Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of 77 trips aboard specially commandeered aircraft in the past two years , Sununu had designated only four as unofficial . |
| 2 | Income has dropped by £80million in the past 2 years and travellers will have to help bail them out . |
| 3 | NHS dentists ’ incomes have dropped in real terms by 40pc over the past ten years and the most recent savage cuts proposed , leave many practitioners worried about possible bankruptcy . ’ |
| 4 | The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has gone up by 25% over the past 150 years . |
| 5 | The death rate for bleeding peptic ulcers has averaged between 6% and 10% over the past 30 years . |
| 6 | He 's given them £342,000 in the past five years to create the ‘ right business environment ’ . |
| 7 | Now the company has 270 staff ( it started out with just 30 three years ago ) , has increased production by 20% over the past year and has a turnover of £l2m ( it expects that to rise to £l4m next year ) . |
| 8 | Economic growth , at an annual average of 4% over the past five years , is not bad in the circumstances , though not as spectacular as the South-East Asian growth rates that Sri Lanka aspires to emulate . |
| 9 | World-wide sea levels have increased only by about 15cm over the past century . |
| 10 | The 11-year-old tearaway , who has netted £150,000 in the past two years , was nicked after a pub raid . |
| 11 | WWF also hopes to control the amount of waste water flowing into the Danube ; pollution has wiped out 70 of the river 's 110 species of fish in the past 10 years and is threatening the ecosystem of the Black Sea . |
| 12 | Members heard how the number of offences has gone up by seventeen percent in the past year although the actual rate of increase does seem to be slowing up . |
| 13 | That 's a rise of eleven percent in the past year . |
| 14 | A thorough and systematic evaluation of the kinds of support which have passed between kin over the past two centuries is a separate project in its own right . |
| 15 | Proceeding with due caution therefore , we can ask : what do we know about patterns of support between kin over the past two centuries ? |
| 16 | Figures just out show that coal imports have risen by five hundred percent over the past ten years . |
| 17 | In peseta terms , the cost of American assets has fallen by about 5% in the past year . |
| 18 | True , industrial economies ' output was flat in 1991 and grew by only 1.5% in 1992 , while Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union suffered a serious slump , but in the developing world output has grown by an average of no less than 5% in the past two years , as many economies in Asia and Latin America have boomed . |
| 19 | Some models suggest that the earth has already been committed to a warming of at least 1.5 °C by the current increases in greenhouse gases even though global temperatures have actually risen by only 0.5 °C in the past century . |
| 20 | The level of graduate recruitment among the top eight accountancy firms has fallen by 9% over the past year , according to a survey of firms carried out by ACCOUNTANCY ( see table below ) . |
| 21 | Real wages in Australia have fallen by 5% over the past seven years ; in Britain they have risen by almost 20% . |
| 22 | In the wake of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , a damning report from English Nature shows that ancient woodlands have declined by nearly 50% in the past 50 years — that is faster than the felling of the rainforests in Brazil . |
| 23 | An example of subjective probability is as follows : the Production Manager of a fast-growing microcomputer manufacturer , whose production has increased by 50% in the past year , without additional capital investment , now estimates the probability of repeating that 50% growth rate as .4 , given no change in investment levels . |
| 24 | The Northern regional director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund paid tribute to the region 's fund raisers who helped the charity make £635,000 in the past year . |
| 25 | Sound advice from a man who has lived in the eyes of the media for the past 10 years . |
| 26 | My Board colleagues and I are appreciative of all that has been achieved by Management and Staff during the past twelve months and I am immensely grateful to the Deputy Chairman and all Members of the Board for their unfailing support and co-operation during an eventful and , I believe , very successful year of operations . |
| 27 | This section begins by looking at the changing fate of old people during the past century as they have retired . |
| 28 | , who has organised the Society Sales for the past few years feels the job now needs a fresh input of ideas — Would any one like to take this on ? ? ? |
| 29 | Fiat , whose market share in Italy has slid from around 60% to 44% in the past four years , said on May 25th that it will ask the Italian government for more financial help with temporary lay-offs , because of the slump in European car sales . |
| 30 | But the police have killed 46 people in the past five years , including 12 last year . |