Example sentences of "in the past [adj] [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the past two years it has become much harder in America to use the private method of dealing with distress . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After all , if anyone has flourished in the past 13 years it has been the supermarkets . |
| 5 | In the past few months it has become clear to Her Majesty that her own children have spectacularly failed in their duty to the Crown . |
| 6 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
| 7 | In the past few years it has become clear that the small intestine is also damaged by NSAIDs . |