Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] past few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it 's all hands to the deck for the close friends as they knuckle down to bring back the sparkle that has been missing down at Hamilton Park for the past few seasons . |
| 2 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 3 | There is now a firm grip on the conditions affecting the health of the populace of the borough and it is certain , given time , the innovations put into practice during the past few years will prove to be of enormous benefit , particularly to the health of infants and mothers of West Ham . |
| 4 | I 've never met you but I 've had to think about you a good deal during the past few weeks , mainly because my young daughter Jean has been unable to think of anything or anyone else ! |
| 5 | The laser has been developed and built in Banbury … its been undergoing sea tests on the south coast for the past few months … |
| 6 | The definite article is important , for what it suggests is that the modern notion of sexuality — both the importance we assign to it , and the theoretical unification it implies — is an historical construct of the past few hundred years . |
| 7 | Minutes later , feeling suddenly totally exhausted by all the nervous tension of the past few hours , Shiona kissed the already sleeping Kirsty goodnight , then climbed into her own bunk and closed her eyes . |
| 8 | Besides , Sharpe 's caution is justified since Graham Taylor has picked a team full of players itching to be the one whose finger pulls the trigger that will release the World Cup tension of the past few months — and in the process bring much-needed relief to manager Graham Taylor and his backroom team . |
| 9 | If he does not , the uncertainty of the past few months — which has become worse in the past three weeks — will continue to hang over the coal industry . |
| 10 | perpetuation of the pantomime of the past few months will serve nobody 's purpose . |
| 11 | After the disruption of the past few days , all now seems quiet . |
| 12 | She threaded her hands through his hair and kissed him back , and suddenly all the pent-up emotion of the past few weeks rushed up to engulf her . |
| 13 | The sale , to be announced within days , will be the Scottish group 's second deal in the past few weeks . |
| 14 | Thanks largely to our supporters around the world , we in UNICEF have put everything we can into our worldwide immunisation programme over the past few years . |
| 15 | I wish he would keep his eyes off me , Laura thought grimly , feeling certain that she must have experienced almost a lifetime 's amount of tension over the past few days . |
| 16 | Of course , it is feasible that the Greeks were more sharp-sighted than we are , and certainly their skies were clearer ; but it is equally likely that Merope has dimmed a fair deal over the past few thousand years — in other words , that it is a variable star with a period of at least several thousand years . |
| 17 | I believe that our pensioners have had a very poor deal over the past few years — |
| 18 | Some 75 per cent of Perkins ' UK production is shipped overseas , and the company has picked up four Queen 's Awards for export over the past few years . |
| 19 | You did n't have to be an angry young man to look around the car industry over the past few weeks and despair of ever hearing any good news . |
| 20 | William Waldegrave , Secretary of State for Health , has shown himself to be no friend of the tobacco industry over the past few weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been deluged with stories about the American nuclear industry over the past few years . |
| 22 | Could you just give me an impression of what 's happened in the aviation industry over the past few weeks , because I think I am right in saying that the number of people flying actually has been drastically reduced . |
| 23 | Shipwreck treasure ( in particular porcelain ) has proved a strong seller at auction over the past few years , witness the Nanking cargo of 150,000 pieces sold in 1986 for £10.1 million . |
| 24 | Research over the past few years has led me to observe elsewhere ( Cartwright , 1984 ) that in education in general — and arts education is no different in this respect — assessment comes in all forms and guises , and that the type of assessment practised is dependent upon the reasons for its use . |
| 25 | This area has seen much urban renewal over the past few years , with £6 million spent on rebuilding and refurbishment programmes . |
| 26 | Could at least think about it , visualize it again , if not with pleasure , at least not with that sick-making horror of the past few weeks . |
| 27 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 28 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 29 | If they can , they are much more cautious as a result of the experience of the past few years than they have ever been . |
| 30 | I advise him and others to be extremely reticent in proceeding to the supposedly automatic system of introducing guillotine motions , especially after our experience of the past few years under the Government . |