Example sentences of "the past [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent . |
| 2 | Through conquest and defeat its borders have changed more dramatically and more often than those of any country in the past 100 years . |
| 3 | The big industrial company , says Mr Chandler , has been the engine of economic growth for the past 100 years , and will continue to be so for the next 100 . |
| 4 | The exhibition includes some delicately-worked gold jewellery , most of it found in Celtic tombs in the past 100 years : typically gold or silver torques , or saddle and bridle decorations of gold , silver , coral and enamel . |
| 5 | The 1990 Act remains firmly within the philosophy and structure of welfare provision characteristic of Germany for the past 100 years . |
| 6 | Chemical companies have changed dramatically over the past 100 years as have public attitudes towards chemical issues . |
| 7 | US management guru Peter Drucker points out that while blue collar productivity has increased some forty-fold over the past 100 years , white collar productivity has remained static . |
| 8 | In the past 100 years , the only time it was defeated was in Mussolini 's reign , which accounts for the popularity among older Neapolitans , sick of living with Mafioso , for his granddaughter . |
| 9 | For most of the past 100 years our teacher education has been based in specialist colleges . |
| 10 | For the past 100 years , art historians , including Sir John Pope-Hennessy , have accepted the sculptured figure as being the work of Tullio Lombardo , dating it from about 1525 . |
| 11 | Emuruangogolak and the Barrier volcanoes have erupted within the past 100 years , suggesting that magmatic heat sources are still available to drive the geothermal systems . |
| 12 | Who have been the most accurate and consistent English fast bowlers of the past 100 years or so ? |
| 13 | Indeed , the northern hemisphere mean temperature decrease which began in the 1940s was arrested and reversed during the mid 1970s ( figure 6.15 ) and the seven warmest years in the past 100 years have occurred since 1980 ( 1980 , 1981 , 1983 , 1986 , 1987 , 1988 , 1990 ) . |
| 14 | The effect of applying these canons of construction has been , as Evershed M.R. pointed out , that over the past 100 years |
| 15 | It features elements of many of the trends in classification theory and practice over the past 100 years . |
| 16 | There have been a number of other general classification schemes devised over the past 100 years . |
| 17 | For the past 100 years it has ejected more than 1,000 tonnes of chlorine into the atmosphere every day . |
| 18 | We must judge the second world war differently , but let us make sure that we do not repeat the mistakes that so many politicians thoughout Europe made over the past 100 years . |
| 19 | of men working full-time has never been wider in the past 100 years than it is today . |
| 20 | They argue that isotopic variations in lavas produced over the past 100 million years by the Kerguelen mantle plume require a cycle time of much less than a thousand million years . |
| 21 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 22 | The report concludes that warming of between 0.3C and 0.6C has taken place over the past 100 years , a figure which correlates with data from a range of global warming models prepared recently by climate scientists . |
| 23 | At present , climate patterns — including the 0.3C to 0.6C increase in air temperature over the past 100 years — were on the same scale as natural variations . |
| 24 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 25 | Whereas in the past technological developments led to the emergence of new occupational groups , often with some measure of occupational control and , in the most recent past , usually making claims to some professional standing ( for example , the rise of the various branches of traditional engineering ) , we argue that in the future it is likely that employers will try to ensure that new jobs do not lead to the creation of new occupations as such , and especially not new occupations which will be allowed any measure of occupational control . |
| 26 | I was introduced to Punch at the age of 12 , grew up on Basil Boothroyd and have relied on my weekly ‘ fix ’ to get me through life 's crises over the past 47 years — including moving house six times , several bereavements , liquidation ( yes , me too ! ! ) , my daughter 's attempted suicide and my recent divorce . |
| 27 | As overlooker he has seen the changing face of technology affect looms over the past 47 years . |
| 28 | They 're also the sort of chaps who 've spent the past dickhead-infested decade defining their own crotch-sweating sTyLe and they ai n't about to give it up for any passing sausage-munching , garlic-gnashing , cake-shovelling Eurocats or Europrats — 1992 or no 1992 . |
| 29 | For the past 27 years , if they needed help or advice , they could go to the Racial Equality Council centre in Gloucester . |
| 30 | Wolves have completed the £150,000 signing of Aston Villa centre half Derek Mountfield , who has been on loan at Molineux for the past 27 months . |