Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last few [noun pl] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is only in the last few weeks that news of Kevin 's death has reached American troops still in the Middle East . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the last few years several books have been written solely about carp fishing . |
| 6 | The structure of this is interesting as over the last few years most software house have added default actions , verbs or options to their interface — Sierra have almost taken the opposite course by simplifying their system which now has a basic choice of some half a dozen actions . |