Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He is nevertheless expected to have an easy win in the Lyons constituency he has represented for the past 13 years . |
| 6 | In a statement issued in Bonn , he stressed ‘ the importance that Western countries lend to the continuation of the reform process that President Yeltsin has represented for the past one and a half years ’ . |
| 7 | It was this need that led to the setting up of an annual programme of three two-week radio training workshops , which WACC has supported for the past two years . |
| 8 | Strong political statements commenting on Ireland where she has lived for the past two years . |
| 9 | Even conceding that the drugs trade generates large flows of cash , the idea that the Mafia is a single , stable organisation which has survived for the past 50 years largely intact is plainly wrong . |
| 10 | In Guatemala , a beautiful country with a superficial air of tranquillity , the civil war has lasted for the past 30 years . |
| 11 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
| 12 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |
| 13 | I mean it seems a bit ironic in that how that what the Communist Party had been striving to eliminate for the past twenty years , they 're now going back to recreating differences in society , but the most fundamental change is that how feudalism has gone . |
| 14 | After training as an actress , she taught herself to paint , which she has continued to do for the past thirty years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll cope , I expect , I 've coped for the past year … ’ |
| 18 | According to the police , Fernandez told the investigating magistrates today he had trained for the past six months for the assault . |
| 19 | By 1922 the team of brilliant men who had governed for the past six years could not but see themselves as irreplaceable . |
| 20 | The Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens announced on June 16 that the government had officially tied the franc to the D-Mark , formalizing the practice it had followed for the past four years . |
| 21 | Well I 've worked for the past two year really |
| 22 | Moreover she had changed trains three times , because it is an awkward , cross-country journey from Chetwynd Magna to St Petrock's-on-Sea , where the O'Briens had lived for the past six years . |
| 23 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 24 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |
| 25 | The post of Vice-President , which Cotti had held for the past year , was taken by René Felber ( Social Democratic Party — SPS ) , Minister for Political ( Foreign ) Affairs . |
| 26 | William was employed in the Maintenance Department on General Service Duties , a position he had held for the past two years . |
| 27 | Corporate profits have fallen for the past three years . |
| 28 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |