Example sentences of "[pron] for the past [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And we have n't had a penny from them for the past two years or more . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 3 | My thoughts this evening are much centred on Bishop Harris as he prepares to lay down the ministry which has been his for the past 14 years . |
| 4 | Much of the blame must be laid at the door of the disorganised America 's Cup Organising Committee , who for the past 10 months have been on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 5 | But that 's cold comfort to the players who for the past two months or so have been attempting to qualify for the PGA European Tour . |
| 6 | By allowing the Bill to pass through the House unamended in respect of premium rate services , they are condoning everything that is being done by those who for the past six years have been offering pornographic ’ services ’ . |
| 7 | Roger Boyes , who for the past three years has been the Leeds finance director , will become acting chief executive from next Monday . |
| 8 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
| 9 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 11 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 12 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 13 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 14 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 15 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 16 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 17 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 18 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 19 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 20 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 21 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 22 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 23 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 24 | It has been with us for the past 10 years . |
| 25 | Les left the party for what he calls ‘ the superior ideology of Moral Re-Armament , ’ and has worked with us for the past sixteen years . |