Example sentences of "the [noun sg] for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neo-conservative economic policies in vogue throughout the West for the past decade have served to redistribute income upwards , creating the infamous Yuppies with their taste for BMWs and white wines . |
| 2 | The trouble is , I 've been longing to go to the loo for the past hour , and I do n't know how long he 's going to be ! |
| 3 | The fee for John Byrne has n't been disclosed … and the fee for goalkeeper Phil Whitehead who 's been on loan at the Manor for the past month will have to be fixed by tribunal … |
| 4 | Barnet players have not been paid by the club for the past three weeks and , although the Professional Footballers ’ Association have moved in to pick up the £30,000 tab , £80,000 in promotion bonuses remains unpaid . |
| 5 | The Council 's Audit Department and Thames Valley police have been investigating the fraud for the past fortnight . |
| 6 | Tonight the sun shone through elegant Regency stripes of red and cream instead of through the chintz which had hung at the window for the past month . |
| 7 | The Thurston Upper School pupil is a member of the Stowmarket Kyokushinkai Club and has only taken part in the sport for the past three years , progressing from third to runner-up to national champion at his last championships as a junior . |
| 8 | Freddie Fox , officially labelled Frederick Fox , has been designing hats for the Queen for the past 23 years . |
| 9 | At its meeting in January the Scottish Sports Council took the opportunity of paying tribute to their contribution as members of the Council for the past two years . |
| 10 | This airworthy Mitchell , which has been grounded within the Museum for the past five years , is expected to attract a lot of interest from the Australian warbird community . |
| 11 | His deputy , Oscar Lennis , has in fact been largely running the business for the past year . |
| 12 | An Ecumenical Jury has been part of the Festival for the past 19 years . |
| 13 | Sister Linda Buckland , who has been at the General for the past ten years , expressed mixed emotions . |
| 14 | British Coal has had an option to mine the site for the past ten years . |
| 15 | The commander of UN troops in Bosnia , General Philippe Morillon , has been holed up in the town for the past week vowing not to leave until the safety of the inhabitants is assured . |
| 16 | Gen Morillon gave a warning that Srebrenica was close to capture by Bosnian Serb forces , which have besieged the town for the past 11 months . |
| 17 | This meant that John Browne , MP for the constituency for the past 13 years and deselected by his party after failing to declare business interests , lost his deposit . |
| 18 | The East , who have won the title for the past two years , are the defending champions and they select their squad this weekend , as do the South . |
| 19 | The East , who have won the title for the past two years , are the defending champions and they select their squad this weekend , as do the South . |
| 20 | Kelburne , winners of the title for the past three years are always at their best when forced into a tight corner and so on this occasion Magee was the man responsible for getting them out of jail . |
| 21 | Golden Wonder have taken over the race sponsorship from Scottish and Newcastle Breweries , who backed the event for the past ten years . |
| 22 | Mind you , the evidence for the past seven years of the Clarke genius is at last collected on an album that , like the Pet Shop Boys ' ‘ Disco ’ , knows where it came from and is chuffed about it . |
| 23 | Does the Minister recognise that the question of loan sharks has been on the agenda for the past 12 years , but that nothing positive has occurred other than the report to which he referred ? |
| 24 | ‘ I have been trying to get a video of the game for the past four or five years , but I have never had any success . ’ |
| 25 | Secretary of Hindhead preservation Group , Chris Woodward , who is an amateur historian and has been an active campaigner for the area for the past five years , said he was ‘ totally opposed to the change ’ . |
| 26 | If he was indeed the highwayman who had terrorised the area for the past year he had been responsible for the murders of a number of men and women already . |
| 27 | If one takes the narrow definition of manufacturing investment , which excludes a range of investment that is made by manufacturing companies in services that no longer count as manufacturing investment but which they used to do in-house , the average for the past six years was £10.9 billion — much higher than under the previous Labour Government . |
| 28 | over the average for the past 10 years . |
| 29 | These sites together recorded almost 100,000 more birds than the average for the past five years . |
| 30 | Australian mining companies have been pressing hard for the upgrade for the past 18 months but , ironically , demand for Landsat data in the last few months has dropped by 60 per cent . |