Use the present perfect continuous if possible; if not, use the present perfect or past simple. Indicate where more than one of these tenses is possible. b. Kenneth Sparks, the Opposition spokesperson for science, talks to a television interviewer: The previous government (1) _______ (invest) huge amounts of money into the Centre and I think it's terrible that the present government (2) _______ (announce) this cut when the number of cases of influenza (3) _______ (increase). The Centre (4) _______ (run) successfully for many years. But this decision is just typical of this government. It (5) _______ (neglect) health research ever since it was elected, and (6) _______ (cut) back on spending on science generally. Although the government says that the cut is necessary because of the recent world economic problems, I (7) _______ (find) evidence that they (8) _______ (plan) this for some time. I (9) _______ (speak) to the Minister about this yesterday and (10) _______ (also write) to the Prime Minister demanding that the decision should be reversed.

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