Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] last few " in BNC.

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1 Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days .
2 Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days .
3 It is not surprising , therefore , that incomes have dropped severely during the last few years , with the result that we are now beginning to see signs of dereliction .
4 But after all , he had come far in the last few months .
5 Rain said : ‘ I found out during the last few days .
6 The Dorset , Devon and Cornwall holiday areas benefited from the good summer weather and from the upgrading of pubs carried out over the last few years .
7 The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery .
8 They seemed to have everything in command at Pickie on Saturday , but let the BLI come storming back over the last few ends to win on three of the four rinks .
9 It may have even done so within the last few centuries , though no one can know for sure .
10 Chris Smith , Labour 's Shadow Environment Secretary believed the country 's problem came not from the last few weeks , but the previous 13 years .
11 Although The Art Newspaper has written extensively during the last few months about the problems the international art trade will be facing in just over half a year from now , I nevertheless want to bring to your attention some other serious difficulties which the art market will have to confront , issues which are quite separate from the general economic malaise affecting business at the moment .
12 ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time .
13 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 .
14 A spokesman for the Northern Constabulary at Inverness denied the accusations of harassment but confirmed that the site had been visited twice in the last few days and that several people had been charged .
15 Now speaking to you , as chairman of the G M B parliamentary group I can tell you that we have met twice over the last few weeks on this issue of modernization and we are agreed on the need to avoid a damaging public row from which everybody yes including the unions , will lose .
16 Building society mortgage arrears have risen considerably in the last few years .
17 In fact events have developed rapidly in the last few weeks and it was announced at a Committee meeting on Monday 1st June that we had every hope of opening the museum by the end of the month .
18 This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements .
19 And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’
20 The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well .
21 And also I think we should record our admiration at how she has coped really over the last few years
22 An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time .
23 But in Latin America , even the crudest indicators such as per capita GNP , or gross national product ( which takes no account of wealth distribution ) show that people 's incomes have actually gone down in the last few years and their health , education and nutrition have gone down with them .
24 Such a change would set the final seal on what is perhaps the most radical transformation Japan has gone through in the last few decades : the disappearance of the farming community as a fundamental axis of politics , the economy and society and the emergence of Japan as a fully-fledged urban , industrial society .
25 What was erm how , how badly was the south by affected by the Japanese , I mean what were the peasants likely to have gone through in the last few years ?
26 This left Ambegate in front but he weakened up the hill and never-say-die Scudamore forced Vagog up in the last few strides .
27 He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life .
28 Just as the rewards for European golfers have increased dramatically over the last few years with a circuit worth nearly twenty million pounds , so have they for caddies .
29 Erm the emphasis really on that has been highlighted in the Department of Transport 's own recent consultation document earlier this year where they looked at er trans-pennine routes right from from Derbyshire up to the er the A sixty six er looking at ways to relieve the pressure on the M sixty two where traffic flows have been in have increased dramatically over the last few years .
30 Murrells spent ten years in the reserve , kept there for the last few years against his will because Mitchell considered him indispensable .
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