Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | As communication between Chinese Christians and Christians from around the world has grown over the last few years , the need for a regular English language update of information on Church life in China at all levels has been expressed in many quarters . |
| 2 | ‘ I am delighted that they are doing so well in Darlington and that the company has expanded over the last few years . ’ |
| 3 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 4 | Fergie was not , strictly speaking , Diana 's type ; she was certainly not like her old friends , nor indeed many of the friends she has made in the last few years . |
| 5 | To maintain the advances that it has made in the last few years , Unix needs not only a ‘ viable ’ desktop environment , argues UI , but an attractively sized market for developers to aim at . |
| 6 | It will show you how far our technology has advanced in the last few years . |
| 7 | ‘ This means a colossal amount of ozone has disappeared in the last few weeks , ’ Bill Jeffries , New Zealand 's Minister in charge of the Meteorological Service , said yesterday . |
| 8 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 9 | Lafaille , a 26-years-old professional guide from Gap , has emerged in the last few years as a climber of unique all round ability . |
| 10 | Doctors were expected to decide in the next few hours whether Nicola would be allowed home today . |
| 11 | Unlike most manufactured goods , however , the real price of most services has increased over the last few decades . |
| 12 | One of the reasons why the range of special paints has diminished over the last few years is that ordinary paints and primers are so good . |
| 13 | Apart from the UK and Scandinavian countries , penetration is still low in Europe , but this is expected to change over the next few years as telecommunications markets are opened up . |
| 14 | Look what has happened in the last few days . |
| 15 | I have a high regard for Foresterhill and what it has achieved in the last few years under this Government . |
| 16 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 17 | The fresh , country look has evolved over the last few years as people have begun to paint wooden units and replace solid doors with glazed doors to create a lighter atmosphere . |
| 18 | In some areas the precise details of the ban coverage has changed over the last few years and climber are requested to check that they re aware of these updates . |
| 19 | Announcing the decision , Defence Under-Secretary Lord Cranbourne said : " The culture and climate has changed in the last few months … |
| 20 | Simon Griffiths , a hospital spokesman , said last night : ‘ Mrs Barnett 's general condition has improved over the last few hours and her liver is functioning well . ’ |
| 21 | The industry says that the figure should be almost 165,000 , and that more jobs are threatened to go in the next few months . |
| 22 | In addition , the ending of the Iran/Iraq conflict has meant that there is now more oil on world markets and the price of oil has tended to fall over the last few months . |
| 23 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 24 | ‘ I was just wondering how we were going to get through the next few hours . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't know what is going to happen in the next few weeks , but I know I 'm capable of getting right up there . ’ |
| 26 | The more what we might call trendy or eccentric or showy technique has tended to become in the last few years , the more I have felt I wanted to try and make films with as much simplicity and as much directness as possible . |
| 27 | RAIL fares are scheduled to soar in the next few years and at least 5,000 railway jobs will be lost following the Government 's decision to slash grants for British Rail in the early 1990s . |
| 28 | ‘ Anything could have happened over the last few days . ’ |
| 29 | Barring some abrupt turn in the diplomacy , the chances of fighting having begun in the next few weeks are high . |
| 30 | He did not expect domestic coal supplies to be insulated from world price trends — especially as government grants to the National Coal Board will have to rise over the next few years . |