Sentence examples for been in the general from inspiring English sources

He said the infected inmate had been in the general population.

If the officers had been in the general area, they might have spotted people moving toward the site of the melee, officials said.

Her first opportunity to cast a vote would have been in the General Election of 1929, after women and men had been given equal entitlement the previous year.

He had been in the general area for much of the day and appears to have been trying to get back to his residence but, because of the police cordons, was finding it difficult to do so.

Widgery said there was no photographic evidence of what had happened to Mr Wray, but he had been in the general vicinity of where soldiers claimed that civilians had opened fired.

This is in spite of the fact that in the UK (and in several other countries) the biggest growth in palliative care services has been in the general hospital sector.

"They're in the general population.

It's not enough to be in the general vicinity.

"People don't realize the danger we are in," the general insists.

His research interests are in the general area of signal processing and its applications.

And once mental patients are in the general prison population, advocates say, many have trouble adjusting.