Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last few [noun pl] that " in BNC.

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1 We 've just heard in the last few minutes that the application for that hotel to be listed has been turned down .
2 At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed .
3 It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre .
4 Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details .
5 And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better .
6 Such has been the rate of change in the last few years that the 1981 Census has become woefully outdated .
7 He had heard ( and drunk ) so much in the last few days that his mind was a haze of impressions and conjectures which refused to sort themselves out or lead in any one direction .
8 Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed .
9 His job had turned into such a jest over the last few weeks that the thought of putting on his uniform , that humiliatingly naval-looking , obviously non-sea-going uniform , made him stiff with bashfulness .
10 It had become increasingly clear over the last few days that the anger of East Germans is focused on the Communist Party and that it can only be a question of time before the party has to relinquish its leading role and allow political competition .
11 I hope and pray that you will win — God willing , you will because you have all the ability in the world — but I have discovered over the last few days that there are people prepared to go to great lengths to stop you .
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