream of Jewish tourists visiting Israel from Russia : 25,000 have been since 1988 , and the Jewish Agency sees this is a uniquely helpful way to win hearts and minds . |
| 6 | The pre-recorded elements of his programmes for BBC Radio Kent are compiled in a home recording studio come darkroom , as they have been since 1975 . |
| 7 | A pink winter cherry Prunus subhirtella autumnalis rosea , which was a birthday present years ago , is still flowering , as it has been since November . |
| 8 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 9 | Leslie was happier than he had been since joining the army . |
| 10 | In wartime , stations have been since the days of the American Civil War an essential element in the transportation of men and materials and consequently a military target of the first importance . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , New Zealand is now a dominion too , and has been since September . |
| 12 | He was their paying guest and had been since that afternoon seven years ago when he had tracked Rachel Gebler down to her home in this seaside suburb close to the famous swimming beaches . |
| 13 | It was substantially enlarged from £30 million per annum to about £125 million per annum , and was transferred from the Home Office ( where it had been since 1968 ) to the Department of the Environment . |
| 14 | Some wintering birds remain until late March or early April and , in recent years , there has been a clear tendency for them to linger later in the year ; all the May records have been since 1968 . |
| 15 | Spectators are there in thousands and have been since the previous day , before the roads were closed for the Tour 's progress . |
| 16 | Most of them were simply informative , one or two pitying ( everybody knows about the phenomenon and where have you been since 1605 , when Francis Bacon discovered the flashes ? ) and a few offering the hospitality of the nearest dark cupboard . |
| 17 | Bans had to be introduced to give the fish stocks time to recover , and they are better now in the 1980's than they have been since the mid-1960's . |
| 18 | And if any of his fans still needed convincing , they had only to look into the happy , laughing face of his adoring wife Jean , at his side as she has been since his horrific car accident nearly three months ago . |
| 19 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 20 | The necessity of constructing popular consent among the electorate was an important component of Conservative thought , and had been since extension of the franchise to sections of the urban working classes in 1867 . |
| 21 | He was rude to officials and contemptuous of backbenchers less successful in their careers than he had been since becoming MP for Putney in 1979 . |
| 22 | For Nestor , it was a courageous near-miss , an almost-historic encore that placed Canada closer to the final eight than it had been since 1913 ( when Canada made the Challenge round final — with only nine countries competing ) . |
| 23 | In view of the elections this month , what has Socialist policy been since 1981 ? |
| 24 | At first appraisal , Great Britain was , in 1914 , undisputed mistress of the seas , as she had been since 1805 when Admiral Lord Nelson destroyed the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar . |
| 25 | Between 1950 and 1975 the female proportion of the working population rose from 33 per cent ( which it had been since the 1890s ) to over 40 per cent ( Hunt , 1975 ) . |
| 26 | And a lot of psychological research is devoted , as it has been since the 1950s , to disproving unfounded suppositions of black subjects ' inferiority in these areas . |
| 27 | On 2 March 1939 Pacelli was elected pope in succession to Pius XI in the shortest conclave there had been since 1623 . |
| 28 | Today this is grazing land for sheep , as most of the surrounding area has been since the founding of the abbey . |
| 29 | How many have there been since then ? |
| 30 | The telephone boxes are all covered with prostitutes ' phone numbers , the street-sweepers probably have n't been since 1968 , and there are left-over hippies in attics playing mad music all the time . |