Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] in [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Secretary of State recall that in answer to an earlier question of mine to his colleague at the Department of Employment , I was told that 25,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost in the past 12 months in Yorkshire and Humberside ? |
| 2 | First , we had the idea one autumn of writing to all those who had been bereaved in the past three years and had had contact with the church . |
| 3 | A Faroese government spokesman said that only 1,550 whales had been killed in the past ten years in a non-commercial hunt which gave islanders an important local source of nutrition . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the government 's majority had been reduced in the past year from over 40 to five following defections from various coalition parties . |
| 5 | Some 750 Brazilian street children ( believed to number up to 12,000,000 throughout the country ) went to Brasília in late September for a conference , at which they said 624 of their number had been murdered in the past 19 months , many of them by death squads . |
| 6 | And Dr Poyntz also paid tribute to the 3,000 members of the Prison Service , 29 of whom had been murdered in the past 24 years . |
| 7 | The Social Secretary outlined the events which had been held in the past year , all of them well attended . |
| 8 | A survey last August by the Consumers Association suggested that one garden in 20 had been burgled in the past two years , and that the average value of each theft was £130 . |
| 9 | In October the Russian Orthodox Bishops ' Council said that nearly 3,000 church buildings had been reopened in the past 18 months , bringing the number of working parishes to 9,734 ; the number of theological students had doubled to 3,948 . |