Example sentences of "[prep] the past [det] " in BNC.
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1 | For the past few weeks President Najibullah has been meeting militia commanders from around the country offering them more weapons and money to maintain their loyalty and keep the roads open . |
2 | This is the church which has been the centre of opposition in East Berlin for the past few weeks . |
3 | Self-employed John , 48 , from Dublin said : ‘ I 've been in the international scene for the past few years . |
4 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
5 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
6 | Goldman Sachs says its private-placement business in Europe has doubled every year for the past few years . |
7 | And for the past few months , I 've been reading Viz. |
8 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
9 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
10 | Many beekeepers have been examining their bees carefully for the past few years in efforts to find the mite . |
11 | Ironically , Mr Yeltsin 's studious absence from public view for the past few days forced the two parties to seek a solution and not wait for him to intervene . |
12 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
13 | For the past few days he had brought security into her child 's world of distorted perspectives and half comprehended fears . |
14 | The music has n't changed ; it 's been the same for the past few millennia . |
15 | Cinestra offers a regular training programme , and for the past few years has operated a highly successful bursary scheme for new video makers which also offers practical production experience for the women they train . |
16 | But theorists have already been busy for the past few years working on schemes that incorporate a third force , the strong nuclear force , with electroweak theory . |
17 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |
18 | A government supermarket in New Delhi has been selling 10 solar cookers every day for the past few months for about £20 each . |
19 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
20 | He could not explain it , but his putting had gone to pieces for the past few months and he was missing shots which formerly he would have holed with ease . |
21 | ‘ For the past few years I have built my life around rugby and I am happy to go on doing that until I ca n't go any further in the game ’ , he said . |
22 | After all , it 's served you well for the past few hours and may now be looking forward to you treating it . |
23 | This is something we have all known for the past few months . |
24 | For the past few years , Caterham has produced a new model every year , whether it be with a different engine , or new suspension or an entire new series such as the Rover K-Series . |
25 | Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior . |
26 | In fact she had been feeling tired and queasy for the past few days ; and that night , when the leading man laid her on the sofa , suddenly turned her head and , without letting the audience see , vomited quietly down the sofa back . |
27 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
28 | Mrs Phelps , who had been watching her with fascination for the past few weeks , now got up from her desk and went over to her . |
29 | He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract . |
30 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |