Example sentences of "[art] past [adj] years but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International , released to coincide with the anniversary and cataloguing a history of discrimination , violence and injustice , stated that " the mass killings of indigenous peoples may have reduced over the past 500 years but they have never stopped " . |
| 2 | Not only will he be one of the few Democrats to win the presidency in the past 50 years but he will have humiliated an incumbent President in the process . |
| 3 | I have n't been too bad over the past few years but I 've certainly been left with the legacy of my habit . |
| 4 | ‘ Glasgow 's had a facelift in the past few years but it 's no more than that . |
| 5 | The population of Snaith has doubled in the past 25 years but it is still small enough to ‘ know everybody ’ ; ask for people by name , rather than by their address ! |