Examples of using "Voorbije" in a sentence and their english translations:
I didn't get any sleep last night.
We haven't seen you in the past four years.
Last summer, I worked part time on the farm.
But something remarkable has happened over the past decade.
and that further evokes thoughts and memories of a past vacation,
I didn't sleep a wink last night.
We haven't seen you in the past four years.
Despite a flattering supposition to the contrary, people come readily to terms with power. There is little reason to think that the power of the great bankers, while they were assumed to have it, was much resented. But as the ghosts of numerous tyrants, from Julius Caesar to Benito Mussolini will testify, people are very hard on those who, having had power, lose it or are destroyed. Then anger at past arrogance is joined with contempt for the present weakness. The victim or his corpse is made to suffer all available indignities.