Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] in the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at what she 'd faced in the past twelve hours . |
| 2 | They were new shoes but already scuffed and dusty from the amount of walking he had done in the past few days . |
| 3 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |
| 4 | He had seen the pose in several paintings in the churches and galleries he had visited in the past two weeks . |
| 5 | Of these , 25 chose to take no part in the farm work , 2 were over 70 years of age , 4 had died in the past five years , and 3 farmers were unmarried . |
| 6 | He said 87 people had died in the past two months — but that deaths occurring on the trek to the camp were not being recorded . |
| 7 | The ANC 's letter described it as inconceivable that the authorities lacked the capacity to stop the factional fighting , in which 1,200 people had died in the past seven months . |
| 8 | Amnesty International reported in July , however , that reprisals had continued against the civilian population , at least 50 of whom had died in the past two months . |
| 9 | Still trying to regain the imposing form he had displayed in the past days at Celtic and West Ham , there was a strong suspicion that McAvennie was past his prime . |
| 10 | His tremor had worsened in the past weeks , a mild oscillation had become a violent jerk of the head . |
| 11 | The monarchy fared worst — 85 per cent thought its standing had decreased in the past ten years ; 76 per cent thought the Government 's standing had decreased , followed by the law ( 65 per cent ) , the church ( 59 per cent ) , journalists ( 59 per cent ) , the police ( 57 per cent ) , the family ( 55 per cent ) , teachers ( 50 per cent ) and social workers ( 49 per cent ) . |
| 12 | Both Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitism had declined in the past decade , in part reflecting the deaths of Germans old enough to remember Nazi Germany before the war . |
| 13 | In Derbyshire , the farmers who replied that their expectations had changed in the past five years were those whose sons had returned to the farm in that time . |