Example sentences of "it for the past [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 2 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 3 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 4 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 5 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 6 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |