Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last few [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 2 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 3 | For the last few years Pinfield had been based with the Langham Group , a somewhat elitist special projects body under Anthony Pellisier charged with producing very experimental forms of drama — using techniques like inlay , overlay and split screening ; for example , matting caption slide backgrounds over black drape stages . |
| 4 | For the last few years Weir has been one of the most consistent performers of any quoted Scottish company , with a steady improvement in sales and profits . |
| 5 | During the last few minutes Hazel had been as near to losing his head as he was ever to come . |
| 6 | Leeds get stuck in though and in the last few minutes Newsome gets the goal to go 3–2 , do n't ask me what it was the whole match was so exciting I forgot everything ! |
| 7 | In the last few weeks loads of newt tadpoles have hatched . |
| 8 | In the last few weeks UI has lost Yumio Imamura , general manager of Asia Pacific in Tokyo , Roger Fraumann , director of Australia/New Zealand in Sydney , Lane Weggeland , vice president of business operations , Tony D'Annunzio , vice president of technology , Jack Bissel , technical projects manager , Steve Payne , director of communications , Dave Whitson , marketing manager , Andy Freeman , recruiting , Rhoda Ames , executive assistant and Diane Varga , product sales . |
| 9 | As Mr Gladstone has pointed out , in the last few years progress has been far more rapid because improved education has created in all classes of the community an increased desire and appetite for literature which did not formerly exist , and that can only be supplied by means of such public libraries in which we are now met . |
| 10 | But in the last few years feminists have begun to organise together as architects , housing workers , builders , designers etc , to question seriously assumptions around housing policy and structure ; assumptions held not only by politicians , housing officials and housing workers , but also by socialist housing activists . |
| 11 | Over the last few months SCOTVEC and the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) have collaborated to produce a joint statement , the main feature of which is an agreement that SVQs and NVQs are compatible in their essential features and that there will be mutual recognition of these throughout the UK . |
| 12 | Over the last few years work has been carried out on using machine readable dictionaries as a source of linguistic knowledge ( Amsler , 1981 ) , ( Boguraev & Briscoe , 1987 ) — thereby enabling the production of a large vocabulary lexicon for considerably less effort than was previously required . |