Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grenada was the last tiny but bitter dreg in the constitutional cup which the United Kingdom has drained in the past thirty-five years ; and bravely , though not without a grimace of disgust , did we swallow it . |
| 2 | In contrast , the state has played little role in the protection of women against domestic violence although a very active voluntary sector has developed in the past 20 years . |
| 3 | There has developed in the past decade or two a mass audience for previously specialized cultural forms . |
| 4 | The number of one-parent families has grown in the past two decades increasing by almost 80 per cent between 1971 — when there were just over half a million one parent families — and 1986 when there were just over a million . |
| 5 | ‘ A company which has grown in the past two or three years may have been unable to move to larger premises , partly because it has been unable to pass on its present lease . |
| 6 | That is bound to affect employment , as shown by the number of business failures , which has risen in the past 12 months by 14,000 , and the number of mortgage repossessions , which has topped the 100,000 mark . |
| 7 | Drawing on a database covering nine million workers , the study finds that the number of pay freezes has risen in the past year from one in 35 settlements to more than one in 20 . |
| 8 | Its turnover has tripled in the past decade ; analysts reckon it now sells some £450-worth ( $880 ) of goods per square foot each year , against an average of £216 for all department stores . |
| 9 | The number of latinos has tripled in the past year . |
| 10 | In addition to the 20 per cent out of work , contract and part-time employment has tripled in the past five years . |
| 11 | The independent body set up to hear appeals against exam results said last night the number of complaints has tripled in the past year . |
| 12 | Looking at the world , and in particular Europe , today it is hard to see how anything the CIA has done in the past 40 years has significantly affected the map of freedom . |
| 13 | Will the Minister commend Lagan college in my constituency for the progress that it has made in the past 10 years ? |
| 14 | ‘ All the money that Sheikh Osman has used in the past few weeks in his war against the Copts is money that you have given him . ’ |
| 15 | Rural depopulation has occurred in the past century and a half , and will continue in the future , because of declining employment opportunities in the countryside . |
| 16 | Interest has intensified in the past few years , encouraged by the scarcity of draughting skills , tough markets and the tumbling costs of CAD . |
| 17 | The rate of ozone depletion in the Antarctic has slowed in the past few years , but the researchers say that their model predicts " a return to more rapid depletion during the next four years as the solar minimum is approached . " |
| 18 | It was only recently a town that offered waged work for women , though much of that has disappeared in the past few years , and it was never a town that invited black workers . |
| 19 | A survey has shown that pocket money has increased in the past year by almost double the rate of inflation . |
| 20 | In my local hospital in Withington , the number of beds for the elderly has decreased in the past few years from 140 beds to barely 20 . |
| 21 | Seventh , but one of the most important , Gerstner must get a handle on IBM 's debt — ‘ Make sure you really understand why IBM 's debt has ballooned in the past five years , ’ advises Smith . |
| 22 | Members of the public reading his speech will claw through its 47 minutes looking for anything that has happened in the past year for which the Government can claim credit . |
| 23 | At the moment we can not make precise predictions about the level and type of demand , but we do know that the number of places in residential and nursing home care has declined in the past year . |
| 24 | Top choice was still MS-DOS with Windows , with 44% ; the 18 percentage points it has lost in the past six months have all gone to Windows NT and OS/2 . |
| 25 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that this is not something that has arisen in the past few days , but has been carefully negotiated by the Government over many weeks ? |
| 26 | The evidence that such a reaction does actually occur in humans , most markedly in individuals with low stomach acidity , has strengthened in the past few years . |
| 27 | All that has changed in the past year . |
| 28 | That said , it is not immediately apparent what , apart from the regular presence of Paul Taylor and the return of Ambrose , has changed in the past 12 months . |
| 29 | But something has changed in the past months , something remarkable . |
| 30 | Will he give an assurance that he will sustain the generous funding of Northern Arts that he has managed in the past few years ? |