Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last few [noun pl] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | During the last few years an increasing number of schools have adopted agreed policies for handwriting . |
| 3 | Within the last few years a small piece of wall has been restored and recapped to preserve the last few remains . |
| 4 | In the last few weeks an obscure speed path that was constraining 40MHz yield was identified and stripped out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the last few years a more objective method , based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |