Example sentences of "past [adj] years [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour leaders had done well over the past few years to present themselves in Washington as solid members of the alliance and as social democrats more than socialists . |
| 2 | The village hall is run by an energetic committee who have raised sufficient money over the past few years to convert it from a wooden building to a brick one , and to refurbish the interior . |
| 3 | But it was not often that events of the past ten years paraded their shadowy happenings for her attention ; very uncomfortable some of them were too — one unhappy little gamble of Dada 's emptied her purse quite considerably . |
| 4 | Mr Diplexcito , his wife and three daughters have fought a rearguard action for the past two years to stop their cottage at Spittalburn , where they have lived for the past 17 years , being buried by earthworks . |
| 5 | Trafford education authority has received about £13 million in the past two years to help it reorganise and improve its schools . |