Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman will want to know that during the past two years personal social services standard spending will have increased by nearly 33 per cent . |
| 2 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 3 | Yes , I welcome the substantial orders that have been received and I was pleased to see that in the past few days a number of them have come here . |
| 4 | I am glad to report that in the past few months we have made real progress with the car manufacturers . |
| 5 | I do want to record that during the past colleagues have , almost without exception , done their best to work the system and I have greatly appreciated that . |
| 6 | According to an evaluation report this may reflect an unwillingness to admit that in the past schools have been sex biased ( Payne , Cuff and Hustler , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |