Example sentences of "[been] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 2 | Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years . |
| 3 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 4 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 5 | Every night was a milestone , and had been for the past fifteen years . |
| 6 | ‘ Considerable amounts are being spent on replacing them with better services , and have been for the past few years . |
| 7 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 8 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 9 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 10 | Where have you been for the past four hours ? ’ |
| 11 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 12 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 13 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
| 14 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 15 | Sec. in his report remarked on the high level of activity there has been during the past year . |
| 16 | Dire though the attacks on Belfast have been during the past two months , it is a sign of just how successful economic development has been that the IRA should have felt it necessary to retaliate in the way that it has . |
| 17 | LM It is very easy in the kind of society Czechoslovakia has been in the past twenty years to lose a more general perspective on events . |
| 18 | I dread to think where the pound would have been in the past few days if I had followed the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 19 | An international panel of climate experts , chaired by Dr John Houghton , director of the Meteorological Office , have warned that global temperatures will rise by 0.3C each decade , making the planet warmer than it has been in the past 10,000 years . |
| 20 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 21 | They have been over the past few days erm usually it was chocolate and apricot . |