Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 2 | ‘ We have been threatened for the past three or four years . |
| 3 | This site has been used for the past couple of years without any problems . |
| 4 | NORPLANT gives cover against getting pregnant for up to five years and has been used for the past decade abroad . |
| 5 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |
| 6 | In France , fetal liver transplantation has been performed for the past 16 years , with encouraging , if preliminary , results . |
| 7 | Your flat 's been bugged for the past two months . ’ |
| 8 | It has been rumoured for the past year that there are moves afoot to remove Cork from the list of Tarmac championship rounds . |
| 9 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 10 | The refuge has been supported for the past 18 years by the Swindon-based financial services group Allied Dunbar . |
| 11 | Teacher assumptions concerning the classroom problems exhibited by ‘ West Indian ’ students have been documented for the past 20 years ( Brittain , 1976 ; Rampton , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | The views of people with learning difficulties have been documented for the past 15 years , so this is not new territory — though sections on the attitudes of parents and staff throw light on neglected issues . |
| 13 | The centre has been run for the past ten years by Richard Gill and his brother Jeff — they say that three quarters of their guests come as individuals though they are happy to take groups . |
| 14 | The Adult Basic Education Unit at Darlington College of Technology has been funded for the past two years by a grant from the Department of Education and Science . |
| 15 | Among the bidders was a landlady fighting to hold on to the country inn she 's run for the past eight years.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 16 | But behind the make-up there still lies a razor sharp intellectual who has been quoted for the past several years as one of the top 100 lawyers in the US . |
| 17 | They will be competing at the Haribo meet in Bonn , where the German World Cup fixture has been held for the past four years and where many world and European records have been broken . |