The Pakistani military has been proposing an operation in South Waziristan for the past several months.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

We did have a large,short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.

我们确实曾持有很多,次级抵押担保证券的空头,它们为耶鲁赚了不少钱,并且在过去的9个月或1年间,为资产保值发挥了实在的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I think for the past three months, I've only had five or six hours of sleep at night.

我觉得在过去三个月里，每晚我就睡5到6个小时。

I need 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Incidents of Somali piracy has waned in the past few months as monsoon season has made the offshore waters more dangerous for the opportunistic gangs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

Yeah, we've been student teaching for the past couple of months.

教过，过去几个月我一直在教学生。

我的梦想是当教师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

What grew as the pet project of Mark Zuckerberg, when he was a student at Harvard,has exploded - gaining eight new users ever second for the past 15 months.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Damascus has steadfastly denied the charges. Hilal Kashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, thinks that the Hezbollah-led opposition scored a big victory with the general's release and could win the parliamentary elections because of it:"The opposition is using the release of the 4 senior officers as a moral victory, and says for the past 3 years and 8 months, four officers were jailed for no reason, whatsoever and they are coming hard on the Lebanese legal system and the process the Lebanese government, and they say this is the beginning,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.30