Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty-two MPs , equally divided between Christians and Muslims , have been in this Saudi resort for the past two weeks examining a ‘ National Reconciliation Charter ’ drafted by Arab League mediators as the basis for a permanent peace . |
| 2 | In the wake of your SHOCK HEADED PETERS piece , I think you should know that Karl Blake has n't worked for British Rail for the past year and a half and is currently an art student in Sheffield . |
| 3 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 4 | But each time this has been tried , it comes up against the apparently irreconcilable rivalries of the three figures who have dominated the French right for the past 15 years — Jacques Chirac , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and ( to a lesser extent ) Raymond Barre . |
| 5 | Then followed a social evening for the past pupils and past members of staff — and nostalgia reigned ! |
| 6 | He 's been the British Champion for the past three years . |
| 7 | I assure the hon. Member for Normanton — with whom it is a pleasure to be debating again ; it has been our daily dose for the past three weeks , and he is a worthy opponent — that my party and I are not living in the past . |
| 8 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
| 9 | So we have established a measure which we call OTIF — on time , in full — and we 've been measuring our performance in this area for the past two years . |
| 10 | Scientific psychology has remained indifferent to this critique for the past 80 years . |
| 11 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 12 | It is pretty disgraceful if I can not put to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East the points which have been the centre of debate in this country for the past 10 days , but I shall do so . |
| 13 | In Scotland , Co-ordinated Land & estates ( CLE ) is usually associated with developments such as Clydebank Business Park but in fact property audits have been a metier of this company for the past decade . |
| 14 | Furthermore , competition has reduced somewhat because a number of the smaller software houses have disappeared due to the recession ; and the group is recruiting again , after having frozen this activity for the past couple of years . |
| 15 | Indeed , it is at exactly this stage of Picasso 's evolution that one senses behind his art the presence of this great ‘ primitive ’ who in his naiveté had unconsciously succeeded in ignoring the forces which had influenced French painting for the past fifty years , the forces against which Picasso and his friends were most immediately reacting . |
| 16 | Ironically , Mr Yeltsin 's studious absence from public view for the past few days forced the two parties to seek a solution and not wait for him to intervene . |
| 17 | Dr John Vickerman , who leads the atom bombardment team , has offered the technique on a part-time basis for the past two years . |
| 18 | He has held the position on a part-time basis for the past few months . |
| 19 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been under withering fire for the past year or so from companies seduced into trying to build machines compatible with Sun 's own — and then finding that the company artfully withholds all the best bits for itself . |
| 20 | ( 1981 ) concluded that radiative forcing by greenhouse gases together with volcanoes accounted for 75 per cent of the variance in the 5-year smoothed global temperature for the past century , while the addition of a hypothesized variation in solar luminosity increased the figure to 90 per cent . |
| 21 | He 's been living on his reserves of nervous energy for the past couple of weeks . |
| 22 | Each evening for the past couple of months Lurgan town centre — like many other towns — has been sealed by the RUC from early evening . |
| 23 | USL has been discreetly nurturing the unprecedented deal for the past two years , out-manoeuvering IBM 's attempt to get OS/2 adopted . |
| 24 | The 24-year-old , leading scorer for the past four seasons , was unsettled by a £3.5 million offer from Manchester United . |
| 25 | Despite being without the suspended Hirst , Wednesday 's leading scorer for the past four seasons , Francis fully expects to progress into the next round . |
| 26 | ‘ And in a perverse way this is something which may be helpful because they are now beginning to appreciate more clearly the fear that has existed within the Protestant community for the past 20 years as they have been killed at random by the IRA , ’ he added . |
| 27 | " We have had a lucky spell for the past few years , " explains Barbara . |
| 28 | Texas does not need the economic stimulus offered by Mr Clinton : the state has a muscular economy with an employment-growth rate that has exceeded the national average for the past three years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 29 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 30 | All the anger , frustration and hurt finally exploded into action in violent contrast to the lethargy that had been her constant companion for the past few months . |