Example sentences of "[art] past [noun sg] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maps that use these peculiar motions to build up pictures of the amount of matter in space have been prepared by various researchers over the past year or so . |
| 2 | The main reason people have been wearing Adidas Shell-toes and Puma States in the past year or so is because Nike , Adidas , Troop , Converse , British Knights , Travel Fox , Reebok , LA Gear , Hi-Tec , Jordache , etc , are producing some of the silliest , shittiest trainers known to man ( and woman ) . |
| 3 | In the past year or so , however , these changes have dawned on overseas governments , who now find that there are cheaper courses elsewhere in the world for their students . |
| 4 | We believe that this common factor is so important that during the past year or so we have experimented in ways of bringing the participants together to discuss their ideas and to foster the creation of a spirit of community . |
| 5 | On behalf of all her fans , I would like to wish her the best of luck in 1992 and hope that she will carry on in the dedicated way she has in the past year or so . |
| 6 | One of the lads is proud of the fact that he has managed to avoid doing any writing for the past year or so ! |
| 7 | Over the past year or so , there has been growing concern about the number of cheques being stolen in the post . |
| 8 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 9 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been under withering fire for the past year or so from companies seduced into trying to build machines compatible with Sun 's own — and then finding that the company artfully withholds all the best bits for itself . |
| 10 | ‘ I used to let the critics get to me but over the past year or so I have learned to relax and not worry . |
| 11 | The staff of the Unit continues largely unchanged , though we have been pleased to have had four postdoctorals associated with our activities over the past year or so . |
| 12 | Indeed , more than a dozen joint ventures of various types have been announced in the semi-conductor industry during the past year or so ( many between Japanese and US firms ) , raising questions about whether ‘ too much ’ co-operation will diminish the competitive drive of leading firms in this sector |
| 13 | For the past year or so , all hon. Members except my hon. Friends on the Front Bench have sung from the same hymn book about decommissioning . |
| 14 | We have had several exchanges in the House in the past year or so on the number of people sleeping rough . |
| 15 | I do not want to say that there has been a huge leap in the past year or so , because that would not true , but there has been a big leap since 1980 . |
| 16 | It has been a traumatic time for everyone at Burston during the past year or so and a great deal has been achieved over a very short time . |
| 17 | Surely the proof of any pudding , however , is in the eating and there is little doubt that acupuncture has gained credence and acceptance in the past decade or so . |
| 18 | Over the past decade or so we have also seen changes in our lifestyle with dogs . |
| 19 | This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so . |
| 20 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 21 | Prompted by the rapid development of medical technology over the past decade or so , the medical community has come to reject the notion that death is associated exclusively with breathing and heartbeat , the ‘ vital functions ’ . |
| 22 | Over the past decade or so , all this has changed . |
| 23 | SALES of mistletoe at Christmas have been reducing over the past decade or so . |
| 24 | Over the past decade or so , there has been evidence to show that an increasing number of low-paid families in work were caught in the poverty trap . |
| 25 | During the past decade or so a number of investigators have used electrophysiological techniques to study hemispheric specialisation of function , usually in right handers . |
| 26 | Only within the past decade or so have accountants themselves fully appreciated the wider ramifications of capital expenditure and the need to consult ant utilise the skills of other ‘ experts ’ such as marketing managers . |
| 27 | When considering transport , it is fashionable to say that transport has changed dramatically over the past decade or so , and no one would deny that . |
| 28 | Therefore , it is fair to ask why we are so keen on public transport if all experience over the past decade or so shows a fall in rail and bus passenger services and traffic in rural areas and in cities . |
| 29 | However , during the past decade or so , the Polytechnic has made considerable progress and has continued to develop a wide range of degree , sub-degree and professional courses . |
| 30 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |