Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Women and Film ’ , to quote the title of E. Ann Kaplan 's ( 1983 ) important book on feminist film theory and criticism , defines a field of study which in the past fifteen to twenty years has been expanding rapidly . |
| 2 | By the mid-nineteen fifties many Orcadians had begun the task of modernizing their homes by building new ones a process which over the past three decades seems to have gone on with ever increasing frenzy . |
| 3 | Yet the young are living in an age which over the past year has become dramatically uncertain . |
| 4 | In 1985 he had set up a consultancy firm which in the past year had advised the government on privatization . |
| 5 | However , the Treasury which in the past several weeks has been preparing economic forecasts for inclusion in the November autumn statement seems almost certain to revise down its estimates for economic growth next year . |