Example sentences of "for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 2 | Then Sven Hjerson took his revenge for the past tiresome two hours . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 5 | He has sold organic wines for the past five years , ever since he got a licence . |
| 6 | I am 30 and have owned Bull Terriers for the past five years . |
| 7 | A Soviet Deputy Defence Minister , General Varrenikov , has been in Addis Ababa for the past week . |
| 8 | For the past few weeks President Najibullah has been meeting militia commanders from around the country offering them more weapons and money to maintain their loyalty and keep the roads open . |
| 9 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 10 | The JVP , fighting to overthrow the government for the past two-and-a-half years , did not respect the ceasefire , first imposed by the government for 72 hours on 27 September . |
| 11 | For the past 300 years the substantial remains of one of medieval England 's most important fortresses have lain hidden beneath part of the city centre . |
| 12 | For the past two years , Washington has been desperate to unseat a ruler who , across the world , had come to symbolise the crass stupidity and shortsightedness of American policy in Latin America . |
| 13 | For the past decade , the teachers at Gillingham have been working towards something which looks very much like the national curriculum , to ensure a smooth transfer to the new system . |
| 14 | Sheffield Wednesday , curiously , were the most prolific scorers , but only one goal ahead of Luton , finalists for the past two seasons , who defeated Third Division Mansfield 7-2 ( 11-5 on aggregate ) . |
| 15 | He said last night : ‘ I 've had a spot of bother for the past four or five years with my knee so I had these X-rays done and they found a bone growth about the size of a pea . |
| 16 | Nor do I recognise the judges who can discriminate between frivolous and genuine employers in the Appeal Court ruling that dock strikes might have been illegal for the past 40 years . |
| 17 | We know who 's been organising acid house parties for the past year . |
| 18 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 19 | This is the church which has been the centre of opposition in East Berlin for the past few weeks . |
| 20 | He then rose rapidly to become chief conductor at La Scala , Milan , and later became musical director of the London Symphony Orchestra and , for the past three years , of the Vienna State Opera . |
| 21 | George McCartney , a butcher from Northern Ireland , has won the Meat Trades Journal Champion of Champions competition for the past two years . |
| 22 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 23 | Strong political statements commenting on Ireland where she has lived for the past two years . |
| 24 | Lancia still ended the first day in the lead , but Alessandro Fiorio 's Integrale was one of the old-style standard versions that have dominated the world championship for the past two years . |
| 25 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 26 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 27 | For the past 13 years Polisario , operating in jeeps across the semi-desert , has mounted surprise attacks on the huge sand wall which runs across the country . |
| 28 | The general 's effective rejection of the peace charter , which has yet to be formally presented by the 31 Christian and 31 Muslim deputies gathered in Taif for the past two weeks , risks plunging Lebanon into a new cycle of the violence from which it temporarily escaped when the Arab League brokered a ceasefire on 23 September . |
| 29 | A federation of recreation industry unions compiled a list of more than 100 MPs from ruling and opposition parties who allegedly received huge sums of money from pachinko barons for the past five years . |
| 30 | 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 . |