Example sentences of "[prep] the past few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , it 's served you well for the past few hours and may now be looking forward to you treating it . |
| 2 | He could not explain it , but his putting had gone to pieces for the past few months and he was missing shots which formerly he would have holed with ease . |
| 3 | Luck had been on Cassie 's side up until now , for Stephanie had been working in Germany for the past few weeks and this circumstance had removed the necessity of proffering an invitation ; with , of course , the desirable Martin in attendance . |
| 4 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
| 5 | He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract . |
| 6 | She was worried about her husband ; it had been obvious for the past few days that something was preying on his mind . |
| 7 | Considerable progress has been made in improving air quality in the United States during the past few decades but greater improvement is still needed ( figure 8.13 ) . |
| 8 | Many manufacturing industries have been destocking during the past few years but now that is slowing down . |
| 9 | Tory group leader Tony Richmond refuted the figures , saying : ‘ There have been more new houses built in Darlington during the past few years than at any other time in the past . |
| 10 | Tory group leader Tony Richmond refuted the figures , saying : ‘ There have been more new houses built in Darlington during the past few years than at any other time in the past . |
| 11 | Having liquidated one in four employees during the past few years and having promised to treat its workforce to more of the same during 1993 , IBM should have surprised no one by investing some of the money it has presumably saved in an organisation formed by the people who produced the most recent Terminator film . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Oh , no , not that , she would n't be able to suffer that , not after the past few days that had been so ecstatic . |
| 14 | If they can , they are much more cautious as a result of the experience of the past few years than they have ever been . |
| 15 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 16 | A VARIED selection of veteran and vintage aircraft have appeared on the register within the past few months and include the former Warbirds of Great Britain P–63A Kingcobra which has been on rebuild to flying condition at Duxford for some time for The Fighter Collection . |
| 17 | This group has been set up within the past few months and had the task of re-organising the Covenant . |
| 18 | But can you think of anybody for yourself who you could think of who over the recently or over the in the past few centuries or closer to home have shown the gifts of the Holy Spirit in their lives ? |
| 19 | The constant repetition by European politicians in the past few months that Maastricht will not necessarily mean change may have been tactically expedient , but squaring the circle in which the EC has snared itself requires , on the contrary , upheaval , not just in research policy . |
| 20 | Leeds have bought so many players in the past few months that it is tempting to call the club New Leeds — although the fans are calling them Dad 's Army because they have bought so many stars over 30 . |
| 21 | Some of the more broadly-based share indices have suffered sharper losses in the past few weeks and analysts believe the Dow could soon match these declines . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary have talked with housing authorities throughout the country in the past few weeks and we have been interested to find out that many local authorities have land banks which they are not prepared to make available to housing associations . |
| 23 | I dread to think where the pound would have been in the past few days if I had followed the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 24 | The impression has been strengthened in the past few years that macro-economic developments and policies are now essentially international in character . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Glasgow 's had a facelift in the past few years but it 's no more than that . |
| 27 | Action has been taken , not just in the past few years but consistently by successive Governments since 1904 , to inhibit tobacco consumption by children . |
| 28 | Certain areas , notably Oxford and Cambridge and the so-called Golden Triangle , have experienced major high-tech-based growth in the past few years and the government is keen to encourage this type of development as reflected in Department of the Environment Circular 16/84 , changes to the Use Classes Order and measures to liberalise planning controls over business in general . |
| 29 | We are looking forward to ever-increasing production from our huge investments in the past few years and therefore , even if the oil price remains flat , to ever-increasing cash flow . |
| 30 | The main reason for many Opposition Members feeling more warmly towards the European Community now than they did in the past is the record of the Community in the past few years and the contrast between what has happened elsewhere in the Community and what we have seen take place in Britain . |