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| | |chapter=7|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2004261W | | |chapter=7|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2004261W |
| | |passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of '''past''' cultures.}} | | |passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of '''past''' cultures.}} |
| − | #: {{usex|past glories}} | + | #: {{usex|lang=en|'''past''' glories}} |
| | # {{context|postmodifier|lang=en}} Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; [[ago]]. {{defdate|from 15th c.}} | | # {{context|postmodifier|lang=en}} Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; [[ago]]. {{defdate|from 15th c.}} |
| | #* '''1999''', {{w|George RR Martin}}, ''A Clash of Kings'', Bantam 2011, p. 538: | | #* '''1999''', {{w|George RR Martin}}, ''A Clash of Kings'', Bantam 2011, p. 538: |
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| | #*: Some four decades '''past''', as a boy, I had a chance encounter and conversation with the late W.A. Poucher [...]. | | #*: Some four decades '''past''', as a boy, I had a chance encounter and conversation with the late W.A. Poucher [...]. |
| | # Of a period of time: having just gone by; [[previous]]. {{defdate|from 15th c.}} | | # Of a period of time: having just gone by; [[previous]]. {{defdate|from 15th c.}} |
| − | #: {{usex|during the past year}} | |
| | #* {{quote-news|year=2012|date=April 23|work={{w|The Guardian}}|author=Angelique Chrisafis | | #* {{quote-news|year=2012|date=April 23|work={{w|The Guardian}}|author=Angelique Chrisafis |
| | |title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election | | |title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election |
| | |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/23/francois-hollande-french-election | | |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/23/francois-hollande-french-election |
| | |passage=Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure. It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the '''past''' 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.}} | | |passage=Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure. It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the '''past''' 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.}} |
| | + | #: {{usex|lang=en|during the '''past''' year}} |
| | # {{context|grammar|lang=en}} Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state. {{defdate|from 18th c.}} | | # {{context|grammar|lang=en}} Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state. {{defdate|from 18th c.}} |
| − | #: {{usex|past tense}} | + | #: {{usex|lang=en|'''past''' tense}} |
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| | ====Translations==== | | ====Translations==== |
