Sentence examples for devoted the past from inspiring English sources
An alumnus of Catholic University, Mr. Fogarty devoted the past twenty-four years to teaching Buckley boys.
An outspoken lawyer, Navalny has devoted the past few years to exposing corruption at Russian big state-owned companies, even posting fraudulent contracts on his blogs.
Cope, now 69, has devoted the past 30 years of his life to what amounts to an obsessive examination of that particular question.
He has devoted the past eight years of his life to hunting, collecting, and selling the fossilized teeth of the Megalodon, an immense species of prehistoric shark.
Hayes has devoted the past fifteen years to studying atrazine, and during that time scientists around the world have expanded on his findings, suggesting that the herbicide is associated with birth defects in humans as well as in animals.
An alumna of The Spence School, Wheelock College, Teacher's College, Columbia University and The Bank Street School of Education, Miss Bose devoted the past 21 years to teaching Buckley boys.
But rather than milking his fame he has devoted the past decade to producing a monumental study of the history of what he calls "political order".
She said that Mr. Chapman had devoted the past six months to hunting Mr. Luster, "and this is how he's repaid, by being thrown in a Mexican jail".
The Hutleys, says Nick Fiddian-Green, their son-in-law and – of course – an actor in the play, this year appearing as Balthazar, have devoted the past two decades of their lives to their Bible shows.
The French couple Fabienne and François Marchal have devoted the past 40 years to tracking down, buying and and restoring the often exquisitely sculptured rides from abandoned merry-go-rounds and other lost treasures of fairground art.
The Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad, currently exiled in Oxford, has devoted the past four years to identifying the families of the lesser-known victims and documenting details of their deaths through interviews with family and friends.
