Example sentences of "last few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he suddenly took ill and returned to Hollywood to undergo surgery for lung cancer , his son Christopher helped polish up some of the last few scenes . |
| 2 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 3 | This left Ambegate in front but he weakened up the hill and never-say-die Scudamore forced Vagog up in the last few strides . |
| 4 | Equation is seen , for instance , when we recognize a picture of someone we know ; and qualification was at work when a cave painter added the last few touches which made his bison look more energetic and more nearly alive than the others already on the rock face . |
| 5 | Taiwan is one of the most Westernised countries in this region , and our last few surveys have shown that we 're attracting an extensive local listenership now , covering an age-group ranging from mid-teens to late thirties , so we want to ditch a lingering perception that we exist solely for the benefit of non-nationals . |
| 6 | Erm they are Yorkshire and Humberside which I think is probably related to the strength of orders and demand in that region , East Midlands where they , where it 's sort of consistent with a trend erm in the last few surveys where they say that they have achieved modest price rises erm and where costs have not been falling , erm and also Wales . |
| 7 | Although she will in fact serve her last few shifts at the new community hospital at Treloar 's , it was her wish to hold her retirement party at Alton General Hospital before it closed . |
| 8 | As a final refinement , you will probably find that the last few frames of each shot on the copy assembly are over-recorded at the edits . |
| 9 | It was like watching someone else have that dream we all have : where we 're already late and we 've got to clear these last few things , but every time we try , something else gets in the way . |
| 10 | He wandered off to find Simon Franks and arrange a viewing of Nicola Sharpe 's last few reports . |
| 11 | Or did , ’ she qualified — the last few letters had n't mentioned him at all . |
| 12 | We 'll then drive the last few metres to the Colombi . |
| 13 | Jack stopped , listening again , and then ran the last few metres . |
| 14 | Corridors that sloped down more and more steeply , so that they had to sit and shuffle down the last few metres . |
| 15 | Oh , let there be someone around , she prayed silently , as she made the car fly the last few metres . |
| 16 | Those people who have kindly attended the last few forums will have noticed the dearth of students for whom the event was organised . |
| 17 | These last few bits are then specified by testing various conditions in the processor . |
| 18 | It meant that they had almost to stand on the air , flapping furiously , and then drop the last few inches . |
| 19 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
| 20 | I expect they wanted to watch the last few matches play the concluding holes . |
| 21 | Well , given the opposition in the last few matches they ve not done too bad . |
| 22 | I first started to go when they were getting promotion to the second division the last few matches in the third division . |
| 23 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 24 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 25 | What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for . |
| 26 | So I decided to draw a line across the book and finish the last few pages when I got back . |
| 27 | Only in the last few pages is cosmology mentioned explicitly , although Hubble was deeply interested in it . |
| 28 | The myth behind the song remains obscure in The Lord of the Rings , just as the Sindarin song of Rivendell remains untranslated , merging only with the Quenya one just quoted in the story 's last few pages ( III , 308 ) . |
| 29 | The word underlying these last few pages is ‘ thrift ’ . |
| 30 | Despite all the nuances we have introduced in the last few pages , there is no other way to put it . |