Example sentences of "past [adj] month [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 2 | Sir , — In the past few months we have heard much regarding possible reforms in the working of parliament . |
| 3 | Over the past few months we 've been advising you to take all the hype about the death of the 386 with a generous pinch of salt . |
| 4 | I am glad to report that in the past few months we have made real progress with the car manufacturers . |
| 5 | Over the past few months we have welcomed several new staff : |
| 6 | Over the past few months we 've seen a far higher proportion of our own borrowers being first time buyers , okay at very low levels , but er a much higher proportion being first time buyers . |
| 7 | Over the past few months they have been told that their primary and community health care is awful ; now the government tells them that accident and emergency departments will shut , along with 2000-odd hospital beds , when their immediate evidence is that it is hard to get into hospital . |
| 8 | In the past few months he has sided with those in the party and the army who have long wanted a crackdown . |
| 9 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 10 | Over the past few months I have noticed a slight decrease in the amount of information being sent for publication in Touchline . |
| 11 | In the past few months it has become clear to Her Majesty that her own children have spectacularly failed in their duty to the Crown . |
| 12 | For the past few months it 's been more or less constantly at the limit — the £300,000 cheque put it unacceptably over . " |
| 13 | During the past 12 months they have spent more and more time apart . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Sunnie was so full of life and in the past 12 months she and Jackie have lived a whole new lifetime together . ’ |
| 15 | In the past 12 months he has improved immensely to become one of the best in the world and to confirm Imran 's earlier forecasts . |
| 16 | In the past six months I 've worn a pair for a variety of purposes , from rock climbing to trekking , from gardening to pubbing and they 're still presentable . |
| 17 | Inquiries among certain dealers in this country have established that while Saatchi has been selling extremely heavily during the past six months he has actually bought very little British art . |
| 18 | During the past three months I have purchased from the Institute two publications . |
| 19 | For the past three months I 've had an irritating itch in my lower pubic region . |
| 20 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 21 | Over the past 18 months they have been arriving , hundreds at a time , crammed into cargo space and sometimes half-starved during a circuitous voyage . |
| 22 | Over the past 18 months we have launched a number of products offering opportunities for existing customers . |
| 23 | For the past nine months it has been involved in a nightly Royal Mail operation out of the airport . |
| 24 | Over the past twelve months it has been my great privilege to become more closely involved with those with disabilities , I have seen the enormous efforts being made to encourage participation at a very high competitive level as well as tremendous strides being made at many clubs to bring disabled people into sailing at all levels . |
| 25 | In the past eighteen months he has felt at an appallingly low ebb . |
| 26 | one man who 's been losing pounds to go on the rally is Ade Jeffries from Gloucester … for the past two months he 's been in the local gym geting fit … he 's lost nearly two stone … |
| 27 | Over the past two months I 've dealt with what you need to look out for when buying a computer and how to tell if the machine you intend to buy is well built . |