Sentence examples for not in the past from inspiring English sources

We live in the present, not in the past.

"Not in the past 30 years, but 100 years.

"D.C. has not in the past fared too well.

'Not in the past few years.' Tim ignores him.

Why did you choose to write this in the future and not in the past?

The obvious answer is that they are not in the past.

Non-communicable diseases such as cancer have not, in the past, been seen as a priority.

"It's time for the country to invest in the future, not in the past.

We have to allow for greater flexibility in our programs, which we have not in the past.

"It's a kind of new dimension that was not in the past," said Madalena Patricio, the organization's president.

It's funny (but, then again, not): in the past, homosexuals were denounced as sexual libertines who brazenly flouted society's norms.