Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Women and Film ’ , to quote the title of E. Ann Kaplan 's ( 1983 ) important book on feminist film theory and criticism , defines a field of study which in the past fifteen to twenty years has been expanding rapidly . |
| 2 | I am thinking , for example , of the city of Belfast and other urban areas throughout Northern Ireland which in the past year have suffered more than ever from air pollution . |
| 3 | By the mid-nineteen fifties many Orcadians had begun the task of modernizing their homes by building new ones a process which over the past three decades seems to have gone on with ever increasing frenzy . |
| 4 | Supporters of the ANL in the NorthEast are particularly concerned about the ambitions of the BNP including the intention to field a General Election candidate in Darlington and racial attacks which in the past year have included nailing a pig 's head to a synagogue in Sunderland and a similar attack in South Shields . |
| 5 | The main assumptions of this debate are structured by concepts and social conventions which through the past centuries have helped us to understand reality : keywords of emerging bourgeois society like ‘ individual ’ , ‘ society ’ , ‘ state ’ , ‘ market ’ , ‘ democracy ’ have slightly different connotations in different Western societies and in different periods but — on the whole — form the common language with which we communicate about complex processes and attempt to understand and structure them . |
| 6 | Yet the young are living in an age which over the past year has become dramatically uncertain . |
| 7 | In 1985 he had set up a consultancy firm which in the past year had advised the government on privatization . |
| 8 | It covers much new material , including letters which have never before been published , a number of long lost works which in the past few years have resurfaced from museum storerooms in the former Soviet Union , and works newly discovered in international private collections . |
| 9 | However , the Treasury which in the past several weeks has been preparing economic forecasts for inclusion in the November autumn statement seems almost certain to revise down its estimates for economic growth next year . |