Example sentences of "[noun] for the past [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been a member of the Finance Committee for the past two and a half years and has taken a great interest in the Society 's financial affairs . |
| 2 | However , it has surely been to the mutual advantage of the people of Scotland and England that we have had that union for the past two and a half centuries . |
| 3 | She is 24 and has been in prison or special hospital for the past five and a half years . |
| 4 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 5 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |