Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] past few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Anglesey scheme operated for over 30 years , albeit rather intermittently for the past few years . |
| 32 | ‘ The truth , about which we spoke so often in the past few years , has been reaffirmed once again — where there is a delay in dealing with overripe problems , excesses are inevitable , ’ Gorbachev said in the Tass transcript of his speech . |
| 33 | Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ? |
| 34 | This is a formidable task even for a human navigator , but as we have found out in the past few years , the bees ' trigonometric adjustments are perfectly mindless , depending only on a memory of the Sun 's azimuth relative to the bee 's goal on the previous trip ( or day ) and an extrapolation of the Sun 's current rate of azimuth movement . |
| 35 | However , the world had " changed radically in the past few years " and there was an increased demand , felt throughout the UN system , for " intervention in response to local crisis , often at the expense of long-term development " . |
| 36 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 37 | This illness , a recurrence of the same symptoms ( violent colic , with spells of vomiting and attacks of fever ) that he had suffered intermittently over the past few years , was a sombre presage of his final illness , now only two years away . |
| 38 | Many of these grew wildly over the past few years , and have now seen business vanish . |
| 39 | Thus , research carried out over the past few years indicates that the traits described above actually overlap considerably with those found in so-called ‘ schizotypal ’ individuals , i.e. People whose temperamental make-up seems similar to that underlying schizophrenia , continuous with it in the personality domain but without any obvious signs of psychotic illness . |
| 40 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 41 | In fact the numbers of female motorists has risen sharply over the past few years and since 1987 the number has almost doubled . |
| 42 | The moment for bargain hunters to enter the market was ideal as the FTSE had slipped sharply over the past few days . |
| 43 | This area of planning has grown tremendously over the past few years , fuelled by the accounting discussion over brand valuation . |
| 44 | For this month 's design , as with all projects where the solution has n't come as quick as a flash of inspiration , I assembled in front of me everything that I had found interesting or been working on over the past few months . |
| 45 | A great deal of work has gone on over the past few months . |
| 46 | However , the claims of the majority of those seeking asylum here during the past few years — and of the cases that we have determined — were unfounded in United Nations convention terms . |
| 47 | After all , it 's served you well for the past few hours and may now be looking forward to you treating it . |
| 48 | But the preponderance of evidence about the computer business shows that the IBM name no longer has its old magic … and it has n't for the past few years . |
| 49 | Our understanding of the natural occurrence of Bt has been revised dramatically in the past few years . |
| 50 | The circumstances in which young people grow up have altered drastically in the past few decades . |
| 51 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 52 | This point has now been made frequently over the past few years , as for instance in this passage from the Gulbenkian Report , The Arts in Schools ( 1982 ) : |
| 53 | The western diet has changed dramatically over the past few decades . |
| 54 | The fact is , beneath all the nonsense about the so-called ‘ new man ’ , men and the male culture have changed dramatically over the past few decades . |
| 55 | Now , our understanding of this relationship has increased dramatically over the past few years and our knowledge of new vessel formation or angiogenesis has also increased . |
| 56 | The pattern of wine drinking in Northern Ireland has changed dramatically over the past few years , said Mr Jamet . |
| 57 | by John Bailey Bream , once referred to as the matchman 's favourite fish , have seen their popularity amongst specialist anglers rise dramatically over the past few years . |
| 58 | Labour leaders had done well over the past few years to present themselves in Washington as solid members of the alliance and as social democrats more than socialists . |
| 59 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |
| 60 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |