Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spoiled and wilful she might be at times , but the emotional distance between them caused by the difference in their ages and their forced separation in childhood had slowly been closing over the past two years . |
| 2 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |
| 3 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 4 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |
| 5 | The Lodge , as Manningham 's new home was called , was a large bungalow which had obviously been built within the past couple of years . |
| 6 | His services have not been required by the past three editors of NSS . |
| 7 | Nearly 100,000 jobs have already been lost during the past two years and 123,000 more are in danger . |
| 8 | Changes in LSW and other water masses of the subpolar North Atlantic have already been observed over the past few years . |
| 9 | And , of course , nine French policemen have already been killed during the past month . |
| 10 | Its figure is higher than the CBO 's largely because it does not take into account the fact that the quarterly long-bond auctions had already been pruned over the past year , from around $12 billion to $1.25 billion . |
| 11 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |