Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the past [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 2 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 3 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 4 | Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you . |
| 5 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 6 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 7 | Hong Kong has transformed the regions surrounding it in the past five or six years . |
| 8 | Now that the election has been announced , will the Minister take the opportunity to apologise to the industry 's workers and employers for failing to do anything to protect them in the past 13 years ? |
| 9 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 10 | I thank all the people who have supported us over the past eleven years and assure them that T.R. Shipping will be every bit as dedicated in the future . ’ |
| 11 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 12 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 13 | If he had n't managed to convince her during the past eighteen years , he was unlikely to succeed this morning . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 15 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 16 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 17 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 18 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |