Example sentences of "which [prep] the past [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I am thinking , for example , of the city of Belfast and other urban areas throughout Northern Ireland which in the past year have suffered more than ever from air pollution .
2 In 1985 he had set up a consultancy firm which in the past year had advised the government on privatization .
3 Supporters of the ANL in the NorthEast are particularly concerned about the ambitions of the BNP including the intention to field a General Election candidate in Darlington and racial attacks which in the past year have included nailing a pig 's head to a synagogue in Sunderland and a similar attack in South Shields .
4 The Strategic Defence Initative Organisation , which over the past decade has spent some $10 billion in answer to Ronald Reagan 's call for a defence that would make nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete , is no more .
5 Yet the young are living in an age which over the past year has become dramatically uncertain .
6 It can see through clouds , which over the past week have stymied satellites using visible light , and even penetrate the soil .
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