1. The group has been notoriously fickle in the past.

2. Women have become more assertive in the past decade.

3. In the past the exam had been overemphasized.

4. These things happened in the past years.

5. Do not make life difficutt in the past.

6. In the past, many children died in infancy.

7. Back to have in the past, returned to the original.

8. Life is not waiting for the storm in the past, but learning to dance.

9. In the past, a woman needed to be chaste to make a good marriage.

10. In the past, armies used catapults to hurl heavy stones at enemy fortifications.

11. It has developed very fast in the past years,more and more people come here to seek opportunities.

12. In the past central government had a monopoly on television broadcasting.

13. We always want to forget the past, but in the past, but did not forget us.

14. We always want to forget the past, but in the past,[/in the past.html] but did not forg.

15. In the past, I only wanted people to see the best of me. Now, I find that I do not mind your seeing my faults because I want you to accept me the way I am.

16. We all live in the past. We take a minute to know someone, one hour to like someone, and one day to love someone, but the whole life to forget someone.

17. In the past kitchen knives were made in a forge.

18. It was fashionable in the past that women were laced in.

19. Hospitals now tend to discharge patients earlier than in the past.

20. Add -ed to all these verbs to put them in the past tense.

21. The report will be left on the shelf as so many reports have been left in the past.

22. The levels of trade union and political activism in this country have greatly declined in the past fifteen years.

23. More than 70 000 shopkeepers have been forced to put up the shutters in the past year.

24. The way we work has undergone a radical transformation in the past decade.

25. Wishing you a birthday that is among your very best.I hope that all the years ahead will be as happy as you have been in the past.

26. The country's leader has expressed a wish to atone for his actions in the past.

27. We learn to let go of things and people that hurt us in the past and just move on. For life is all about moving on.

28. Some US industries are not as competitive as they have been in the past.

29. Many of the aid projects in the developing world have been misdirected in the past.

30. We did an analysis of the way that government money has been spent in the past.

1. The group has been notoriously fickle in the past.

2. Women have become more assertive in the past decade.

3. In the past the exam had been overemphasized.

4. In the past, many children died in infancy.

5. Add -ed to all these verbs to put them in the past tense.

6. In the past, a woman needed to be chaste to make a good marriage.

7. The levels of trade union and political activism in this country have greatly declined in the past fifteen years.

8. More than 70 000 shopkeepers have been forced to put up the shutters in the past year.

9. In the past, armies used catapults to hurl heavy stones at enemy fortifications.

10. The way we work has undergone a radical transformation in the past decade.

11. In the past central government had a monopoly on television broadcasting.

12. The country's leader has expressed a wish to atone for his actions in the past.

13. Some US industries are not as competitive as they have been in the past.

14. Many of the aid projects in the developing world have been misdirected in the past.

15. In the past kitchen knives were made in a forge.

16. We did an analysis of the way that government money has been spent in the past.

17. Hospitals now tend to discharge patients earlier than in the past.

18. In the past, people who suffered from schizophrenia were often put away.

19. The number of juveniles in the general population has fallen by a fifth in the past 10 years.

20. She's done some design work for us in the past.

21. In the past the root of this plant was thought to possess magical powers which could cure baldness.

22. In narrative, the reporting verb is in the past tense.

23. In the past, British convicts could be sentenced to transportation.

24. It falls to our generation to fulfill the great aspirations cherished by countless martyrs in the past.

31. In the past, people who suffered from schizophrenia were often put away.

32. The number of juveniles in the general population has fallen by a fifth in the past 10 years.

33. She's done some design work for us in the past.

34. Life is not waiting for the storm in the past, but learning to dance in the wind and rain.

35. In the past the root of this plant was thought to possess magical powers which could cure baldness.

36. I just look at you now smiling silent pride lost so I follow you follow you happy and sad but I always stand now but you never stay in the past.

37. Whatever happened in the past is gone, the best is always yet to come.

38. He's had three accidents in the past fortnight.

39. You must stop living in the past .

40. Business has increased tenfold in the past two years.

41. I've been there many times in the past.

42. In the past decade, the city has been reborn.

43. Don't worry about it?it's all in the past now.

44. Oil prices jumped in the past year.

45. She had been let down badly in the past.

46. She's had a lot of disappointments in the past.

47. Pliant judges have been a problem in the past.

48. In the past she lived in a dream.

49. He's been guilty of sharp practice in the past.

50. I used to go there often in the past.

51. I've had my share of luck in the past.

52. In the past conservatives have been in the minority.

53. What secrets lie buried in the past?

54. In the past,[http:///in the past.html] English criminals were transported to Australia.

55. It happened in the past.

56. We've had dealings with him in the past.

57. She has been mistreated by men in the past.

58. He was involved in shady deals in the past.

59. The lake was smaller in the past.

60. The company's debt has ballooned in the past year.

61. This tradition is also firmly rooted in the past.

62. In the past I have had many jobs.

63. After all the suffering that you have had to reckon with in the past, your present struggle will seem easy.

64. In the past women were cheated out of their chance for education.

65. The sense of let-down today is all the greater because in the past doctors have been over-confident about these treatments.

66. I've had my fair share of success in the past.

67. The shares have plummeted from 130p to 2.25p in the past year.

68. Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.

69. In narrative, the reporting verb is in the past tense.

70. They have been so feather-bedded in the past that they can't cope with hardship now.

71. Children challenge their parents' authority far more nowadays than they did in the past.

72. It's time she stopped living in the past and began to think about her future.

73. In the past, your family was the first resort when looking for a job.

74. I admit that I have made mistakes in the past.

74. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.

75. In the past 10 years, preventive measures have radically reduced levels of tooth decay in children.

76. In the past two years, one-party rule has vanished from Eastern Europe.

77. Despite what happened in the past I want her to know I am there for her.

78. In the past, people thought it was their religious duty to give alms to the poor.

79. In the past, navigation depended on a knowledge of the positions of the stars.

80. In the past they have been the target of racist abuse.

81. We are still dealing with problems resulting from errors made in the past.

82. The average temperature worldwide has risen by about one degree Fahrenheit in the past 100 years.

83. I think her husband must be dead - she always talks about him in the past tense.

84. The CIA was extremely wary of interfering with the foreign Press; in the past, such interference had rebounded.

85. There's no use wailing about/over mistakes made in the past.

86. He will cast away this money just as he has done in the past.

87. You mustn't think about it. It's all in the past now.

88. Let things remain as they have been in the past.

89. The longer you have been in shape in the past, the quicker you will regain fitness in future.

90. We would like to thank all of our customers for their patronage in the past.

91. In the past most royal marriages were marriages of convenience, arranged for political reasons.

92. In the past he dallied with actresses and lady novelists.

93. In the past five years, there has been a vast improvement in graduation rates.

94. If you've shied away from making pancakes in the past, don't be put off-there's really nothing in it!

95. In the past this process of transition has often proven difficult.

96. The sales chart shows a distinct decline in the past few months.

97. What was the point in living in the past, thinking about what had or had not happened?

98. The number of single adult households has doubled in the past 30 years.

99. In the sentence "I stroked the cat", "stroked" is in the past tense.

100. It would be silly to let things which have happened in the past drive a wedge between us now.

101. In the past, men who wanted to work with children were regarded as something of a curiosity.

102. In the past, this sort of work was all done by hand.

103. In the past, the UN has stayed out of the internal affairs of countries unless invited in.

104. I've seen little of her in the past few weeks.

105. We are no nearer agreement now than in the past.

106. Agriculture was based in the past on the family as a unit.

107. In the past,[http:///in the past.html] the majority of women were consigned to a lifetime of servitude and poverty.

108. In the past we have heard only negatives when it came to following a healthy diet.

109. The country's citizenry is/are more politically aware than in the past.

110. Once events are safely in the past, this idea seems to become less alarming.

111. In the past, British convicts could be sentenced to transportation.

112. He lives in the past now,bethinking himself of happier days.

113. I'm afraid I look on all travel companies' claims with a rather jaundiced eye, having been disappointed by them so often in the past.

114. In the past they've tended to turn a deaf ear to such requests.

115. Real wage costs have risen by 10% in the past year.

116. In the past eight years, the elephant population in Africa has been halved.

117. This restaurant which was once one of the best in New York,has gone down steadily in the past few months.

118. Thousands of new businesses have sprung up in the past couple of years.

119. Have you had any serious relationships in the past year?

120. More than two hundred people have reportedly been killed in the past week's fighting.

121. They have not hesitated in the past to liquidate their rivals.

122. In the past, the party would have closed ranks around its leader and defended him loyally.

123. She's made all sorts of wild accusations against me in the past.

124. In the past, bear-baiting was a common form of entertainment in Britain.

125. Homes are more affordable than at any time in the past five years.

126. Life expectancy for both men and women has improved greatly in the past 20 years.

127. The industry has achieved record exports in the past year.

128. In the past he has pooh-poohed suggestions that he might succeed Isaacs.

129. Now turn the question around and start looking not for what you did wrong in the past, but for what you can do to make things better in the future.

130. A dozen inmates have absconded from Forest Jail in the past year.

131. Parents are no longer allowed to chastise their children as they did in the past.

132. Many of his clients are unbelievably nervous, usually because of a bad experience in the past.

133. This is the school to which your farther subscribed generously in the past.

134. In the past few years share prices have gone through the floor.

135. Its intention is to restore pride in the past and create a more mannered society.

136. Business has been thriving in the past year. Long may it continue to do so.

137. The cost of living had been racing up in the past year.

138. In the past army troops have relied heavily on air support to get them out of trouble.

139. I haven't seen much of her in the past few weeks.

140. Students have played an important role in the past, but for the moment,[] they're on the margins.

141. Car styles have changed radically in the past 20 years.

142. We can satisfy our basic wants more easily than in the past.

143. In the past few decades foreign goods flooded the markets of the developing countries.

144. In the past[], about a third of the babies born to women with diabetes were lost.

145. Thousands of cows have succumbed to the disease in the past few months.

146. Bicycles are regarded as an economical alternative to buses whose fares have increased 5 times in the past 3 years.

147. The company's had a lot of problems in the past, but it's always managed to bounce back.

148. Thanks to computer animation, it is now possible to make cartoon films much more quickly than in the past.

149. Private car ownership has almost doubled in the past 10 years.

150. We're going to have to stop living in the past and invest in new technology if the firm is to survive.

151. I've trusted my instincts in the past and they've usually been right.

152. In the past, the elections have been marked by hundreds of murders, but this time round the violence has been much more limited.

153. In the past, many kids would settle disputes by punching each other out.

154. The way in which we work has undergone a complete transformation in the past decade.

155. Here's our file on the results of the business in the past five years.

156. Life in the countryside remained firmly rooted in the past.

157. The doctor had encountered several similar cases in the past.

158. Doubts about the government's policies are being expressed even by people who have been supportive of the government in the past.

159. In the past few years they have been dealing with quite a few international corporations successfully.

160. New world records in the track and field events are chalked up from time to time in the past few years.

161. It falls to our generation to fulfill the great aspirations cherished by countless martyrs in the past.

162. After their rude attitude in the past, we feel distinctly indisposed to help them now.

163. We've had our differences in the past, but we get on OK now.

164. He hopes to improve on his tally of three goals in the past nine games.

164. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

165. Some people amnestied in the past could face legal action in the future.

166. They have progressed in the past few years from copying to designing.

167. Why don't you lay on the bed? In the past tenses laid is often wrongly used for lay or lain :She had lain there all night.

168. Two thirds of the region has been deforested in the past decade.

169. In the past, the region had been protected by its forbidding geography and the extremities of its climate.

170. The lifeboat has had ten call-outs in the past year.

171. They'd altered his shift pattern twice in the past fortnight.

172. Real incomes have gone up by 10% in the past year.

173. Today is a historic occasion for our country. Historical usually describes something that is connected with the past or with the study of history, or something that really happened in the past:I have been doing some historical research.

174. Today, people are much more concerned about their health than they were in the past.

175. They've accommodated far more bizarre ones in the past.

176. In the past it was criticised for political bias.

177. The Forest of Dean has suffered many abuses in the past.

178. In the past couple of years, however, it has come bouncing back.

179. All these situations have been assessed by the Supreme Court in the past 10 years and approved.

180. Many people have studied languages in the past in school or elsewhere and this knowledge can be built upon.

181. The biggest factor could be in the building of an on-campus arena, something Garrett has discussed in the past.

182. In the past week or so householders throughout the country have been opening their April water bills and gaping.

183. In the past two years 200,000 Wa are believed to have settled along the border.

184. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral.

185. Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless, aimless Government.

186. I use the word consciously, very much aware that it has been used in the past to demean adult women.

187. Trafford education authority has received about ￡13 million in the past two years to help it reorganise and improve its schools.

188. Linear preoccupation in the past remains a closed book to modern understanding.

189. This is a mantra that has proved to be a winning argument in the past.

190. In the past two months there has been a rash of newspaper advertisements for unlicensed patches available by mail order.

191. Substitutes have been developed in the past but failed to absorb water to the extent that ivory does.

192. In the past, many governors who fell out with the Bermudians were put on a boat and sent back to London.

193. Since their interest in the past was primarily moralistic, precise knowledge of actual events and when they happened was not required.

194. So, if his tactics in October 1962 were perhaps more blatant than in the past,[] they were certainly far from unprecedented.

195. Weld has adopted an unusually low-key posture at this meeting in contrast to the high-profile figure he has cut in the past.

196. But, in fact, an enormous amount has been learned, particularly in the past ten years.

197. By conservative estimates, the agency has pared 2, 200 jobs in the past two years through attrition and early retirement.

198. Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Denis Waitley 

199. The beer market has doubled in the past four years.

200. All of the Dems have experience in the political arena and many have worked together in the past.

201. In the past, Livermore scientists studied those mini-explosions to better understand the physics of nuclear weapons blasts.

202. Other rip-offs in the past have centred on everything from gold bullion to currency trading.

203. Hemifacial spasm is not psychogenic as was commonly thought in the past, although it may be aggravated by emotional stress.

204. In the past, some countries refused to admit travelers who had South African visas.

205. In the past, one of the cornerstones of the economic argument for conservation was its value to tourism.

206. URLs are universal in that they provide access to a wide range of network services which required separate applications in the past.

207. People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other. Floyd Mayweather Jr. 

208. People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past. Nicholas Sparks 

209. In the past few years, marine biologists have observed a jump in whale sightings in places not previously considered prime habitat.

210. Attorneys have told the districts they must seek voter approval of existing fees imposed in the past without a public vote.

211. Four times in the past two years, the central bank has appointed administrators to small Czech banks with similar problems.

212. In the past year the first phase of the analysis of bus passenger casualties highlighted in the 1991 Plan has been undertaken.

213. Too many bright sparks have been lost to Britain in the past.

214. Headlines about local councils demolishing blocks of flats 10 years old or younger have become commonplace in the past four years.

215. In the past, the companies have said they bear no responsibility for the actions of dealers who sell guns.

216. But the next months will be very edgy on a peninsula that has gone over the brink in the past.

217. This will enable Mr Damant to calculate a better figure of maintainable earnings than has been possible in the past.

218. In the past, much of the work with flowing gases used photographic recording of electronic emission or absorption spectra.

219. In the past I'd seen a fair bit of Lloyd.

220. Two large asteroids have passed alarmingly close to Earth in the past few years.

221. Peat moorland, especially at low altitude, was used in the past for cultivation, normally potatoes but sometimes cereals.

222. Eight people have been charged under the article in the past six months; the maximum penalty is death.

223. No gas fields occur in the Bramsche and Vlotho Massifs, although in the past many boreholes have been drilled there.

224. In the past, these bonds have been issued primarily as a part of bankruptcy reorganization plans.

225. He wants me dead, of course, but there have been other targets in the past, like Thatcher and high-street butchers.

226. Maybe DWEMs received so much attention in the past because they deserved it.

227. In the past year or so they have launched major design and marketing efforts for factory automation systems.

228. Roughly half of those women abused as children had been abused in the past year.

229. Average birth rates for women in developing countries have fallen from six per woman to three in the past three decades.

230. This approach worked in the past, when the system administrator had to worry about a limited threat.

231. In the past, longer terms do not seem to have affected applications for places.

232. She's one of 27 pensioners living in the Aylesbury area who've been victims of distraction burglaries in the past year.

233. He did not mention the other proposed amendments, although in the past he has supported all but one.

234. Indeed, it is giving the impression of being much less ambitious and much more practical than in the past.

235. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense. Sarah Dessen 

236. They may have bad experiences from visiting prisons in the past.

237. Rich countries can afford to spend money on the environment, but few have made it a priority in the past.

238. In 1985 he had set up a consultancy firm which in the past year had advised the government on privatization.

239. We acknowledge that there have been dreadful mistakes and inexcusable mistreatment in the past, but we have learned from them.

240. In the past year, some companies have begun to offer free Internet access.

241. Adding depreciation accounting to the existing system has, in the past, not been affordable.

242. The new agreement with the Soviet Union is for one year, rather than five as in the past.

243. These issues have quickly moved on to the international agenda in the past few years, taking governments and industries by surprise.

244. Just in the past year, the party has banned dozens of books and closed numerous publishing houses.

245. Britain has made similar appeals to the court in the past but lost them.

246. First, the academic study of the concept has been profoundly transformed in the past twenty years or so.

247. In the past few days Mr Delors has signalled his determination to boost the executive powers held by Brussels.

248. In the past two decades, work on theoretical and practical aspects of artificial intelligence has stimulated our concepts of mind.

249. Well, maybe not quite as awesome as in the past.

250. In the past, local hotlines have to the best of their ability provided only a patchwork quilt of assistance.

251. There have been several cases in the past where it appeared people were acting out violent scenes from films.

252. Now that he's touring with a new band, Helm still opts to leave the past in the past.

253. It was not as though she had been slack in her church attendance in the past.

254. This, of course, was an age-old phenomenon, present in all materially advanced societies in the past.

255. The bishop has complained about commercialised money-making projects in the past.

256. Old stags and hinds and young calves numbers have not been cut as in the past by the cold climate.

257. In the past, to the horror of soccer purists, broadcasters have cut away from live action for commercial breaks.

258. Arabs have also been banned in the past, although perhaps not in so blatant a fashion as the Kaadans.

259. In the past, the discussion on the role of the state in public communication has been bedevilled by the East-West conflict.

260. In the past month, the Justice Department granted Disney a 12-month waiver when it approved the deal.

261. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha 

262. Even in the sciences it was thought in later antiquity that all wisdom lay in the past.

263. In the past, the family has opposed granting amnesty, demanding that offenders be prosecuted instead.

264. Overspent its athletic budget by $ 3. 1 million in the past five years.

265. In the past, many patients were accepted for bile acid treatment without specific, gall stone related symptoms.

266. Anson's abrasive personality has landed her in trouble many time in the past.

267. In the past, however, insufficient priority has been given to processing such applications.

268. In the past, pearl fishing was often carried out by travelling people who used a glass-bottomed bucket to locate them.

269. In the past six years there have been three asylum laws stiffening up procedures.

270. The highest closing price in the past year was 443p on April 6.

271. Only in the past two decades have educators and policy-makers begun to reexamine these assumptions seriously.

272. Border Patrol agents in Nogales say they have been shot at 21 times in the past 15 months.

273. Like Patterson and company in the past, he is being brought along for the experience.

274. All the companies surveyed have increased their intelligence-gathering budgets substantially in the past five years ....

275. In the past few years, they have found antibodies in 150 patients, Ludwig said.