Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
| 2 | The selling franchise arrangement has operated quite successfully for the past eight years , and Argent Distributors have grown at a steady pace during this period , as can be seen from the sales turnover figures . |
| 3 | They live wild , occasionally returning to the park , and have bred successfully for the past six years . |
| 4 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 5 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 6 | I have n't noticed Reg writing much for the past few minutes , though . |
| 7 | It had even caused Dad to get in touch with her ( although apparently for the past three or four years , he had been collecting cuttings … ) |
| 8 | In addition Fujitsu has created an average of five new software subsidiaries annually for the past three years . |
| 9 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 10 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 11 | So for the past year , I 've sat on the Labour Party Trade Union Review Group , a working party set up in the heat of an election defeat , to defuse a potentially damaging row about the strange phenomenon in the party of Labour . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 15 | We have been working together for the past three days . |
| 16 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 17 | Many have been homeless , not just for the past six months but for several years and they have been pushed from pillar to post within that area . |
| 18 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 19 | Many beekeepers have been examining their bees carefully for the past few years in efforts to find the mite . |
| 20 | Hey now for the past three mornings I 've got up out of bed , I 've made you a cup of tea every morning and breakfast on a tray , so do n't you come complaining to me . |
| 21 | The Anglesey scheme operated for over 30 years , albeit rather intermittently for the past few years . |
| 22 | Then Lady Walters and Miss Rosamond Wynn-Pope who is the indefatigable honorary organiser , and has run this ball so efficiently for the past fifteen years , drew the winning tickets for the raffle . |
| 23 | The shop bell had tinkled frequently for the past hour , most of the customers having been the ha'penny and penny ones , some of whom were now standing outside at the shop window oohing and aahing at the Christmas goodies displayed there , all entwined with coloured streamers and illuminated by the two gas lamps attached to the side wall of the shop and plopping inside their pretty pink glass globes , while casting a rosy light overall , even over the small faces pressed against the window . |
| 24 | After all , it 's served you well for the past few hours and may now be looking forward to you treating it . |
| 25 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 27 | Other British artists currently on in New York include James Nares ( who probably qualifies as a New Yorker by now , having lived here for the past fifteen years ) at Kasmin ; Tony Bevan , a figurative painter who often does self-portraits at Louver ( both shows until 20 March ) ; and Eric Snell , a Londoner , at Esman ( until 27 March ) . |
| 28 | There , the hosts are our Tuscan expert Mario Baiocchi and the Anichini family whose ancestors have lived here for the past 300 years . |
| 29 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 30 | Sally and Graham have a two-year-old son and a five-year-old daughter and have babysat for their neighbours ' three children regularly for the past year . |