Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] late [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Ernst Verdieu , the Minister of Social Affairs , and Smark Michel , the Trade and Industry Minister were dismissed on June 14 and replaced respectively by Myrtho Céleston and Jean François Chamblain ; the Justice Minister , Bayard Vincent , had been dismissed in late May and replaced by Karl Auguste .
2 When Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tesfaye Dinka visited the Soviet Union on March 7 , the Soviet side laid particular emphasis on promoting talks on peace and national reconciliation , while on March 21 the Western press reported comments by the Soviet ambassador in Sudan , that all Soviet military advisers had been withdrawn by late February to Addis Ababa or back to the Soviet Union .
3 Depos had been formed in late May by two opposition parliamentary parties — the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) and the Democratic Party ( DS ) — and the Serbian Liberal Party and the New Democracy-Movement for Serbia .
4 Reports of fighting in the strategic southern town of Malakal , the capital of Upper Nile province , which had been reported in late October as clashes between the rebel Sudan People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) and government forces [ see p. 39132 ] , were confused by conflicting accounts during November .
5 Autumn movements , whether passage or the arrival of winter visitors , have been noted between late August and mid-November and spring movements or departures between mid-March and 13 May .
6 Gold has been recorded in late Precambrian diorites in Charnwood Forest near Leicester , on the north-eastern margin of the Midlands Microcraton .
7 There were also two in Chichester Harbour in December 1963 , and the species has been recorded in late October , November and January in the past .
8 ( The July OPEC production ceiling , set at a total of just under 22,500,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , had been suspended since late August — see p. 37641 — and the Financial Times of Dec. 14 estimated that current overall OPEC output was 400,000 bpd above the ceiling , despite the loss of 4,300,000 bpd of Iraqi and Kuwaiti exports . )
9 An economic embargo had been established in late March , and in early May the government had attempted to increase the pressure by declaring a 50-mile " exclusion zone " around the island , from which all ships and aircraft would be prohibited .
10 After a year marked by sharp fluctuations in the price of gold , a floor at approximately $365 a troy ounce appeared to have been established by late December .
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