Example sentences of "for the past [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past 26 years he has worked in the offices at the Courtaulds Chemicals power station on the Spondon site . |
| 2 | The Governor , Joseph Ada , said that the Guamian people had been held in " serfdom " for the past 91 years while its neighbour states had gained independence . |
| 3 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 4 | For the past 13 years Polisario , operating in jeeps across the semi-desert , has mounted surprise attacks on the huge sand wall which runs across the country . |
| 5 | He is nevertheless expected to have an easy win in the Lyons constituency he has represented for the past 13 years . |
| 6 | Britain has been governed by south-east England for the past 13 years , and it has become possible for London and the Home Counties to ignore some aspects of reality . |
| 7 | This meant that John Browne , MP for the constituency for the past 13 years and deselected by his party after failing to declare business interests , lost his deposit . |
| 8 | And since the Tories have been parked in Number 10 for the past 13 years , they 'll do as targets when the custard pies come to be thrown . |
| 9 | Yet another victim , no doubt , of this Government 's crippling monetary policies , policies which have been driving this country to economic ruin for the past 13 years , and which can be alleviated only by the immediate election of a Labour government . |
| 10 | Is the Minister aware that I have been asking this question , mostly of him , for the past 13 years and that that reply reflects how serious is youth unemployment in Scotland ? |
| 11 | Will the Prime Minister come out of his ivory tower across the road , put his photo calls on hold and face up to his responsibility for the past 13 years of Government mismanagement , which has culminated in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s ? |
| 12 | The words ’ public service ’ are , and for the past 13 years have been , anathema to Conservative Members . |
| 13 | I was about to remind the hon. Gentleman that the present Government have been in office for the past 13 years and therefore must accept a great deal of responsibility . |
| 14 | President Ranasinghe Premadasa reshuffled the Cabinet on March 30 , reappointing Wijetunge as Prime Minister but omitting from the new ministerial team Gamini Dissanayake , a minister for the past 13 years . |
| 15 | He says : ‘ While the number of homes in possession at the end of 1991 was the highest ever at 160 , the previous highest figure was 116 in June 1988 , when the mortgage rate of 9.75pc was the lowest for the past 13 years . |
| 16 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 17 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 18 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 19 | Running like this , with the mad south-west wind behind her , gave her a glorious sense of freedom , for her exercise had been terribly limited for the past five weeks . |
| 20 | He has sold organic wines for the past five years , ever since he got a licence . |
| 21 | I am 30 and have owned Bull Terriers for the past five years . |
| 22 | A federation of recreation industry unions compiled a list of more than 100 MPs from ruling and opposition parties who allegedly received huge sums of money from pachinko barons for the past five years . |
| 23 | This is slightly up on the previous year but for the past five years there has been no substantial rise in the number of asylum-seekers . |
| 24 | Director for the past five years of the National Campaign for the Arts , he previously worked for the former Labour minister , Mr Albert Booth , and the Low Pay Unit . |
| 25 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 26 | The City Centre road races , held in Newcastle and Gateshead for the past five years , have been switched to Aberdeen on May 16 following the end of General Portfolio 's sponsorship . |
| 27 | Dougherty has been doing the basic research and clinical studies for the past five years . |
| 28 | Secretary of Hindhead preservation Group , Chris Woodward , who is an amateur historian and has been an active campaigner for the area for the past five years , said he was ‘ totally opposed to the change ’ . |
| 29 | She told them that she had ‘ done ’ the house for the past five years , and hoped she could go on doing it . |
| 30 | The welfare of these hens has been a controversial issue for many years , and for the past five years we in the Department of Animal Husbandry have been conducting research into ways of improving their welfare . |