Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] in the [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
| 3 | And the big , one of the big things that affected us in the last few years was er Dallas . |
| 4 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 5 | Do n't overdo it in the first few days . |
| 6 | SUPPOSE you have a print by Picasso , Dali , Miro or Chagall , or sold one in the past few years : you have a special interest in a Brooklyn courtroom this week . |
| 7 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 8 | An action followed which in the next few years captured many of those leaders with a superior ideology . |
| 9 | If I do n't manage to contact you in the next few days , I 'll still send these questionnaires in the hope of a splendidly useful response . |
| 10 | Causes of change are many — the government , the unions , OPEC , the Argentines , company mergers , new brooms , technological change , recession , unemployment , legislation , EEC — you name it , you 've experienced it in the last few years . |
| 11 | This last item did much to restore the confidence that seemed to have deserted me in the previous few months . |
| 12 | Mr Colman if I might add that re- orientation has brought with it the need to change our pricing strategy and therefore rather than going package by package right through the whole thirty four , we 're actually trying initially on the engines to go in one bang to price everything on the engines and do it in the next few months . |