Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] the past [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | over and above the cost of living in the past 12 years . |
| 2 | COUNTLESS hours of studying over the past six years have paid off for a Barlaston engineering technician — in the form of an Open University degree . |
| 3 | Is the Minister aware that it is not true that there have been no notifications of dumping in the past six months ? |
| 4 | Mother-of-four Theresa de Mogollon , Glen Road newsagent Michael Edwards and Falls Road hairdresser Sean Hughes have all fallen victim to UFF gunmen in an orgy of killing in the past two weeks . |
| 5 | Attempting to get to grips with all the developments in nursing over the past five years is meat enough for any expert , and you will not be regarded as letting the side down just because you are not familiar with all the latest terminology or research in your clinical specialty . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most important and far-reaching change in nursing in the past ten years has been the wholesale move away from the subservient , passive role of the nurse who was accountable to doctors for any treatments she undertook , and to nursing supervisors for standards of personal conduct and discipline . |
| 7 | Nearly a third have introduced restrictions , or further restrictions , on smoking in the past 12 months . |
| 8 | Much RE writing in the past 20 years or so has centred on the raising of ultimate questions , and there has also been an insistence on developing in pupils skills of understanding and of handling these questions . |