Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should make sure that you are adequately covered from the start , because the likelihood of a dog running away from home is probably greatest during the first few months of ownership . |
| 2 | Sabrina opened the top file and leafed through the first few invoices . |
| 3 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 4 | He had become used to much worse than that during the past few weeks . |
| 5 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 6 | But the shock left me nervous and depressed for the next few days . |
| 7 | It was a matter of time , most steps had been taken , ‘ We are leaving St-Jean to avoid talk ; we shall have to be reasonably discreet for the next few months or so . ’ |
| 8 | Tony said he had felt happier after discharge from hospital and that his father had been less critical and more supportive during the last few days . |
| 9 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 10 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 11 | I 'll be keeping this for the next few days with me looking after it . |
| 12 | But when he suddenly took ill and returned to Hollywood to undergo surgery for lung cancer , his son Christopher helped polish up some of the last few scenes . |
| 13 | are easing now and er should be clear in the next few minutes , due to the accident having been cleared from the carriageway . |
| 14 | How he will now speak of the methods used last weekend by the security services could become clear in the next few days . |
| 15 | It had been made clear in the last few days , he said , with low-paid workers in North Ayrshire having their wages cut to join a trust while senior managers at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh awarded themselves BMW cars . |
| 16 | It had become increasingly claustrophobic in the last few weeks . |
| 17 | Staff turnover has been high in the last few years as school closure has loomed closer . |
| 18 | Three other people had also said they were interested in the last few days . |
| 19 | The island 's isolation and woodsy beauty have made it wildly popular in the past few years ; prices for many single homes have jumped above $300,000 . |
| 20 | Now of course , some people might say well the Iranians er have n't covered themselves with glory one way and another in the last few years , and that of course , is true . |
| 21 | It would not surprise us to see something like this over the next few months . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As reports from the Select Committee on Defence have made clear over the past few years , defence cuts are proceeding at such a pace that , if a future Labour Government continued in the same way , we would be left with Securicor and Group 4 to defend our shores and a steamship company to provide us with a substitute for the Royal Navy . |
| 24 | The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days . |
| 25 | Each of the next few slides has the same format . |
| 26 | While this growth is less spectacular than that of the past few years , the cumulative impact is significant . |
| 27 | In fact she had been feeling tired and queasy for the past few days ; and that night , when the leading man laid her on the sofa , suddenly turned her head and , without letting the audience see , vomited quietly down the sofa back . |
| 28 | Scotland must take their chances in London against a side that has been the most consistent for the last few years if they are to come away with the spoils of victory . |
| 29 | Longevity seems set for the next few years , at least , to have , at best , a sharply reduced economic value . |
| 30 | She must take it easy for the next few days . |