Example sentences of "[prep] [art] past year " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know who 's been organising acid house parties for the past year . |
| 2 | The speech was all too unexciting , having travelled the country for the past year , and not noticeably improving with age . |
| 3 | The conservative Blaize , who died of prostate cancer and had been confined to a wheelchair for the past year , lost his parliamentary majority five months ago but had clung to office despite opposition protests . |
| 4 | Partly because for the past year the finance minister , Leszek Balcerowicz , and the former prime minister , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , stuck to a policy of preparing the nation for the worst . |
| 5 | But as the same people said that at every quarter day for the past year nobody took much notice . |
| 6 | Mr Don Dovaston , assistant chief constable of Derbyshire , issued the two men 's names 24 hours after releasing a photograph and identity of the third man — Joseph Magee , 26 , who lived in Derby with his wife and son for the past year after being released from jail in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 8 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 9 | A reader , disgruntled in large proportion , sat down to work out how much of his salary he would have to hand over to the Inland Revenue heavy mob for the past year . |
| 10 | The Environmental Protection Agency has been experiencing a mini-Watergate scandal for the past year , with no less than six Congressional committees investigating very serious charges against the top officers involving misuse of public funds and conflict of interest . |
| 11 | For the past year , the London Boroughs of Bromley , Bexley and Croydon ( BBC3 ) have been involved in cooperative training sessions within the field of work with young people . |
| 12 | You can almost hear the excitement pouring out of the Master as one of his pupils gets the hang of something he 's been teaching and modelling for the past year . |
| 13 | The Acting Reporter from Strathclyde , Gordon Sloan , who had filled in for the past year , would continue to look after the cases with which he had been involved . |
| 14 | For the past year , every flyer concerning hardcore/techno nights has featured the same line-up , and it 's become very tedious . |
| 15 | The town of Cerska , near the Serbian border , has been methodically shelled by the Serbs for the past year and has , at the same time , been denied food . |
| 16 | The 84-year-old Oscar-winner has been fighting a losing battle against failing sight for the past year . |
| 17 | In the wake of your SHOCK HEADED PETERS piece , I think you should know that Karl Blake has n't worked for British Rail for the past year and a half and is currently an art student in Sheffield . |
| 18 | One of the lads is proud of the fact that he has managed to avoid doing any writing for the past year or so ! |
| 19 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 20 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 21 | The bridge and router market has looked dangerously overcrowded for the past year , and the first big crack appeared yesterday when Proteon Inc fired 15% of its workforce after reporting a $2.7m first quarter net loss — including a $1.7m restructuring charge , on sales stalled , up just 5.6% at $27.7m . |
| 22 | Canadian systems integrator and facilities manager SHL Systemhouse Inc has purchased client-server consulting firm Advanced Management Systems CA , Caracas , Venezuela , for an undisclosed sum : AMS specialises in the petroleum , minerals extraction , finance and public utilities sectors , and has worked with SHL for the past year on a joint project for Maraven , a state-owned Venezuelan oil company ; the two companies developed and implemented a Domestic Marketing System to deal with order entry , distribution , and accounting issues for petroleum products in Venezuela ; the Ottawa , Canada-based SHL says that it is keen to expand into the rapidly developing Latin American market . |
| 23 | In its vast project to kick the mainframe habit and move to Unix-based client-server systems , Mead Corp 's database operator Mead Data Central Inc is spreading its favours around , and while some Unix business has gone to Hewlett-Packard Co , NCR Corp is also in there as a so-called strategic technology partner ( presumably its non-strategic technology partners are the people that supply the brooms they sweep the floor with ) as Mead moves existing applications off mainframes to a client-server environment : the two have been working together for the past year on projects to re-engineer access to the widely-used Lexis and Nexis on-line information services and create a new internal information system infrastructure and campus-wide network , and Mead is using NCR System 3000 symmetric multiprocessors and AT&T Co and NCR network products . |
| 24 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |
| 25 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been under withering fire for the past year or so from companies seduced into trying to build machines compatible with Sun 's own — and then finding that the company artfully withholds all the best bits for itself . |
| 26 | Unix System Laboratories Europe has appointed Irwan Owen as account manager for the UK and Ireland — for the past year he has been USL 's account manager for Italy . |
| 27 | In 1986 he became general manager for a private sector group 's residential and nursing homes and for the past year has been connected with the Bridge Hospital in Witham , involved with people with learning disabilities . |
| 28 | I said , ‘ You have n't seen my work for the past year , have you ? ’ |
| 29 | General Hodge reported that the reopening of the Joint Commission was a disappointment for Rhee and the extreme right in that they had campaigned vociferously for the past year against further American-Soviet discussion . |
| 30 | For recently the random eruptions and scattered pustules that had decked my chin and brows for the past year had begun to mass , forming formidably ugly scarps and weeping lesions . |