Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was much to do in the next few days . |
| 2 | As a result , Uzzell reckons that the market is likely to polarise over the next few years . |
| 3 | Are your needs likely to change over the next few years-will you have children to cope with ; are you likely to entertain more often than you do at present ? |
| 4 | However , the current situation is likely to change over the next few years , as major advances in technology take place . |
| 5 | The company should know what are the future consequences of its existing investments and commitments , and ought to be able to describe , at least in broad terms , some of the most probable scenarios it is likely to face during the next few years . |
| 6 | But an evolutionary decrease in the rate of ageing in humans is likely to occur over the next few generations . |
| 7 | Frankly , the only people I can think of who need to go as low as 850 calories a day in order to achieve a pacey weight loss on the F-Plan are small , rather sedentary women , only a few pounds overweight , and those struggling off the last few pounds of excess weight after a prolonged dieting campaign . |
| 8 | As a full stomach makes it even harder for a baby with RDS to breathe he was n't able to feed for the first few days and relied on the drip . |
| 9 | ‘ Just remember that and we might — just might — be able to get through the next few days without any major problems . ’ |
| 10 | And it was that kind of debate that that went on the last few years . |
| 11 | It 's due to arrive within the next few months , and is Windows without the need for DOS as a base upon which to work . |
| 12 | Troops moved in , and according to the military command , many areas of the West Bank are once more under curfew ; it is a ripple effect which will probable grow over the next few days . |
| 13 | For example , if a company has only a limited amount of funds available to spend over the next few years , centralised management would be able to take a balanced view of how the funds should be shared out between production , marketing , research and development , motor vehicles , other fixed asset purchases in different departments etc . |
| 14 | ( If they sound a little harassed , please bear in mind that they are new to the system and so may take a little longer to respond in the first few weeks of live running . ) |
| 15 | It ought to be possible to tell within the next few weeks whether the measures the government has introduced over the past year are delivering the hoped-for results . |
| 16 | The company is shy of discussing its product in any detail before its formal unveiling in the next few weeks . |