Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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1 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
2 | Much of Rhône-Poulenc 's effort in 199 was focused on integrated the large number of acquisitions it has made over the past five years . |
3 | I very much hope that the hospital to which the hon. Gentleman referred will be able to consolidate further the remarkable progress that it has made over the past couple of years — a 56 per cent . |
4 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the excellent report of Lancaster health authority , a copy of which I sent him , showing the immense progress that it has made during the past year — all within its budget ? |
5 | Will the Minister commend Lagan college in my constituency for the progress that it has made in the past 10 years ? |
6 | Top choice was still MS-DOS with Windows , with 44% ; the 18 percentage points it has lost in the past six months have all gone to Windows NT and OS/2 . |
7 | The next issue of Action will carry more information on the closure of IMP and the growth of the media programmes it has launched over the past 15 years . |
8 | The Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens announced on June 16 that the government had officially tied the franc to the D-Mark , formalizing the practice it had followed for the past four years . |
9 | Her collarbone was ambushing her with surprise guerrilla raids of searing pain while her head was screaming revenge for the ordeals it had undergone during the past twelve hours . |
10 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |