Example sentences of "past [noun sg] [prep] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past couple of years we have seen application tools embrace the facilities offered by the Windows front end or graphics user interfaces ( GUIs ) . |
| 2 | Over the past couple of years they have waited patiently while the Microsoft and IBM products converged . |
| 3 | In the past couple of years he has started buying up small collections of 30 or 40 , but his weekly forays around antique fairs are now yielding only three or four new designs a year . |
| 4 | For the past couple of years he has also appeared in pantomime with Rolf Harris . |
| 5 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 6 | ‘ It is something I have had to come to terms with because in the past couple of years I have had to fly hundreds of times . |