Sentence examples of "past" in English

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It's twenty past six. Sono le sei e venti.

Everything was better in the past. Tutto era migliore nel passato.

We slept until half past 7. Abbiamo dormito fino alle 7 e mezza.

What happened belongs to the past. Quello che è successo appartiene al passato.

It’s a quarter past eight. Sono le otto e un quarto.

That's a thing of the past Questo è una cosa del passato

It is twenty minutes past ten. Sono le dieci e venti.

The tears of the past fertilize the future. Le lacrime del passato fecondano il futuro.

But it's almost half past eleven. Ma sono quasi le undici e mezza.

I don't know anything about his past. Non conosco nulla del suo passato.

We can record the past and present. Possiamo registrare il passato e il presente.

Old people look back on the past too much. Gli anziani riguardano troppo il passato.

It gets dark about half past five these days. Fa buio dopo le cinque e mezzo questi giorni.

In times of crisis one should never idealise the past. In tempo di crisi non bisogna idealizzare il passato.

My mother woke me up saying "It's a quarter past seven". Mia madre mi ha svegliato dicendo: “Sono le sette e un quarto”.

In the past it was thought the world was flat. In passato si pensava che il mondo fosse piatto.

I looked at my watch and noted that it was past five. Ho guardato il mio orologio e ho notato che erano le cinque passate.

Don't trust a man whose past you know nothing about. Non fidarti di un uomo di cui non sai nulla sul suo passato.

Difference between the past, present, and future is nothing but an extremely widespread illusion. La differenza tra passato, presente e futuro non è altro che una illusione estremamente diffusa.

Pleasure is always in the past or in the future, never in the present. Il piacere è sempre o passato o futuro, non mai presente.

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