Example sentences of "past [num] [noun] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the past eight years the use of natural gas has been rising , but wind and solar power have also been increasing dramatically . |
| 2 | What this broadening and wide variation demonstrates is that over the past 30 years the issue of child abuse has become symbolically and politically very powerful ( Parton , 1985 ; Nelson , 1986 ) in arguments about the welfare state and the family . |
| 3 | Over the past 12 months the price of lower medium quality tea , which is the main ingredient in the British cuppa and imparts that unique lorry-driver flavour , has almost doubled from 78p a kilogramme to 135p . |
| 4 | Latest provisional figures for in-patients and day cases for September 1991 show that in the past six months the number of patients waiting over a year fell by 7 per cent . |
| 5 | Over the past 10 years the debt of sub-Saharan countries has tripled to $180bn and these countries now hand over one third of their foreign exchange earnings in debt payments . |
| 6 | Over the past 10 years the growth of the Campaign for Real Ale has reflected the rejection by a section of the public of the mass-sale brands which the big brewers were selling in apparently uniformly decorated pubs . |
| 7 | Pregnancy and birth complications are 1.7 times more common in Arkhangelsk than in neighbouring districts , and in the past three years the incidence of cancer and blood diseases in children has risen threefold . |
| 8 | In the past twenty-five years the role of women on farms had changed dramatically . |
| 9 | More than once in the past 50 years the concept of readability measurement and prediction has been castigated as facile and simplistic , despite the earnest attempts of most readability researchers themselves to portray their work in a balanced and untendentious way . |
| 10 | It opened with his favourite theme : ‘ During the past ten years the system of standing Cabinet Committees has proved its value as a means of relieving the Cabinet of a great weight of less important business . ’ |
| 11 | Over the past five years the pace of discharges from psychiatric hospitals has accelerated as elderly patients have been transferred to the community . |
| 12 | Over the past five years the concept of the ‘ ansaphone ’ has been extended to incorporate the idea of ‘ voice mail ’ . |
| 13 | And the situation is getting worse … in the past five years the number of reported cases of serious backpain has risen by forty percent . |
| 14 | In the past twenty years the population of this town has almost doubled and the number of cars using the roads has trebled , making that quote much much more topical . |
| 15 | During the past twenty years the role of export education has been fulfilled by the Institute of Export without any assistance or recognition whatsoever . |
| 16 | Yet by the end of the 1960s , institutions had once again become places of last resort , and over the past thirty years the numbers of youngsters admitted to institutions has declined sharply in all three countries ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ; Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | Over the past two decades the management of myocardial infarction has been revolutionised in two ways : the first was the development of DC defibrillation for ventricular fibrillation with the possibility of correcting this condition outside hospital , where the highest incidence exists , and the second major advance has been thrombolytic therapy . |
| 18 | Yet over the past two decades the period of development , of safety testing , and of approval , has risen from 3 or 4 years , to something like 10 years . |
| 19 | Over the past two years the number of class members attending Study Group days has fallen off considerably . |
| 20 | For the past two years the trustees of the Marriott Bequest have funded a scheme aimed at giving young members of the RSC a taste of scientific publishing . |
| 21 | Is the Leader of the House aware that three times in the past 24 hours the Chancellor of the Exchequer has refused to answer direct questions about the Government 's plans for further increases in VAT ? |
| 22 | Over the past 20 years the principle of a referendum has been accepted by Parliament for membership of the EEC , devolution in Scotland and Wales and maintenance of the Union in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | Over the past 20 years the Department of the Environment , its Property Services Agency , English Heritage , the Queen 's household and , in the case of the Tower of London , the military have run the palaces together — with the success normally associated with widely-drawn committees . |