Example sentences of "[prep] the past [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year for the past five years the South Cambridge Forum for Industry Education Liaison has organised a ‘ Chemistry at Work ’ exhibition for fifth and sixth formers from schools in its area . |
| 2 | For the past five years the scheme 's costs have been met on a limited term basis through special funding by the Government and then by joint agency funding . |
| 3 | The area of Washington I know best lies around Dupont Circle , its streets now ablaze with pink , purple and white azaleas , the pavement cafes now opening up , and where for the past two decades the left think tank , the Institute for Policy Studies , has been loc-ated . |
| 4 | For the past two years the trustees of the Marriott Bequest have funded a scheme aimed at giving young members of the RSC a taste of scientific publishing . |
| 5 | For the past two years the BVDG has used the Cologne Art Fair as a platform to promote support for particular museums . |
| 6 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
| 7 | For the past six hours the downpour had been continuous and torrential . |
| 8 | However some employers must have moved more quickly , since the Scotsman for the same day carried the following report : The masters say they have engaged workmen from England who have proved equal to the occasion , while for the past few weeks an experiment was made with educated females at the case . |
| 9 | Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior . |
| 10 | For the past few years the incoming information has been startlingly similar from one season to the next . |
| 11 | For the past three years every general practitioner in Britain has been forced to waste professional time and scarce resources on unproved and possibly harmful procedures . |
| 12 | This brief has been fulfilled with distinction , and every three or four months for the past 20 years the office has produced an objective , well-documented , literate , and attractively presented booklet encapsulating the known facts about subjects ranging from suicide , rabies and heart disease , to the cost of running hospitals and what the public expects from the NHS , always adding a few percipient comments and conclusions of its own for good measure . |
| 13 | For the past 300 years the substantial remains of one of medieval England 's most important fortresses have lain hidden beneath part of the city centre . |
| 14 | ‘ For the past several decades the majority of modern federations have shown a trend towards centralisation in connection with economic development and social problems ’ . |
| 15 | For the past 12 years the Government have behaved like latter day Don Quixotes tilting at windmills and all the other renewables . |
| 16 | During the past eight years the use of natural gas has been rising , but wind and solar power have also been increasing dramatically . |
| 17 | However , during the past twelve years the balance between full-time and part-time students has shifted markedly in favour of the former . |
| 18 | During the past 12 years the Government have shown a lack of interest in regional economic policies . |
| 19 | During the past twenty years the role of export education has been fulfilled by the Institute of Export without any assistance or recognition whatsoever . |
| 20 | During the past 40 years the two Germanys have gradually come closer together economically while bolstering each other 's separateness at the same time . |
| 21 | During the past 25 years the global market value of crop protection and enhancement agents has increased from ca $2 000m to ca $19 000m . |
| 22 | During the past few months the change to End Product Duty has made Stretton a Customs & Excise Bond , and Albany 's extensive experience in bonded warehouse operations came in useful . |
| 23 | During the past few years a number of different models for hospital services for attempted suicide patients have been developed . |
| 24 | Basically , every compliment that has been chucked in Suede 's direction during the past ten minutes the band wholeheartedly , erm , agree with . |
| 25 | It opened with his favourite theme : ‘ During the past ten years the system of standing Cabinet Committees has proved its value as a means of relieving the Cabinet of a great weight of less important business . ’ |
| 26 | As has been seen , the progress of Thatcherism had been erratic , even hesitant , since 1979 , though the Falklands victory had given the record of the past four years a spurious consistency . |
| 27 | As Diane Bailey 's Curtis Cup team were chosen in 1986 that means that in four of the past five years a team have come top of the poll . |
| 28 | Inevitably with the rapid expansion of the past few years the University is experiencing difficulties in providing sufficient academic as well as residential accommodation . |
| 29 | Throughout the past 12 years the regional gap has widened . |
| 30 | IN the past two years the UDA has matched the IRA death-for-death and carried out some of Ulster 's most barbaric murders . |