past weekend
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpastandweekend
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past
adjective
uk/pɑːst/us/pæst/
used to refer to a period of time before and until ...
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weekend
noun[C]
uk/ˌwiːkˈend/us/ˈwiːk.end/
Saturday and Sunday, or Friday evening until Sunday night; the part of the week in which many people living in the West do not go ...
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(Definition ofpastandweekendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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During thepastweekend, one lost his life.
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I had considerable evidence of that during thepastweekend.
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I think that officials have been treated unfairly over thepastweekend.
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What follows the events of thepastweekendis in the hands of the people.
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Nothing can excuse the violence and destruction that has occurred over thepastweekend.
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The events of thepastweekendare reassuring.
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We were doing that before thepastweekend.
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Members of the women's campaign against pit closures came to see me thispastweekend.
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I also pay tribute not only to the services but to individuals who made considerable efforts over thepastweekendto overcome the severe weather.
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Thispastweekendillustrates that.
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It was known in advance that two attempts at marches were to be made during thepastweekend.
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The events of thepastweekendhave placed the travel trade and its major organisation at the cross roads.
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I, too, salute the work of the mayor and others who sustained him during thepastweekend.
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We have heard much in thepastweekend, if not before, about the concept of the mandate.
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One wonders whether that is part of the reason why our rugby teams, particularly over thepastweekend, have not been doing brilliantly in international terms.
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So there have been successes; the events of thepastweekend, however, show just how much work there is still left to do.
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The area that has been cut away was flooded—the sea broke into it during the stormy weather of thepastweekend.
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That has meant that some of us have had considerable difficulty in dealing with them over the past weekends.
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The group regularly climbed on the weekends and met in the week to discuss the past weekends climbs and plan their future trips.
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