Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the 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 Rain said : ‘ I found out during the last few days .
4 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 .
5 The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery .
6 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 .
7 ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’
11 The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 ?
16 This left Ambegate in front but he weakened up the hill and never-say-die Scudamore forced Vagog up in the last few strides .
17 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 .
18 Okay finally , a third m major er class of ion channel i which has been extensively worked on over the last few years , since the advent of patch clamping er has been second messenger gated channels , so-called second messenger gated channels .
19 This is our first effort at a full newsletter and we now really appreciate how much effort Lynn has put in over the last few years .
20 But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years .
21 Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over .
22 We were glad enough that the weather seemed set fair for the remainder of our voyage and next morning set off on the last few miles of our northerly course to round the utmost tip of Shetland .
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