Example sentences of "has [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 2 | Its leader , Slobodan Milosevic ( ‘ Slobo ’ to his friends ) , has for the past three years resisted any idea of a looser Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | Yes once again the Village Fete sees our Fanciful Pretender ready to join the procession as he has for the past 15 years . |
| 4 | Those musical orbits described by the fertile planets of Loose Tubes and the Jazz Warriors dominated the polls , with Andy Sheppard continuing to make his individual mark as he has in the past two years . |
| 5 | Even so , the bulk of the increase would have to come from improved yields , as it has in the past three decades . |
| 6 | Pressure from the people , and from the French government , has in the past few weeks nudged some neighbouring West African dictatorships the same way . |
| 7 | On behalf of all her fans , I would like to wish her the best of luck in 1992 and hope that she will carry on in the dedicated way she has in the past year or so . |
| 8 | In the case of Skelton , it has in the past ten years experienced significant residential development . |
| 9 | This attractive hill village has in the past decade become favoured as a " dormitory suburb " for people employed in Thun . |
| 10 | I would emphasize first , here speaking as one who has in the past given evidence on behalf of the Government , that the value of the scrutiny process is in part that it forces those with more direct power to consider their positions and their arguments carefully and to defend them in the face of public questioning by a Committee whose members may have long experience of the subject-matter involved . |
| 11 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 12 | FKB , the UK 's largest independent sales promotion company , has over the past 15 months made half a dozen US acquisitions . |