Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] past few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had become used to much worse than that during the past few weeks . |
| 2 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 3 | While this growth is less spectacular than that of the past few years , the cumulative impact is significant . |
| 4 | Advances in , for instance , the production of 64K RAMs ( memory chips that can hold around 64000 bits of information ) give Japanese manufacturers a versatility and efficiency which has made it possible for them to achieve so much in the past few years . |
| 5 | I have been indecently assaulted by many a wise old family physician in my time : the passion for mammary examination — which has saved almost no lives at all over the past few years , it now appears-has been fomented and encouraged by male doctors . |
| 6 | I could say all the right words about Hilda , I 'd learned to do that in the past few days , talking to people on the phone , but I could n't believe in the phrases the way Susan seemed to . |
| 7 | She had done enough of that over the past few weeks , and had found that it led nowhere . |
| 8 | The music has n't changed ; it 's been the same for the past few millennia . |
| 9 | Rigney has been training quietly on his own over the past few weeks and believes that he will be back in action in the New Year for Greystones . |
| 10 | For most of the past few months , few would hesitate to answer , the Serbs . |
| 11 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |