Example sentences of "only [prep] [art] past [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The field has been open to females only during the past year but we soon expect at least 10 per cent of dog-training course applicants will be female . ’ |
| 2 | But it was only during the past year that she had realized that they were — in the eyes of people like Felicity , at any rate — very badly off . |
| 3 | Only within the past decade or so have accountants themselves fully appreciated the wider ramifications of capital expenditure and the need to consult ant utilise the skills of other ‘ experts ’ such as marketing managers . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 5 | For the moment , what concerns us is that this government is the product of change extending over several centuries , coming to fruition only in the past century . |
| 6 | Yet it is only in the past decade that biologists have begun to appreciate the real extent of it . |
| 7 | Although microbial polyesters were discovered in the 1920s , it is only in the past decade that there has been an explosion of international research interest in all aspects of their production , formulation and use . |
| 8 | It seems strange that this great surge of medical interest in dietary fibre should have occurred only in the past decade . |