Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [art] past [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 2 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 3 | Built up over the past 10 years , his aquilegia collection consists of about 130 species and hybrids , with the emphasis on species ‘ to save as many as possible from extinction and allow present and future generations to know and enjoy their great beauty ’ . |
| 4 | The results confirm the so-called Standard Model , the theory which physicists have built up over the past 15 years to explain both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it . |
| 5 | He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election . |
| 6 | However , there is still evidence of a lack of deals in Scotland as the standard deals of under £10 million — from family succession , rationalisation , privatisation or insolvency — have virtually dried up in the past two years . |