Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] few [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beeney was great and I do n't see how he can fail to be selected for the next few games short of leg amputation ( and even then … ) |
| 2 | So for the next few days this column will present several different ways of assessing corporate performance for 1989 . |
| 3 | For the next few years American audiences were shown aspects of their society that they could never have expected to have encountered at the movies and it must have struck at least some members of the public that film-going had become a more serious business . |
| 4 | During the next few months further SABRE phases will bring valuable advantages to the company and our customers by increasing the freshness and availability of products . |
| 5 | During the next few years many alternative possibilities for compost making will be tried with varying degrees of success , and gardeners will be at the forefront of this revolution . |
| 6 | During the next few weeks three armies were assembled , forming a pattern of defence in depth . |
| 7 | The proportion saying they decided ‘ during the last few days ’ is nearly one in seven of all who voted on Thursday , and double the 1987 figure : 198319871992 Decided a long time ago788173 Two or three weeks ago141213 During the last few days 8 714 |
| 8 | Within the last few years thousands of Goans have gone to work in the Gulf states . |
| 9 | In the next few years all of England 's maritime energies were concentrated on resisting Philip of Spain 's attempt at invasion , and by the time one of Raleigh 's associates was able to visit the colony again in 1590 it had disappeared . |
| 10 | In the next few years many clinical experiments established the effective use of drugs to suppress immune responses . |
| 11 | The basic chemical structure common to promethazine and chlorpromazine provided a good basis from which to begin the search for compounds which were better than chlorpromazine , and in the next few years many came into clinical use . |
| 12 | Maybe in the next few years these projects will come to fruition and achieve the hoped-for and much-needed improvements in the city of Funchal . |
| 13 | I would welcome a debate , but in the next few weeks many issues have to be fitted into the timetable , not least progress on Government legislation . |
| 14 | In the next few weeks many people will be coming to class for the first time . |
| 15 | In the past few weeks plain English drafting and the typography of statutes have again become the subject of public comment in the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | Yet in the past few years long term nursing care beds in the NHS have been progressively reduced and district health authorities have made little effort to improve their remaining accommodation . |
| 17 | In the past few years many disparate organisations have appealed to industry to improve information dissemination about R&D . |
| 18 | However , in the past few years such a model of enacting legislation after a wide-ranging commission that hears evidence from professionals in the field has not been followed . |
| 19 | In the past few years two academic posts have had to be frozen to keep the photographic collection and library funded . |
| 20 | In the past few years major corporations such as BP , BT , the Post Office and IBM have cut out huge swathes of middle management to produce leaner , more competitive organisations . |
| 21 | In the past few years alone millions of dollars have been invested in North America , Europe and Australia . |
| 22 | ‘ In the last few minutes one of the party of missing students — ’ Kath let out her breath on a gust ‘ — has made his way to the surface , and he has told us that there are still two men trapped below here , ’ he announced in the earnest voice of sepulchral doom so favoured by reporters at the scene of an incident . |
| 23 | But it is only in the last few weeks that news of Kevin 's death has reached American troops still in the Middle East . |
| 24 | The , in the last few months alone , we 've also had visits to Brussels by the General Secretary , the Deputy General Secretary , a number of Regional Secretaries , political officers , training officers and others . |
| 25 | For those of you that do n't know can I remind you that in the last few years one million pounds of capital was spent on Moat Centre alone on the cost together the moment of running Moat Centre for Highfield 's youth is five hundred thousand a year . |
| 26 | In the last few years many policy analysts , professional organizations , charitable bodies and government-funded bodies have made recommendations on how the NHS and local authority structures should be changed in order to develop community care more effectively . |
| 27 | In the last few years these problems have also been intensified by the housing changes described in chapter 7 , namely the accelerated contraction of the private-rented sector , the winding up of New Town Development Corporations and other official overspill schemes , the cutback in Treasury funds for new public-sector house-building in general , and the sale of council houses to tenants with ‘ Right To Buy ’ discounts ( Brittan , 1986 ) . |
| 28 | In the last few years this pattern has ceased as most papers carry these reports and , curiously , the News of the World has nearly stopped . |
| 29 | In the last few years several books have been written solely about carp fishing . |
| 30 | Threatening phone bills are quite common in this house , but in the last few days abusive calls have become popular , with an unknown voice offering to dismember certain of my vital organs unless I quit the manager 's job . |