Example sentences of "in the past [num] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past two articles we 've seen how double stops can be derived from chords , and also some different approaches for incorporating double stops into your playing . |
| 2 | Because trying to meet this criterion has occupied so much of my research time in the past two decades it is worth spelling out again that to adopt a reductionist methodology in research strategy — that is , to try to stabilize the world that one is studying by manipulating one variable at a time , holding everything else as constant as possible — is generally the only way to do experiments from which one can draw clear conclusions . |
| 3 | ‘ This is n't the first time in the past two years he 's stalked out of our house in a jealous rage , swearing that this time our relationship is over for good . ’ |
| 4 | Gail Rebuck commented : ‘ In the past two years I have witnessed Frances ’ excellent editorial judgement coupled with marketing flair and her consensus seeking management style that has helped secure so many important books … ’ |
| 5 | In the past two years I have stayed with my friends in another part of the country and we travelled together to an island , a famous hill and many other interesting places . |
| 6 | In the past two years it has become much harder in America to use the private method of dealing with distress . |
| 7 | In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 . |
| 8 | In the past two days we have heard a lot about students . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Stevens , this is the fourth or fifth time in the past two days you have felt such a need . |
| 10 | In the past two weeks he has made four trips abroad , including the current North America tour . |
| 11 | In the past two weeks he has had to scrummage against Scotland 's World Cup looseheads , David Sole and David Milne : ‘ They certainly got the better of me but I like to think that I am learning all the time and that that will lead to my improvement ’ . |
| 12 | In the past two weeks he had had enough of being outgoing , talking to strangers , spending time money and love of a sort . |
| 13 | And in the past four decades we 've lost half of it . |
| 14 | That 's the second time in the past four weeks we 've had missed that . |
| 15 | That 's the second time in the past four weeks we 've had missed that |
| 16 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 17 | In the past six months I 've worn a pair for a variety of purposes , from rock climbing to trekking , from gardening to pubbing and they 're still presentable . |
| 18 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 19 | In the past eighteen months he has felt at an appallingly low ebb . |
| 20 | After all , if anyone has flourished in the past 13 years it has been the supermarkets . |
| 21 | In the past three decades we might say that , in Scott Fitzgerald 's words , ‘ life was being refined down to a point ’ , in this case the point of increasing material consumption ; or , to put the matter in more political terms , that the industrialized societies , both capitalist and socialist , were developing the kind of narrow and obsessive orientation which Tawney ( 1921 , pp. 106–7 ) criticized when he wrote that : |
| 22 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
| 23 | ‘ In the past three years we have provided NSF with $600 million for the high-performance computing initiative ’ , says Kevin Kelly , an aide to Senator Barbara Mikulski ( Democrat , Maryland ) , who is chair of the appropriations subcommittee that controls the budgets of NSF , NASA , the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies . |
| 24 | In the past three years we 've adopted a three percent turnover . |
| 25 | In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities . |
| 26 | ‘ In the past 50 years we 've done a great deal of abolition . |
| 27 | In the past 20 years we have gained enormously from our membership of the Community . |
| 28 | In the past 30 days you have been training your body to work at its optimum potential ; and you will now have a good idea of what you can achieve by using the Walking Diet recipes and aerobic walking . |
| 29 | If we look into the history of Iraq I do n't think anybody can remember in the past twenty years they have contributed anything , neither in the terms of world economy , neither in the world of world peace , or any humanitarian |
| 30 | In the past 12 months he has improved immensely to become one of the best in the world and to confirm Imran 's earlier forecasts . |