Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [art] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Corporate profits have fallen for the past three years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 8 | ‘ We have been threatened for the past three or four years . |
| 9 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 10 | But concentrating all attention on the pus cells , as researchers have done for the past 20 years , is perhaps to miss the most important elements of process . |
| 11 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 12 | They tend , as they have done for the past fifty years , to respond to the events of the day without projecting forward the effects of their policies for the necessary 18–24 months . |
| 13 | The location was unusual : the consulting room of a medical specialist where I was to learn the cause of the unacceptably high level of pain from which my sister has suffered for the past five years . |
| 14 | Nor is this untypical ; statistics prepared for the past four years present the same picture . |
| 15 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 16 | Sandra 's friends would all be so much younger than herself , and then she heard that the guest list comprised all age groups and included many of her old local friends whom she had n't seen for the past two years , and so she decided to go . |
| 17 | Used for the past couple of years in their mainstream freestanding CD players , Technics 's single-bit converter system MASH ( Multi-Stage Noise Shaping ) has now found its way into a new portable machine , the SL-XPS900 . |
| 18 | This site has been used for the past couple of years without any problems . |
| 19 | NORPLANT gives cover against getting pregnant for up to five years and has been used for the past decade abroad . |
| 20 | God , thought Dalziel as he had frequently thought for the past twenty years , you 're the most miserable-looking bugger I ever saw . |
| 21 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |
| 22 | In France , fetal liver transplantation has been performed for the past 16 years , with encouraging , if preliminary , results . |
| 23 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |
| 24 | Your flat 's been bugged for the past two months . ’ |
| 25 | CLAIRE , as pale as the winter daybreak she will never see again , sits on her bed wheezing through the oxygen mask she has worn for the past three months . |
| 26 | It has been rumoured for the past year that there are moves afoot to remove Cork from the list of Tarmac championship rounds . |
| 27 | This is something we have all known for the past few months . |
| 28 | All I know is what I have known for the past two years : there is no reason at all for the blindness . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll cope , I expect , I 've coped for the past year … ’ |
| 30 | His texts were like epic editions of the famous WFMT Chicago radio show he has hosted for the past 35 years , in which he encourages but never intrudes . |