Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we can get some action on the ground to tackle rights of way issues , we 'll be able to deal with the kinds of conflicts we 've seen in the past decade . |
| 2 | We 've lost over the past two years or , two or three years we 've lost about 60 per cent of our biggest trading accounts through soft loans from the big brewers . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a measure of how much progress we 've made in the past 18 months . ’ |
| 4 | Use our Best Buys tables , starting on page 150 , to compare the products we 've reviewed over the past year . |
| 5 | Use our Best Buys tables , starting on page 150 , to compare the products we 've reviewed over the past year . |
| 6 | This month , our Top Ten features the best 486SX machines we 've reviewed over the past 18 months , and it 's all designed to make your buying decisions easier . |
| 7 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 8 | A committee of professors , who were also our teachers , would judge us on the marks we had had during the past four years , especially this last year , and award diplomas accordingly . |
| 9 | So it , it was , I suppose we have to say in the past tense , it was , the National Anthem of Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | We have heard throughout the past year from one Labour Member after another about how their areas of spending have a high priority . |
| 11 | We have heard in the past week of places where there is no peace ; in Iraq , in South Africa , in our own country with sectarian killings in Ulster , and on the borders of Israel and the Lebanon . |
| 12 | Sadly , a whole generation of political leaders — and even some of their successors today , if what we have heard in the past two days is right — have failed to face up to that fact . |
| 13 | ‘ What we have done over the past two years is to improve on our ability to retain the ball in contact , to drive very successfully as units ( as the All Blacks found to their cost in Lille ) and to deep those drives going . |
| 14 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 15 | What we have witnessed over the past decade is the emergence of a whole host of competing and conflicting forms of local politics — different places have begun , in political terms , to behave very differently and British politics is now characterized by diversity rather than homogeneity . |
| 16 | Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that if politicians in Northern Ireland had been sitting at a table , the awful atrocities that we have witnessed in the past few days would not have taken place ? |
| 17 | The question is whether we protect those young people from the recognition of the information that we have accumulated in the past two or three decades . |
| 18 | We have created in the past decade English Heritage and the National Heritage Memorial Fund to give greater focus and drive to the Government 's policies . |
| 19 | THE EXCITING new astronomical knowledge we have gained over the past decade has come largely from satellites . |
| 20 | That is why it will try to con the public that it will not repeal most of the trade union reforms that we have made in the past 12 years . |
| 21 | That shows the progress that we have made in the past 12 years in taking education and training forward . |
| 22 | In this paper we describe the results of restorative proctocolectomy in 18 patients over the age of 50 whom we have treated in the past six years and compare them with the results achieved in younger patients . |
| 23 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the reductions in personal taxation have played a major role in the revival of enterprise and the increase in risk taking , productivity and output that we have achieved in the past decade ? |
| 24 | Devolved government in the form of Scottish and Welsh assemblies and regional government will make for much more open government than we have had in the past 12 years . |
| 25 | In spite of the reduced and indeed reducing turnover that we have had in the past 12 months , 1992 provided a better financial result than the previous year . |
| 26 | We now find that , because we have failed in the past 10 or 12 years , to recognise the need for clean coal technology and support the schemes that were in operation , it will take eight to 10 years for plants to become operative and produce clean coal . |
| 27 | Such comments come a bit rich from the Opposition , when they have opposed each and every training initiative that we have introduced during the past 12 years and when we are spending two and a half times as much in real terms as the Labour Government did . |
| 28 | Since the 1972 Act , there have been many additional authorities to Brussels through European Court judgments , individual directives and the implications and effects of the Single European Act , quite apart from the effect of the treaties which we have agreed in the past two days but which have yet to be ratified by Parliament . |