Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [vb pp] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next up the quality ladder is desktop publishing of which much has been written over the past two years . |
| 2 | At St Paul 's Cathedral , London , an average of 30 mm of Portland stone has been lost in the past 250 years , with , in one particularly exposed position , 22 mm being lost in just 45 years ( figure 4.20 ; Dudley et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 4 | The engine has been developed over the past four years by engineers and designers at Vauxhall 's parent plant , General Motors . |
| 5 | The impression has been strengthened in the past few years that macro-economic developments and policies are now essentially international in character . |
| 6 | Much has been done in the past few months , but more needs to be done . |
| 7 | The change in the orbit of the earth is too slow to be observed , but this same effect has been observed over the past few years occurring in the system called PSR 1913+16 ( PSR stands for " pulsar , " a special type of neutron star that emits regular pulses of radio waves ) . |
| 8 | In view of the congestion on motorways and major trunk roads , do not those figures still fall short of what is necessary and desirable , despite the improvement that has been made in the past three years ? |
| 9 | The team has been restructured over the past few months . |
| 10 | The refuge has been supported for the past 18 years by the Swindon-based financial services group Allied Dunbar . |
| 11 | The constitution of the Federation , which has been formulated over the past two years , was agreed with twelve countries accepted into membership . |
| 12 | As we come to the end of this Parliament , will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to give us some insight into the Government 's long-term policy which has been formulated during the past 13 years ? |
| 13 | ‘ The separation has been achieved over the past year , but any contracting out of the providing side will be done slowly to retain stability . |
| 14 | In the first place it must be asked why , if this growing equality between spouses has been achieved over the past hundred or so years , has the militant feminist movement grown throughout the world during the 1960s and 1970s ? |
| 15 | This Government are committed to an effective policy of regional development , and I remind the hon. Member for Gateshead , East that much has been achieved over the past 10 years . |
| 16 | In these countries , a certain income equality has been achieved in the past 40 years , if one leaves aside the party privilegentsia , black-marketeers and writers or performers with access to foreign earnings . |
| 17 | All he can commit himself to is undoing everything that has been achieved in the past three years . |
| 18 | We must pay tribute also to the United Nations , which has been revitalised over the past 12 months and has started to play its part in trying to unravel and resolve the problems in Yugoslavia . |
| 19 | Now operated within Effect Products , this business is still considerable , with new opportunities arising in markets in the developing world , but the product range for sales in Western Europe has been broadened over the past 10 years or so with the development of more specialized products for use , for example , in carbonless copying paper . |
| 20 | The Lotus 1-2-3 range has been expanded in the past 12 months to include Windows , the Apple Mac , and a variety of Unix implementations . |
| 21 | The Adult Basic Education Unit at Darlington College of Technology has been funded for the past two years by a grant from the Department of Education and Science . |
| 22 | As the effects of calcium chloride continue to unravel , a new concrete ‘ disease ’ has been uncovered in the past year . |
| 23 | This results in the Collectair library gaining valuable notes , all of which is carefully filed away for use as and when the archive that has been created over the past few years becomes available to students of aviation history . |
| 24 | The crisis has been created over the past 10 years , and this is the second recession in which the building industry has been hit hard . |
| 25 | But though an enormous amount of material about such families has been accumulated over the past century , neither the social anthropologists nor the compilers of genealogical handbooks ( an aristocratic occupation ) have taken sufficient interest in them to make it easy to generalise with any confidence about such family groups . |
| 26 | Information on the effects of social work is frequently not systematically collected ; where a programme of research studies has been conducted over the past decade , it has often proved difficult to develop a co-ordinated body of knowledge which can be applied to future work . |
| 27 | The centre has been run for the past ten years by Richard Gill and his brother Jeff — they say that three quarters of their guests come as individuals though they are happy to take groups . |
| 28 | In France , fetal liver transplantation has been performed for the past 16 years , with encouraging , if preliminary , results . |
| 29 | But behind the make-up there still lies a razor sharp intellectual who has been quoted for the past several years as one of the top 100 lawyers in the US . |
| 30 | The firm 's market share in Italy 's public sector has been eroded over the past three years and he says Olivetti , unlike its principal European competitors ( Siemens-Nixdorf of Germany and Bull of France ) , has enjoyed no particular privileges in its home market . |