Example sentences of "[noun] in [art] past few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sale , to be announced within days , will be the Scottish group 's second deal in the past few weeks . |
| 2 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 3 | However , because of the increased numbers of applicants applying to polytechnics in the past few years , it will most probably decide to implement such a scheme . |
| 4 | Some of the more broadly-based share indices have suffered sharper losses in the past few weeks and analysts believe the Dow could soon match these declines . |
| 5 | A spokesman said there had been several raids on homes in the past few days by sneak thieves . |
| 6 | We have been one of the foremost supporters of the United Nations , and the Government have played the prime role in enhancing the position of the United Nations in the past few years . |
| 7 | The suggestion is he has topped up his stake in the past few weeks when Grand Met 's shares have been weak , falling from 658p . |
| 8 | The Daughters of the American Revolution had been racking up a heavy rep in the past few months . |
| 9 | As I have said , we have seen enormous changes , but I advise my right hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench and all hon. Members who will continue to serve in Parliament in the coming years that the changes that have taken place in those countries in the past few years could well be repeated on an enormous scale in other countries . |
| 10 | It is to be hoped that her business is now sufficiently stable to realise the opportunity , for she has clocked up three managing directors in the past few years . |
| 11 | I guess that in referring to that issue in the past few weeks we have been guilty of understating the size of the problem . |
| 12 | There are two views of what has happened in Russia in the past few years . |
| 13 | But they are now undoubtedly the most endangered of the dolphin species , largely because their small and isolated populations are particularly vulnerable to the industrialisation which has occurred throughout much of their range in the past few decades . |
| 14 | Estimates of the Higgs 's mass can be made from the standard model , and the huge amount of data produced at LEP in the past few years has sharpened such estimates up . |
| 15 | Violence between Muslims and Hindus in India is reported to have claimed some 300 lives in the past few months . |
| 16 | Let's have a look more closely at some of the changes that have taken place in the past few decades . |
| 17 | This , however , could soon be put right as investors begin to focus on changes which have taken place in the past few years . |
| 18 | It concerns privatisations that have taken place in the past few years under processes and with measures of regulation which the Government said were more than adequate , dismissing all our criticisms . |
| 19 | That would make it extremely painful to have gone short of sterling in the past few days . |
| 20 | Many people have made substantial personal fortunes in the past few years , Mr Palumbo writes in the council 's annual report , and having inherited the mantle of the great patrons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , they should acknowledge their responsibilities by returning a portion of their good fortune to the community . |
| 21 | The Daily Mail , the Sun and many other such papers have contained a series of unpleasant , vituperative stories against individuals in the past few months . |
| 22 | The main reason for many Opposition Members feeling more warmly towards the European Community now than they did in the past is the record of the Community in the past few years and the contrast between what has happened elsewhere in the Community and what we have seen take place in Britain . |
| 23 | His whole life had become a series of unanswered questions in the past few days . |
| 24 | The oldest Classic has come in for its usual share of criticism in the past few weeks , largely due to the disappointing number of entries . |
| 25 | We have considerable success with all the teams in the past few years , and even when not winning , the boys enjoy their football . |
| 26 | ‘ Glasgow 's had a facelift in the past few years but it 's no more than that . |
| 27 | Recent ice core studies from Antarctica show temperature changes in the past few years far greater than any in the past 400 years . |
| 28 | About 1,500 East Germans who managed to reach Bonn 's embassy in Warsaw in the past few weeks have been sent to the West in two special trains . |
| 29 | One of its themes will have to be the confusion in our morality that the epidemic has exposed , and this has been much in evidence in the past few days in response to the ludicrous concert in commemoration of Freddie Mercury , and then the renewal of the controversial theory that Aids may not be linked to HIV at all , but instead , to cite one example , to promiscuous sexual activity that reputedly attacks the immune system . |
| 30 | ‘ Having been so close to winning the title in the past few years I thought this was going to be my chance but the draws have just dried up and I ca n't seem to get near fish , ’ said Dave from Hednesford , Staffordshire . |