Example sentences of "a [noun sg] for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And , while I appreciate your charitable intent in trying to comfort me for Lotta 's absence from my bed , I tell you once more that the time when I might have needed consolation for Lotta 's tricks has long since passed , and the fact that I 've chosen to live the life of a monk for the past six months is because until the past few days I have felt no desire to give in to the temptations paraded before me . ’ |
| 2 | Brighter are so deeply drippy that they make Blueboy look like the English Metallica , Brighter sound like they 've been locked in a bedroom for the past six years and are still trying to come up with that ‘ C86 ’ audition tape . |
| 3 | I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations ! |
| 4 | The conservative Blaize , who died of prostate cancer and had been confined to a wheelchair for the past year , lost his parliamentary majority five months ago but had clung to office despite opposition protests . |
| 5 | I 've been a virgin for the past ten years . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the company has succeeded in making a profit for the past seven years . |
| 8 | Dryfield Finance of Yeovil , Somerset has been registered as a bank for the past 10 years and its Tessas are also covered by the deposit-holders ' protection scheme . |
| 9 | HAVING been laid low with a virus for the past month , Alison Sheppard will make a tentative return to competition in next weekend 's West of Scotland Championships before facing world-class competition in the Edinburgh International Meet from 8-10 April . |
| 10 | President Ranasinghe Premadasa reshuffled the Cabinet on March 30 , reappointing Wijetunge as Prime Minister but omitting from the new ministerial team Gamini Dissanayake , a minister for the past 13 years . |
| 11 | The visit of the Morris Men was arranged with the help of BNFL safety auditor David Pratt , of Risley , who has been a member for the past two years . |
| 12 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 13 | Actor , film maker , entrepreneur , he 's a many of many parts , including , for example , an association for the past seventeen or eighteen years with the University of Sussex . |
| 14 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
| 15 | Whitlock , who had been watching the entrance from the comfort of an armchair for the past ten minutes , got to his feet and shook her extended hand . |