Example sentences of "of [noun sg] for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not follow that he could not say , ‘ You must now pay me the arrears of rent for the past year . ’ |
| 2 | The voice of sport for the past quarter of a century will be approaching 71 when the next Olympic torch arrives in Atlanta in 1996 . |
| 3 | The redoubtable Carmen Callil , who has held sway as managing director of Chatto for the past 11 years , will assume a new role as ‘ publisher at large ’ of the Random House Group . |
| 4 | Branco Babic has been trying to find a manufacturer who 's interested in the possibilities of strawcrete for the past two years . |
| 5 | Mister Grant has passed the crisis point now , and you 've been denying yourself proper amounts of sleep for the past five days . |
| 6 | The restaurant has been awarded the Les Routiers ‘ Casserole ’ of excellence for the past four years . |
| 7 | He said last night : ‘ I 've had a spot of bother for the past four or five years with my knee so I had these X-rays done and they found a bone growth about the size of a pea . |
| 8 | In peephological terms , the voters have been fed large doses of medicine for the past month . |