Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last few [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last few weeks the baby inside her had been making itself felt . |
| 2 | He was n't yet quite in the Michael jackson class , but for the last few months the little boy had been difficult in the extreme . |
| 3 | For the last few years the sum has been £1 0 . |
| 4 | However , during the last few decades a further , more marked , decrease occurred from values around pH 6 to the present-day values of about pH 4.5 ( figure 4.8 ) . |
| 5 | During the last few years the Printing Division has been able to offer photosetting via its P.E . |
| 6 | During the last few years the notion of ‘ citizenship ’ has been increasingly and widely discussed amongst different constituencies addressing different aspects of the topic , with somewhat confusing consequences . |
| 7 | During the last few years the EMS has become a central plank of EC policy , and Economic and MOnetary Union has become the linchpin of the project for European Union constitutionalized in the Treaty on European Union . |
| 8 | During the last few years an increasing number of schools have adopted agreed policies for handwriting . |
| 9 | Within the last few years a small piece of wall has been restored and recapped to preserve the last few remains . |
| 10 | It may interest them that within the last few months the European parliament has agreed to press for a bill of rights for the citizens of Europe and for a written constitution for Europe . |
| 11 | In 1877 a book was published entitled Switzerland 's Development into a Unitary State , so the trend is long term ; yet in the last few decades the country has undergone large-scale centralisation . |
| 12 | In the last few decades the interest shown by social scientists in such evolutionary schemes has waned , notwithstanding the growing attention paid to problems of ‘ development ’ ; for the latter notion is not usually incorporated into any general conception of the history of human society , and despite first appearances is largely unhistorical . |
| 13 | In the last few weeks an obscure speed path that was constraining 40MHz yield was identified and stripped out . |
| 14 | In the last few years a powerful controversy has arisen over whether the dinosaurs as a whole were cold-blooded , like all living reptiles ( and there is no doubt that dinosaurs were reptiles ) , or warm-blooded , resembling mammals in this respect . |
| 15 | In the last few years a more objective method , based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised . |
| 16 | Both men are Christians , and in the last few years a number of other Christian writers have followed in their footsteps ( Hunter 1983 ; Guinness 1983 ; Williamson , Parotta et al 1983 ; Kolakowski 1986 ) . |
| 17 | It seems to me that we 're stronger fighting that together than apart and in the last few years a growing number of successful campaigns have strengthened this belief . |
| 18 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 19 | In the last few years the Conservative government has instituted a programme called ‘ Next Steps ’ . |
| 20 | In the last few years the volume of literature concerned with gender and mathematics has grown apace , both at home and abroad . |
| 21 | I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased . |
| 22 | Creggan hesitated to tell her but she seemed different from other vagrants he had met and in the last few days a trust had developed between them , so it seemed natural to say . |
| 23 | Yet in the last few days the Romanians have started underplaying the role of Timisoara in sparking off open opposition to Ceausescu , highlighting instead the undoubtedly fearless role of the citizens of Bucharest . |
| 24 | But in the last few days the food supplies from CARE alone have fed at least 150,000 people . |
| 25 | Managers should never be administrators Over the last few decades the distinction between leaders , managers and administrators has become increasingly blurred , to the detriment of profit and people alike . |
| 26 | Over the last few months the republic had been buoyed by waves of euphoria . |
| 27 | Over the last few weeks the villagers had noticed how his moods changed from wild despair to feverish excitement . |
| 28 | Over the last few years a breed of bouncer has evolved , a Rottweiler in a bow-tie , who likes doing serious harm to lippy young men . |
| 29 | However , it is that means that over the last few years every time we have actually debated about budget we recognised that the force had unwillingly and against the judgement of the majority of this council , not necessarily er bounded by political affiliation , we have to be getting down further and further towards the completely inaccurate expanded spending assessment that is assessed as necessary for the needs of this city by the department of the environment . |
| 30 | Over the last few years the house has changed hands many times . |