Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] past few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1	Cinestra offers a regular training programme , and for the past few years has operated a highly successful bursary scheme for new video makers which also offers practical production experience for the women they train .
2	And for the past few months , I 've been reading Viz.
3	Nevertheless , the model has inspired much detailed historical research — indeed it has contributed substantially to the progress of economic and social history — and in the past few decades , partly as a result of the publication of previously inaccessible manuscripts of Marx , there have been some valuable contributions to Marxist scholarship addressed to the kinds of problem that I have indicated , concerning modes of production , tribal ( that is , primitive communal ) societies , historical sequences , and the relation of political power to forms of society .
4	The Colonel always sought her out on the Thursday of her visit , and in the past few years he had , in the most circumspect manner , pressed his suit .
5	He is entirely right about the British contribution to Europe , both in the long term and in the past few years when much of the present shape of the Community has arisen from initiatives by this country .
6	And in the past few years we 've had to go into clearing as most other universities would do .
7	Plus this means that the strike committee can go public with it 's grievances , and in the past few days , the farmers and the authorities have been debating the issues on local television .
8	Most of this required data is found in a dictionary , and over the past few years more paper dictionaries have become available in machine-readable form .
9	It was a disgraceful affair and over the past few years there have been far too many riots in our prisons .
10	And over the past few days it had developed an infuriating habit of wandering unerringly back to the subject of Adam Burns .

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