Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the past " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was revealed last night that Acklam Park in Middlesbrough a regular venue for Yorkshire County Cricket Club for the past 30 years is the subject of an offer from supermarket giants Argyll . |
| 32 | It has clearly been in hibernation as well as in opposition for the past 12 years . |
| 33 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 34 | The Council 's Audit Department and Thames Valley police have been investigating the fraud for the past fortnight . |
| 35 | I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations ! |
| 36 | It does not follow that he could not say , ‘ You must now pay me the arrears of rent for the past year . ’ |
| 37 | Sharon has been taking evening classes at college for the past two years . |
| 38 | The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks ! |
| 39 | This idea has been applied to the African Plate which , according to some analyses of plate motions , appears to have been almost stationary with respect to the underlying asthenosphere for the past 25–35 Ma . |
| 40 | The issue had been a principal if intermittent source of internal dispute and disruption for the past twenty years . |
| 41 | MEGADETH have revealed they 've been in group therapy for the past three years . |
| 42 | The Irish in Britain Representation Group led a march from Whittington Park calling for the release of the Birmingham 6 and the Guildford 4 , who have been protesting their innocence for the past 14 years . |
| 43 | The 24-year-old , leading scorer for the past four seasons , was unsettled by a £3.5 million offer from Manchester United . |
| 44 | Despite being without the suspended Hirst , Wednesday 's leading scorer for the past four seasons , Francis fully expects to progress into the next round . |
| 45 | The laser has been developed and built in Banbury … its been undergoing sea tests on the south coast for the past few months … |
| 46 | Originally from California , Toni has been striving to achieve musical recognition for the past ten years , playing in LA bands and doing backing vocals for Berlin . |
| 47 | Self-employed John , 48 , from Dublin said : ‘ I 've been in the international scene for the past few years . |
| 48 | I said , ‘ You have n't seen my work for the past year , have you ? ’ |
| 49 | She 'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half . |
| 50 | Judith Jones , his editor for the past 15 years , said Mr Hersey not only wrote , but fought for the rights of all authors and was active until the end . |
| 51 | Tonight the sun shone through elegant Regency stripes of red and cream instead of through the chintz which had hung at the window for the past month . |
| 52 | He still retains a keen interest in criminal justice , and has chaired the ADSW 's criminal justice services committee for the past three years . |
| 53 | Marian has been the Cork Area Ladies ' Representative on the Executive Committee for the past two years . |
| 54 | ‘ Do n't you fucking well know that the enemy have been mortaring the village green for the past four or five minutes while you have been playing those fucking bagpipes ? ’ |
| 55 | Ella Bembridge was a formidably hearty spinster of fifty-five who had lived , with a wilting friend of much the same age , in a small cottage on the Lulling corner of Thrush Green for the past ten years . |
| 56 | It 's been running a similar pilot scheme at the Radcliffe Infirmary for the past eighteen months and says consultants are enthusiastic about the results . |
| 57 | This airworthy Mitchell , which has been grounded within the Museum for the past five years , is expected to attract a lot of interest from the Australian warbird community . |
| 58 | The voice of sport for the past quarter of a century will be approaching 71 when the next Olympic torch arrives in Atlanta in 1996 . |
| 59 | The Thurston Upper School pupil is a member of the Stowmarket Kyokushinkai Club and has only taken part in the sport for the past three years , progressing from third to runner-up to national champion at his last championships as a junior . |
| 60 | She could see it in the covert glances of the London girls , some of whom had been planning how to look at the Belvoir dance for the past month . |