Example sentences of "time [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nurturing this side of the business — with dramatic success — has occupied most of his time for the past 10 years . |
| 2 | Why have you been giving me such a hard time for the past ten minutes ? ’ |
| 3 | Despite a £750,000 Government campaign , only 31,942 overseas residents have taken advantage of legislation giving the vote to expatriates who have lived in Britain at any time during the past 20 years . |
| 4 | Barlow , who helped Freed State win the Nissan Shield for the first time during the past season , has taken up his appointment in time to lead Transvaal in partnership with captain Jimmy Cook on the short tour of England in July . |
| 5 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
| 6 | Freed from restrictions about who to lend to or how much to pay to depositors , and freed from the responsibility of supporting their corporate clients through thin times , American and British commercial banks are weaker than at any time in the past 50 years . |
| 7 | Tony Blair , Labour 's Employment Secretary , is said to be privately impressed that fewer days are now lost to strikes than at any time in the past 60 years . |
| 8 | ‘ Mr Stevens , this is the fourth or fifth time in the past two days you have felt such a need . |
| 9 | Not for the first time in the past few months , Jonadab was disturbed to recognise envy and the seeds of discord in his youngest son . |
| 10 | CAPRICORN — VERY few Capricorns have had a whale of a time in the past few years . |
| 11 | It was to no purpose , however , for Franco was no more inclined to negotiate now than at any time in the past year . |
| 12 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 13 | The company is now looking at a future that is brighter than for any time in the past 20 years . |
| 14 | Because trying to meet this criterion has occupied so much of my research time in the past two decades it is worth spelling out again that to adopt a reductionist methodology in research strategy — that is , to try to stabilize the world that one is studying by manipulating one variable at a time , holding everything else as constant as possible — is generally the only way to do experiments from which one can draw clear conclusions . |
| 15 | ‘ This is n't the first time in the past two years he 's stalked out of our house in a jealous rage , swearing that this time our relationship is over for good . ’ |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman puts his finger on an extremely important issue which has absorbed an enormous amount of my time in the past year . |
| 17 | Greece has suffered more forest fires this summer than at any time in the past 40 years . |
| 18 | MORE Israelis now favour ceding occupied Arab lands and the formation of an independent Palestinian state than at any other time in the past six years , according to an opinion poll published yesterday . |
| 19 | The Burscough boss believes he can put his finger on why his side can consistently beat opposition from higher leagues , as they have done time after time in the past two years , yet struggle at their own level . |
| 20 | That 's the second time in the past four weeks we 've had missed that . |
| 21 | And that 's the second time in the past four weeks that those pieces have been missing from it . |
| 22 | That 's the second time in the past four weeks we 've had missed that |
| 23 | And that 's the second time in the past four weeks that those pieces have been missing from it |
| 24 | Total business declined in the first quarter , although at a slower rate than at any time over the past year . |
| 25 | The Lord Chancellor 's Department and social services departments were involved in the training of 140,000 social service staff last year , when the social service standard spending assessment increased more than at any time over the past 15 years . |
| 26 | The hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) has spent much of his time over the past few months telling industry about his policies . |