Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last few hundred yards they trundled slowly behind a cab . |
| 2 | Botanically , oases contain only the alga-lichen-moss communities that would be expected in continental habitats relatively recently freed from ice ( i.e. during the last few thousand years ) , where water is scarce and winds are strong . |
| 3 | In the case of Mercury it is estimated that , just as is the case today ( Figure 8.2 ) , the slightly higher cratering rate than on the Moon has been a feature of the last few 1000 Ma . |
| 4 | Sgurr a' Mhaim was my 5Oth Munro , but as I hauled my dejected little body up the last few hundred feet , I was thinking only of rest , not triumph . |
| 5 | It has also been suggested that the Bond albedo was lower within the last few hundred years and that the atmosphere is still cooling as Jupiter adjusts to its new higher albedo . |
| 6 | It is a veritable relic from the past to be observed in a setting which has changed little in the last few hundred years , thus making the pervading atmosphere one of awesome pastoral antiquity . |
| 7 | Historically , world society has become a believable idea only in the last few hundred years , and science , technology , industry , and universal values are creating a twentieth century world that is different from any past age . |
| 8 | WELSH RUGBY was united for the first time in the last few stormy months when the 203 member clubs of the Welsh Rugby Union decided to sever playing links with South Africa last night . |
| 9 | These cover a large range of things , like the patient 's age , the patient 's sex , where the pain is , where it started , how quickly it came on , and so on and so forth , and essentially within the computer has a large table , and this table contains , how shall I put it , the frequency with which this particular symptom was associated with a particular disease over the last few hundred patients that have been seen at that hospital . |
| 10 | Soil erosion , run off , and soil movement downhill on the chalk uplands , together with solution of the chalk subsoil beneath , has resulted in major changes in soil quality and depth over the last few thousand years . |
| 11 | However , there is theoretical evidence that the Martian exposure to asteroids was higher over the last few 1000 Ma than in more recent times , which scales the ages down such that all but the more heavily cratered terrain is less than about 2000 Ma old . |