Example sentences of "past four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liverpool have scored only twice in the past four games , and Rush , with six this season , has not hit the net since the middle of September . |
| 2 | Liverpool have scored only twice in the past four games , and Rush , with six this season , has not hit the net since the middle of September . |
| 3 | No house built in the past four decades has a front porch ( verandah , for Britons ) ; Americans prefer the private world of their expansive back lawns . |
| 4 | And in the past four decades we 've lost half of it . |
| 5 | But the eastern Europeans have tried to put the past four decades behind them as if they had never existed . |
| 6 | More broadly , the strategy forms a kind of palimpsest of liberal views about the subsidised arts over the past four decades . |
| 7 | Here then , is our own selection of some of the greatest NME covers of the past four decades . |
| 8 | Built into most policy development over the past four decades , even anti-sexist and anti-racist initiatives , has been the assumption that girls and black pupils are ‘ problems ’ ; that they either have problems or pose problems that are different from other groups of pupils . |
| 9 | Another major factor we need to consider for black citizens in the UK is the way in which black groups have been defined politically over the past four decades . |
| 10 | Detroit 's population has dwindled by half during the past four decades , to barely 1m . |
| 11 | Over the past four decades , Japanese managers have often readily admitted that their companies have much to learn from more creative Americans or Europeans . |
| 12 | In the past four decades teaching has become increasingly child-centred . |
| 13 | If one looks at the diversity of approaches to the development of education management in the past four decades , it seems that there are two or three which will meet new needs . |
| 14 | Councillor Bob Middleton , the Labour convener of Grampian Region , paid tribute to Mr Sim 's tremendous contribution to local government over the past four decades . |
| 15 | Councillor Bob Middleton , the Labour convener of Grampian Region , paid tribute to Mr Sim 's tremendous contribution to local government over the past four decades . |
| 16 | Well look at the time you see I did promise at one o'clock to make five o'clock arrive earlier , quicker and we got there in style for the past four hours . |
| 17 | Where have you been for the past four hours ? ’ |
| 18 | Executors we 've dealt with and expenses , alterations I 've just dealt with er Oh if you want to change you mind , and remember a will is only a piece of paper until you die , you can change your mind as often as you like I have made a will in the past Four wills in one year for one of my clients , his right he 's perfectly entitled to do that er and it 's better that you alter it frequently if your circumstances change than that you do n't be aware of how things go in the way that you do n't want them do . |
| 19 | They have advanced down the Asmara road in the past four weeks and are now reported to be operating south of Dese . |
| 20 | One estimate puts government losses in the past four weeks at 20,000 killed , captured or deserted . |
| 21 | Sutton Borough Council , the local authority , lost 25,000 trees during the storm of 1987 and is furious at losing several hundred more in the past four weeks to BR chainsaws . |
| 22 | Outside No 10 , Mr Major smiled broadly as the tension of the past four weeks evaporated . |
| 23 | The fact that , for the past four weeks , Ireland has barely been mentioned is an indictment of them all . |
| 24 | As the Russian-Cuban and Chinese plans develop for Southern Africa , I have been spending much of the past four weeks working with a man who played a part twenty years ago in developing these plans . |
| 25 | ‘ For the past four weeks I 've been in the Middle East on business , and this place has been empty and locked up . ’ |
| 26 | The UK Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews agreed on Nov. 16 that progress had been made in the talks when round-table and committee stages gave way to bilateral contacts during the past four weeks , although there had been no bilateral meeting between the Irish government and the Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 27 | In the past four weeks about 130 residents living close to the Sydenham base have complained of nausea and headaches which they blame on aircraft fumes . |
| 28 | That 's the second time in the past four weeks we 've had missed that . |
| 29 | And that 's the second time in the past four weeks that those pieces have been missing from it . |
| 30 | That 's the second time in the past four weeks we 've had missed that |