Example sentences of "in [noun sg] for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBOA and its members have grave concerns about this development and negotiations have been in progress for the past number of months . |
| 2 | It has clearly been in hibernation as well as in opposition for the past 12 years . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 4 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 5 | Well look at the time you see I did promise at one o'clock to make five o'clock arrive earlier , quicker and we got there in style for the past four hours . |
| 6 | After all , the leading ministers had been continuously in office for the past ten years , and had achieved many of their declared objectives . |
| 7 | I was about to remind the hon. Gentleman that the present Government have been in office for the past 13 years and therefore must accept a great deal of responsibility . |
| 8 | Politics as they know it — the system that has kept them in power for the past 45 years — is being challenged by two younger men from their own party . |
| 9 | The engineering industry has continued in decline for the past year . |