The past can only be known, not changed. The future can only be changed, not known.

Air quality has deteriorated these past few years.

Danger past, God forgotten.

My financial worries are past.

On my way home, I fell asleep on the train and rode past my station.

The danger past and God forgotten.

Each generation would have to rediscover for itself the truths of the past.

If we are to judge the future of ocean study by its past, we can surely look forward to many exciting discoveries.

The church we went past crumbled five minutes afterwards due to a huge earthquake and more than a 100 churchgoers were buried alive.

In a past-oriented society, people dwell on the past and on tradition.

We can record the past and present.

It is considered impossible to travel back to the past.

We can know the past, but the future we can only feel.

Don't dwell on your past mistakes!

Don't dwell on your past failures.

Don't grieve about your past errors.

My past indiscretions are coming back to haunt me.

Don't worry about the past.

In the past, Fletcher Fuel was approached by Japanese companies.

You must live in the present, not in the past.

Women had little choice in the past.

In the past, the old used to be looked upon as experts in solving various problems of life.

Our policy is to build for the future, not the past.

I couldn't run from the past.

Although CFIT accounted for just over a third of crashes in the past six years, it caused 53% of the deaths.

Prices have risen by 50 percent during the past ten years.

Don't look back on your past.

They say you should consult the past if you want to learn about the future. History has a lot to teach us.

The rain has lasted for the past two days.

In the past, there were no oral English classes in high school. Now many schools have oral communication classes.

All of us are connected with the past and the future as well as the present.

Past the west coasts of Europe and Africa to the tip of southern Africa.

Finally, I have time to reply to the mail that I have received these past three weeks.

It is already past five o'clock.

It's already past ten o'clock.

Mountain bike racing has caught on with young Japanese in the past few years.

The company's analysis shows that in over 60% of all accidents in the past ten years, the behavior of the flight crew was the dominant cause.

Freddy's been working the graveyard shift the past month, so he hasn't been able to see any of his friends who work normal hours.

A policeman ran past.

The bus went past the bus stop.

Nothing will make up for his past mistakes.

He seems to know all about her past.

But it's almost half past eleven.

Excuse me, could I get past?

It is just half past seven.

I would keep waiting for you if I had to stay awake past midnight.

That will help revive a fashion of the past.

It happened at a quarter past eleven.

And so, knowledge from the past, mixed up with assumptions about that knowledge, which may be more or less appropriate, is used to augment information provided by the senses.

The girl brushed past me.

The industry has seen many booms and busts in the past.

The aristocrat clings to the glory of his past.

The time when such things could happen is past.

Jane used to be one of my best friends at school but we've drifted apart over the past few years.

Jane will never forget this past year. Neither will we.

In the past I used to vote for the Democratic ticket, but from now on I'll climb on the Republican bandwagon.

In the past I used to vote the Democratic ticket, but from now on I'll climb on the Republicans' bandwagon.

This has been the trend for the past twenty years.

This list is inclusive of the past members of the group.

I hear this is the coldest winter we have had in the past ten years.

This car has been used for the past ten years.

These songs remind me of the happy memories of past days.

I've been so busy this past week that I've hardly had time to relax.

It gets dark about half past five these days.

Prices have been stable for the past three years.

I have eaten nothing for the past three days.

It has kept raining for the past three days.

I have been as busy as a bee for the past two months.

In the course of the past year, prices have doubled.

In the past month, three houses, all in good condition, have been torn down.

We've had all kinds of weather over the past few days.

It's been overcast for the past few days.

For the past few days Jane has been quiet and out of humor.

Her health has been declining these past months.

We've been having strange weather the past few years.

There hasn't been any rain for the past three months.

Times have been bad these past few years.

During the past several years, many Japanese have been either killed or injured while traveling overseas.

We haven't seen you in the past four years.

I must have gone past the station while I was taking a nap.

I went past my stop absent-mindedly.

How long are you going to keep whimpering about that? You can't change the past.

America's foreign debt shot past $500 billion.

In the United States, 20 million new jobs have been created during the past two decades, most of them in the service sector.

He will soon be past playing with toys.

You've made remarkable progress in English in the past year.

It's a quarter past nine.

As it was past 8 p.m. we called it a day.

See you a little past 7.

It's almost half past eleven.

It is twenty minutes past ten.

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The troops marched past.

Don't trust a man whose past you know nothing about.

The police looked into his past record.

The police were inquiring into the suspect's past.

By means of monthly payments, people can purchase more than in the past.

I've never been there, but I think it's past that traffic light.

There is much more water in this lake now than in the past.

Once again, Mrs. Lee speaks fondly of the past, and it is impossible to stop her.

Lately I see a lot of parents getting divorced. I wonder if the idea of kids being a bond between their parents is just a thing of the past.