Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] past few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ) received a public rebuke last week from the government 's financial watchdog for its handling of several capital projects during the past few years . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend has just referred to the car industry 's exports during the past few years , and especially this year , which reflect the quality of the product and the improvements in manufacturing technology . |
| 3 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 4 | However , because of the increased numbers of applicants applying to polytechnics in the past few years , it will most probably decide to implement such a scheme . |
| 5 | Some of the more broadly-based share indices have suffered sharper losses in the past few weeks and analysts believe the Dow could soon match these declines . |
| 6 | A spokesman said there had been several raids on homes in the past few days by sneak thieves . |
| 7 | We have been one of the foremost supporters of the United Nations , and the Government have played the prime role in enhancing the position of the United Nations in the past few years . |
| 8 | Frankie Parks ' side 's performances over the past few weeks will be envied by Blues ' boss Trevor Anderson . |
| 9 | The Worldwide Fund for Nature is , of course , just one part of a huge international Green Movement , in which we have seen massive increases in the number of supporters over the past few years . |
| 10 | As one Palestinian remarked : ‘ Many splits of the past few years have already been forgotten . |
| 11 | The anxieties and misgivings of the past few days disappeared as though they had never been , as Johnny kissed her and touched her and told her of his need for her ; of his despair when she had not come to him . |
| 12 | Tersely , he recalled his experiences of the past few hours . |
| 13 | As I have said , we have seen enormous changes , but I advise my right hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench and all hon. Members who will continue to serve in Parliament in the coming years that the changes that have taken place in those countries in the past few years could well be repeated on an enormous scale in other countries . |
| 14 | It is to be hoped that her business is now sufficiently stable to realise the opportunity , for she has clocked up three managing directors in the past few years . |
| 15 | Violence between Muslims and Hindus in India is reported to have claimed some 300 lives in the past few months . |
| 16 | Mailer 's press and public appearances over the past few years had shown a tendency , much like everyone else 's , to be a bit — well — paparazzi -orientated . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've seen a big rise in unfurnished lettings over the past few months , ’ she says . |
| 18 | Jackson , Mississippi-based LDDS Communications Inc , Metromedia Communications Corp and Resurgens Communications Group Inc have now reached the letter of intent stage in their plan to merge with LDDS shareholders retaining about 68.5% of the combined company and John Kluge , chairman of Metromedia , expected to be chairman of the combined company with Bernard Ebbers , LDDS chief executive , taking that post ; the combined company will be the fourth largest long-distance carrier in the US , a title that has been held by a whole string of companies over the past few years . |
| 19 | He could not explain it , but his putting had gone to pieces for the past few months and he was missing shots which formerly he would have holed with ease . |
| 20 | Many people have made substantial personal fortunes in the past few years , Mr Palumbo writes in the council 's annual report , and having inherited the mantle of the great patrons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , they should acknowledge their responsibilities by returning a portion of their good fortune to the community . |
| 21 | The Daily Mail , the Sun and many other such papers have contained a series of unpleasant , vituperative stories against individuals in the past few months . |
| 22 | Frequent sales from central banks over the past few years have barely eaten into stocks . |
| 23 | Five members of WACC 's General Secretariat staff have assumed new responsibilities over the past few weeks . |
| 24 | In Galway itself , the scenes and actions of the past few years had brought him to early maturity as a willing recruit for the politics of the street fight . |
| 25 | His whole life had become a series of unanswered questions in the past few days . |
| 26 | We have considerable success with all the teams in the past few years , and even when not winning , the boys enjoy their football . |
| 27 | Recent ice core studies from Antarctica show temperature changes in the past few years far greater than any in the past 400 years . |
| 28 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 29 | Things had gone well for both families over the past few seasons and each farm was thriving . |
| 30 | THE IMPROVEMENT in Safeway 's wines over the past few years is a continual source of pleasure to me , and each time they show their wine range to the world I turn up expecting just a little bit more . |