Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Baldessari is one of the crucial figures in the re-direction of approaches to the visual arts in the past two decades . |
| 2 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 3 | The farmers threatened to sue IBM and one , Jack Briscoe , whose farm was only a few hundred yards from the mine entrance , claimed to have lost 40 animals in the past ten years from toxic lead fallout from the mine 's operations . |
| 4 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 5 | The 21-year-old Nottingham-born Cole , signed from Arsenal for Pounds 500,000 in the summer , faces Wolves today hoping to improve on his tally of three goals in the past nine games . |
| 6 | Returning to England has restored his morale , but Wednesday have hardly looked invulnerable around him , conceding six goals in the past three games . |
| 7 | THERE is a certain symmetry in the evolution of the fortunes of the two major political parties in the past week . |
| 8 | In both Slovenia and Croatia there had been a proliferation of new political parties in the past year . |
| 9 | Dealers believe France has been forced to spend three-quarters of its foreign currency reserves in the past 24 hours . |
| 10 | In a report to next month 's General Assembly , the Kirk 's Board of Social Responsibility — the largest voluntary social work agency in Scotland — says it spent £1.5 million from its own reserves in the past 17 months to keep its 42 eventide homes going . |
| 11 | In addition , Britain 's total housing stock has increased by 2 million units in the past 12 years — a far higher rate of increase than that of the population as a whole . |
| 12 | However , because of the increased numbers of applicants applying to polytechnics in the past few years , it will most probably decide to implement such a scheme . |
| 13 | The export of motor cars in the past nine months is 90 per cent . |
| 14 | We 've had at least two opportunities in the past two years for reorganising our own structure . |
| 15 | The Premiership outfit , who have already built three new stands in the past 15 years , are drawing up plans to replace the old south stand which was built in the 1930s . |
| 16 | One estimate puts government losses in the past four weeks at 20,000 killed , captured or deserted . |
| 17 | Some of the more broadly-based share indices have suffered sharper losses in the past few weeks and analysts believe the Dow could soon match these declines . |
| 18 | The average cost per square foot provided here are national averages based on actual costs incurred by clients of leading package supplier Design and Materials Ltd , all of whom have completed their homes in the past six months . |
| 19 | A spokesman said there had been several raids on homes in the past few days by sneak thieves . |
| 20 | We have been one of the foremost supporters of the United Nations , and the Government have played the prime role in enhancing the position of the United Nations in the past few years . |
| 21 | in real terms over this period , and those pensioners will have benefited further since those statistics were compiled by the increases amounting to a third of a billion pounds that have been made in income support premiums in the past three years . |
| 22 | ‘ There have been a number of instances of disruption in these areas in the past couple of months directly due to the number of police on the streets , ’ he said . |
| 23 | According to Brussels-based research firm Expertronics , of 340 disclosed acquisitions involving European companies in the past three years , 135 were by UK-based companies . |
| 24 | ‘ We have only advertised two posts in the past year , the previous one attracted 300 applicants . ’ |
| 25 | Year-on-year figures released by the Japan Travel Bureau showed a growth of almost 20 per cent or 17 000 visitors in the past 12 months to the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | The report estimates that between $25 and $28 billion have been lost by Southern Africa Development Coordination Committee ( SADCC ) countries in the past six years as a result of destabilization , destruction of assets , enforced military expenditures , high transport costs and loss of output . |
| 27 | What those Heads of Government do not have is a record of losing 768,000 jobs in their countries in the past 12 months . |
| 28 | As I have said , we have seen enormous changes , but I advise my right hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench and all hon. Members who will continue to serve in Parliament in the coming years that the changes that have taken place in those countries in the past few years could well be repeated on an enormous scale in other countries . |
| 29 | The sharp growth in psychology and its associated controversies in the past decade , however , means that even the most introductory book has to recognise that what is a fact to one psychologist is a nonsense to others . |
| 30 | It is to be hoped that her business is now sufficiently stable to realise the opportunity , for she has clocked up three managing directors in the past few years . |