1.   Almost all the banks have been steadily trimming rates over the past couple of months to boost their Margins.

2.   And in the past couple of years, his storm chasers have been left with little to chase.

3.   BSo what happens when the disasters cease, as they have now for the past couple of years?

4.   Encouragingly the past couple of months have seen an upturn in measured revenues.

5.   I have seen this problem many times in the past couple of years when the summers have been very hot.

6.   In the past couple of Decades, Britain has managed to slither from one high technology debacle to another.

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

8.   The past couple of years have witnessed an explosion in the number of neural network articles appearing in computer magazines.

9.   The side has pulled off two excellent wins in the past couple of weeks.