Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems with the New Age Travellers also helped confirm the fears of nearby villagers who have been trying to get the festival stopped for the past year . |
| 2 | I must take this opportunity to say a personal thank you to each and everyone of you for your kind support and all the good wishes that I have received during the past six months . |
| 3 | This project attempts to answer these questions , concentrating on computer programmers and systems analysts and building on the base of information gathered during the past few years at Bristol . |
| 4 | Only inhabited for the past two hundred years , the unique flora and fauna of these delightfully unsophisticated island have been allowed to evolve undisturbed over the past 600 million years , yielding a unique heritage of birds and blooms encompassing the spectrum 's every colour . |
| 5 | 20–6 Mrs McIver , wife of the Moderator , asked to be relieved of the duty of leader of praise which she had undertaken for the past two years . |
| 6 | Corporate profits have fallen for the past three years . |
| 7 | As you will see the Q.T. days for the 1989/90 programme have been arranged with one day at the beginning of each term , as requested by you the teachers , and reflect the requests and feed-back given during the past year . |
| 8 | Running like this , with the mad south-west wind behind her , gave her a glorious sense of freedom , for her exercise had been terribly limited for the past five weeks . |
| 9 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 10 | As we come to the end of this Parliament , will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to give us some insight into the Government 's long-term policy which has been formulated during the past 13 years ? |
| 11 | CHEMICALS group Courtaulds has come through the past year with a 3pc profits rise but is far from confident market conditions will be any easier in 1993 . |
| 12 | This ‘ individualistic approach ’ , however , has been increasingly modified during the past hundred years . |
| 13 | I WAS once interviewed for a radio programme on BBC and was asked how deaf people had fared during the past 20 years . |
| 14 | Cases considered during the past year have been concluded as shown in the panel . |
| 15 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 16 | Among ‘ tow-away ’ thefts reported during the past week were a Cubuto digger and trailer worth £5,000 which went from a Welsh Water compound in Abergele Road , Rhuddlan , and an Ivor Williams trailer belonging to Clwyd County Council which was unhitched from a van in Maesmawr Road , Llangollen . |
| 17 | A dark , handsome face stayed in her mind , the present man mixed with the past dream . |
| 18 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 19 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 20 | One in six residents of the New Cross estate have been attacked in the past two years , and a quarter have been hit by break-ins , a recent council survey showed . |
| 21 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 22 | Non-standard types of work such as part-time and contract jobs and self-employment have boomed in the past decade . |
| 23 | A report claims that complaints about Britain 's rail services have quadrupled in the past decade to reach a record high . |
| 24 | In essence , the description of the reflex pathway is a miniature narrative but generalised as a typical activity by the use of the present tense whereas a fictional narrative is almost invariably reported in the past tense . |
| 25 | From memory , I believe that six incidents have been reported in the past year . |
| 26 | At present the authorities in Berlin are having difficulty coping with those who have arrived so far , though no more than 1,100 or so have come in the past few days . |
| 27 | I ca n't believe how far I have come in the past couple of years . |
| 28 | The Minister said that the peak age for offending has risen to 18 from 15 , but he chose the end of the two-year period that I would describe as covering the most vulnerable young people on whom the Government have picked in the past 12 years . |
| 29 | In October the Russian Orthodox Bishops ' Council said that nearly 3,000 church buildings had been reopened in the past 18 months , bringing the number of working parishes to 9,734 ; the number of theological students had doubled to 3,948 . |
| 30 | The realization that these three systems can interact , and the identification of the mechanisms involved , has only come within the past few years . |