Example sentences of "[verb] that [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supplementary note disclosed that over the past six years £298m goodwill arising on acquisitions has been written off to reserve . |
| 2 | If the hon. Gentleman followed that matter with any care , he would know that over the past four or five years we have steadily improved and made more generous the cold weather payments . |
| 3 | The hon. Lady should know that in the past 10 years exports of British manufactured goods have grown faster than those of France , Germany , America and even Japan , because manufacturing is doing so much better and needs our policies . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman will want to know that during the past two years personal social services standard spending will have increased by nearly 33 per cent . |
| 5 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 6 | Miti also claimed that in the past five years Japan 's imports from its 10 largest trading partners had increased by 96 per cent , while exports had risen by only 45 per cent . |
| 7 | Lisa might have responded that over the past few years she 'd endured more than her share of character-building challenges . |
| 8 | And I 'm sure you need no reminding that during the past ten years , a new order has emerged and is emerging , which is changing the roles traditionally per performed by the three sectors . |
| 9 | I repeat that in the past 10 years there has been a devolution of power down into the regions right across Europe , not only inside the EC . |
| 10 | Yes , I welcome the substantial orders that have been received and I was pleased to see that in the past few days a number of them have come here . |
| 11 | I am glad to report that in the past few months we have made real progress with the car manufacturers . |
| 12 | Lord Lane paid tribute to his ‘ team ’ of judges and revealed that over the past four years he had reviewed almost 1,500 life sentences — a task he had been unable to delegate and which he willingly relinquished to his successor , Lord Justice Taylor . |
| 13 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 14 | Sunderland motor dealer Reg Vardy says that in the past month it has sold £1.1m worth of luxury cars to local businessmen . |
| 15 | Latest provisional figures for in-patients and day cases for September 1991 show that in the past six months the number of patients waiting over a year fell by 7 per cent . |
| 16 | It is generally felt that in the past local authorities have dragged their feet in taking on their responsibilities to care for mentally disordered people , and the Minister of Health , Roger Freeman , outlined further plans for this group to Parliament the day after Secretary of State Kenneth Clarke 's speech on community care ; these were , clearly , some last-minute additions to the government 's package of proposals . |
| 17 | In choosing the best moment to collect the berries it is worth remembering that in the past growers expected their fruit to fulfil more than one function . |
| 18 | These revealed that over the past three years , the £700m gap between the two had been reduced to £400m to £500m . |
| 19 | The report noted that over the past few years the government departments had introduced competitive fee bidding for the appointment of consulting engineers leading to lower fee rates . |
| 20 | Foreign press reports in March claimed that over the past year up to 400,000 people from shanty towns in the outskirts of Khartoum had been forcibly relocated to areas outside the city [ for December 1991 killings of shanty-town dwellers see p. 38666 ] . |
| 21 | In his 1979 budget Sir Geoffrey Howe claimed that in the past public spending had been based on falsely optimistic expectations about economic resources : ‘ It is this falsely reassuring belief that somehow the resources will be found to permit an uninterrupted expansion of public expenditure that this government challenges . |
| 22 | The resulting detailed palaeomagnetic record showed that during the past 4 Ma the average duration of ‘ normal ’ fields ( like the present one ) had been about 420 ka and that of ‘ reversed ’ fields a little longer ( about 480 ka ) . |
| 23 | I do want to record that during the past colleagues have , almost without exception , done their best to work the system and I have greatly appreciated that . |
| 24 | You will appreciate that over the past two years much has been studied and debated on the issue of windfarms inside CPRW and we have worked closely with others , including CPRE . |
| 25 | Conceding that over the past 15 years " the transition to the socialist system … has proved difficult and unobtainable " , he proposed instead the introduction of a mixed economy , with a requirement that state enterprises become profitable and with scope for private enterprise , alongside the state sector , in all areas of the economy . |
| 26 | The Kroll investigation also found that over the past ten years some $10 billion had either been salted away in banks or used to buy shares of western companies . |
| 27 | Health units have found that over the past two years nurses have taken more time off sick with qualified nurses taking an average of 14 days off each year . |
| 28 | I understand that during the past 12 months there have been three gas leaks , two in the southern sector and one in the northern sector . |
| 29 | Shetlanders would maintain that in the past individual incomers had to become part of the local community : now they no longer needed to . |
| 30 | The company notes that in the past six months , Pick Systems has also provided municipal services software for the city of St. Petersburg and has established Pick training centres in most of the major Russian scientific and technical institutes . |