| recent past | 23.83 | The intact antiquities of the recent past, | ||
| distant past | 7.04 | I do remember now in the distant past. | ||
| communist past | 4.87 | He has largely succeeded in burying his own communist past. | ||
| nazi past | 3.82 | He is accused of hiding his Nazi past to gain entry to Canada. | ||
| criminal past | 3.49 | Dykens had a criminal past. | ||
| soviet past | 3.03 | But Russia has never fully grappled with its Soviet past. | ||
| colonial past | 2.11 | In Zimbabwe, he said, he was aware of its colonial past. | ||
| painful past | 2.11 | Tom Watson tried to bury a painful past. | ||
| violent past | 2.04 | He has told her about his violent past. | ||
| glorious past | 1.97 | They have a glorious past. | ||
| immediate past | 1.45 | And forget the immediate past. | ||
| dark past | 1.32 | A memory of a glorious moment in a dark past. | ||
| ancient past | 1.05 | The answer lies in the ancient past. | ||
| political past | 0.99 | He has no party and no political past. | ||
| ugly past | 0.99 | But it did not celebrate the bloodshed of an ugly past. | ||
| american past | 0.92 | Like most such figures, Buchanan draws from powerful impulses in the American past. | ||
| brutal past | 0.92 | The West has a brutal past in Congo. | ||
| troubled past | 0.92 | Both had come from troubled pasts. | ||
| colorful past | 0.86 | Fray has a colorful past. | ||
| authoritarian past | 0.79 | Some vestiges of an authoritarian past remain. |