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Example Sentences

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We walk down the dimly lit hall past the empty classroom and the choir practice room.

From Literature

Lady Smith said the school's current leaders now recognised shortcomings at the school in past decades.

From BBC

In the past it has imposed tariffs, stopped buying or stopped exporting key products.

From BBC

That was the fourth straight quarterly bottom-line miss, and the eighth miss over the past nine quarters.

From MarketWatch

Here are four that kept me up past my bedtime.

From MarketWatch