Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] past few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
| 2 | I have n't noticed Reg writing much for the past few minutes , though . |
| 3 | Because something has come to my mind only during the past few days , when I learnt that the Gipsy Working Party by five votes to four had recommended that the Rockhill site go forward for consultation . |
| 4 | On behalf of the 400 men from Sherwood who work at Gedling , I thank my hon. Friend for his endless time and effort , not only during the past few weeks but over years , to keep that colliery open . |
| 5 | The vendor 's company may be able to carry earlier losses forward to set off against the gain or if the capital assets were bought by the company only within the past few years , it is possible that there may be a loss rather than a gain . |
| 6 | So in the past few years since Big Bang we have seen dealers chasing every hare , especially since dealing volumes declined and firms have been more desperate to do business . |
| 7 | So in the past few years , I have given a speech which has has drawn attention to the the deficit on our General Fund and our need for continued care , to reduce the deficit . |
| 8 | So in the past few weeks Mr Yavlinsky , Vladimir Shcherbakov , the Soviet minister in charge of economics , and Yevgeny Primakov , an aide to Mr Gorbachev , have all visited America trying to work out the terms of an aid-for-economic-reform package . |
| 9 | About a mile away , at Sheridan Circle , our director , the former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Leteleir and Ronni Moffitt , an institute worker , were killed in October 1976 by a car bomb planted by right-wing Cubans in the pay of the Pinochet secret police : only in the past few months has the Chilean government paid compensation to their families . |
| 10 | Rio Tinto has bought into all the mines only in the past few years ; and it has its sights set on expansion . |
| 11 | It is only in the past few years that a good understanding of these types of collision has emerged , and it is only a year since Tiesinga et al . |
| 12 | ‘ She has worked harder than all the others put together in the past few years . |
| 13 | The number of applications based on this ground has increased alarmingly over the past few years . |
| 14 | The number of applications based on this ground has increased alarmingly over the past few years . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've spent over £400 in petrol alone over the past few months , taking him to meetings and training ’ , Mr Brice confirmed . |
| 16 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 17 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
| 18 | He took out the slim dossier on Mikhail Vologsky which he had been able to put together over the past few weeks . |
| 19 | Oh , no , not that , she would n't be able to suffer that , not after the past few days that had been so ecstatic . |
| 20 | She knew that her presence and unwavering support was as important to the outcome as all the physical and psychological preparation that Lennox had been through in the past few months . |
| 21 | The political reporters on all stations have paid tribute to the outstanding contribution made by my right hon. Friend , and the way in which he trumped the sporting aphorisms of the Prime Minister , used in the orchestrated triumph that we have had to live through in the past few weeks from a Government rocked on their heels by the assault from the Opposition today . |
| 22 | Action has been taken , not just in the past few years but consistently by successive Governments since 1904 , to inhibit tobacco consumption by children . |
| 23 | On the last count alone , Jerry Lee Lewis has justified his status a hundred times over in the past few days . |
| 24 | ‘ We have expanded rapidly over the past few years and have now outgrown our existing factory , ’ said David Gray , chairman and managing director of the Saltofix Group . |
| 25 | Many beekeepers have been examining their bees carefully for the past few years in efforts to find the mite . |
| 26 | ‘ The whole system of national training has improved enormously in the past few years , ’ Marshall said . |
| 27 | This group has been set up within the past few months and had the task of re-organising the Covenant . |
| 28 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 29 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that it is often precisely those authorities that complain most about not being able to use capital receipts which have used the most in the past few years ? |
| 30 | Most of them had visited the invalid often during the past few months , marvelling at his gallant spirit and his unfailing good temper . |