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

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1 He had become used to much worse than that during the past few weeks .
2 She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark .
3 While this growth is less spectacular than that of the past few years , the cumulative impact is significant .
4 I could say all the right words about Hilda , I 'd learned to do that in the past few days , talking to people on the phone , but I could n't believe in the phrases the way Susan seemed to .
5 She had done enough of that over the past few weeks , and had found that it led nowhere .
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