Example sentences of "[verb] during the past " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | I must take this opportunity to say a personal thank you to each and everyone of you for your kind support and all the good wishes that I have received during the past six months . |
2 | ‘ My money problems are only temporary , I 'd learn to drive if I only had time for the lessons , and you 'd be surprised at how many gadgets I 've learned to use and even repair during the past four years . |
3 | This project attempts to answer these questions , concentrating on computer programmers and systems analysts and building on the base of information gathered during the past few years at Bristol . |
4 | As you will see the Q.T. days for the 1989/90 programme have been arranged with one day at the beginning of each term , as requested by you the teachers , and reflect the requests and feed-back given during the past year . |
5 | As we come to the end of this Parliament , will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to give us some insight into the Government 's long-term policy which has been formulated during the past 13 years ? |
6 | She must be losing her marbles , because she 'd absolutely no recollection of what had been happening during the past few minutes … ! |
7 | This ‘ individualistic approach ’ , however , has been increasingly modified during the past hundred years . |
8 | I WAS once interviewed for a radio programme on BBC and was asked how deaf people had fared during the past 20 years . |
9 | Cases considered during the past year have been concluded as shown in the panel . |
10 | Among ‘ tow-away ’ thefts reported during the past week were a Cubuto digger and trailer worth £5,000 which went from a Welsh Water compound in Abergele Road , Rhuddlan , and an Ivor Williams trailer belonging to Clwyd County Council which was unhitched from a van in Maesmawr Road , Llangollen . |
11 | Here and there minor changes in field boundaries may have been made during the past 150 or 200 years , but on the whole the enclosure map lays down the present-day pattern exactly . |
12 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the excellent report of Lancaster health authority , a copy of which I sent him , showing the immense progress that it has made during the past year — all within its budget ? |
13 | Significant changes have been made during the past few months . |
14 | It has recently announced a likely 30,000 job losses in the years ahead , on top of the 26,000 or so redundancies made during the past three years . |
15 | The types of problem on which advice and assistance was sought during the past year is surprisingly , and perhaps regrettably , consistent with the experience of previous years … people who are eligible for advice and assistance are still accustomed to consult solicitors for a comparatively narrow range of problems . ’ |
16 | I 'd also like to add a great thanks to the retiring executive committee for all the hard work that they 've done during the past year . |
17 | Her collarbone was ambushing her with surprise guerrilla raids of searing pain while her head was screaming revenge for the ordeals it had undergone during the past twelve hours . |
18 | We will continue to work strenuously for a political agreement which is acceptable to all the parties involved in the talks which the Secretary of State has had during the past year with the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland the Government of the Republic of Ireland . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | All of this happened during the past ten years . |
21 | South African breeders are now concentrating on increasing its size and weight for age and it has been exported during the past 80 years to most beef-producing countries , especially in southern and eastern Africa . |
22 | However , investigations have been made into corporate crashes that have occurred during the past two decades . |
23 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
24 | That policy , like that of the Government and the official Opposition , is at present under review because of the enormous changes that have occurred during the past two years . |
25 | Figures 11.7 and 11.8 show how these patterns have been reflected during the past decade , in England , in A level passes held by school leavers . |
26 | At a Sept. 5 news conference Afewerki accused France , Egypt and Saudi Arabia of fostering " conflict on the borders and the blackmail we have been facing during the past three months " . |
27 | However , his reputation had been seriously damaged during the past year by a scandal involving his younger brother Juan Guerra González [ see p. 37263 ] , whose conduct had been the subject of a judicial investigation , the results of which were due to be made public in the near future . |
28 | It is not so much a failure of one or other particular party , it is a failure of our culture to recognize the significance and importance of science and to elevate it within the nation more continuously and more substantially than governments of either party have chosen to do during the past 25 years . |
29 | A CHEQUE for £2,084.19 was presented to Newquay ladies ' guild by Newquay Pearl , the money being raised during the past year by the organisation of several specialist events in aid of the RNLI . |
30 | As many Tory candidates and canvassers noted during the past few days , thousands of voters were shrugging their shoulders and saying : ‘ We do n't like you , but ’ ( said with a sigh ) ‘ we 'll have to vote for you . |