Example sentences of "in [art] past [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN the past two years the UDA has matched the IRA death-for-death and carried out some of Ulster 's most barbaric murders . |
| 2 | Editor , — On three occasions in the past two years the duty surgical team have contacted me while on call as duty psychiatrist with a view to giving consent to a surgical procedure on behalf of a patient . |
| 3 | In the past two weeks the administration has stepped up its campaign to encourage voluntary service . |
| 4 | In the past four years the reaction has become probably the most widely used single technique in all branches of the biological sciences . |
| 5 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
| 6 | But in the past five years the economy has been pulled along at an even faster pace than that merited by its industrial over-achievers . |
| 7 | However , it should be some consolation to the hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) that in the past five years the average sentence for rape has increased by 70 per cent . |
| 8 | Does not that show that , despite all the promises and pledges , in the past five years the Government have carried out a sorry and tragic charade and have connived at every stage with Black Bob Scholey to sell off the Scottish steel industry ? |
| 9 | The Gordon 's ‘ Green ’ campaign continues to be popular in the UK spirits market , using the famous green of the UK Gordon 's livery with a series of witty one liners ‘ Gordon Bennett ’ was a development of this theme in the important pre-Christmas period — the first multi-coloured version of the campaign This recent work gained the highest awareness of any UK spirits advertising in the past five years The ‘ Green ’ campaign continues to appeal to all age groups , but most significantly has continued to improve the brand 's attraction amongst young adults |
| 10 | And the situation is getting worse … in the past five years the number of reported cases of serious backpain has risen by forty percent . |
| 11 | Latest provisional figures for in-patients and day cases for September 1991 show that in the past six months the number of patients waiting over a year fell by 7 per cent . |
| 12 | In the past nine months the terror group — which boasts a bigger membership than the IRA — has murdered 14 people , two more than for the same period last year . |
| 13 | In the past twenty-five years the role of women on farms had changed dramatically . |
| 14 | In the past few months the Executive Committee has been considering most carefully a proposal of the Membership Working Party that in future all teachers , in addition to their membership subscription , should be asked to pay an Affiliation Fee . |
| 15 | In the past few months the complaints from my area from my customers that they are disgusted with the service they have received from Sports . |
| 16 | In the past few weeks the government has once again blocked an attempt to give disabled people legal protection against discrimination . |
| 17 | Yes , I welcome the substantial orders that have been received and I was pleased to see that in the past few days a number of them have come here . |
| 18 | Has my right hon. Friend noticed in the past few days the widespread support for our plans to seek better-quality services from councils ? |
| 19 | But in the past few years a phoenix has risen from the flames of Lakehurst . |
| 20 | In the Past few years a number of small streets have been closed to traffic , and car-parking has been prohibited from the four central reservations in Avenida Arriaga . |
| 21 | However , in the past few years a class of antigens has emerged that does not conform to this conventional pathway of antigen presentation . |
| 22 | IN THE past few years the laws forbidding the sale of alcohol to teenagers have been weakened , in the sense that they are neither as just nor as realistic as they were . |
| 23 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | In the past few years the appeal system has been successfully used to overcome the resistance of reluctant local authorities , and development has tended to proceed on an ad hoc basis with new centres sited where developers can acquire land easily rather than on the basis of any strategic plan . |
| 25 | On the other hand , in the past few years the number of students in further education colleges in Wales has increased very considerably . |
| 26 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 27 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 28 | Pregnancy and birth complications are 1.7 times more common in Arkhangelsk than in neighbouring districts , and in the past three years the incidence of cancer and blood diseases in children has risen threefold . |
| 29 | Is the Leader of the House aware that three times in the past 24 hours the Chancellor of the Exchequer has refused to answer direct questions about the Government 's plans for further increases in VAT ? |
| 30 | More than once in the past 50 years the concept of readability measurement and prediction has been castigated as facile and simplistic , despite the earnest attempts of most readability researchers themselves to portray their work in a balanced and untendentious way . |