Example sentences of "[prep] the last few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last few days of her life Julia lay in a drugged sleep , free from pain and still managing a faint smile for Pat as he hung over her , gripping her hand . |
| 2 | Sleep-drugged figures stumble quietly around their bivouacs , feeling for the last few items of rain-sodden kit to stow in their bergens . |
| 3 | He was so depressed , poor boy , at falling in the first place — all Langleys ride as if they were born to it — and then at not being able to return to Cambridge for the last few weeks of term , and his aunt was quite at her wit 's end to know what to do with him . |
| 4 | If a girl is lucky and her parents are alive , she goes to her mother 's house for the last few months of her pregnancy and about the first three months of the baby 's life . |
| 5 | She died in 1850 , having been allowed to leave the convent for the last few months of her life to be nursed by her sisters . |
| 6 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 7 | Cutting down on your drinking , even during the last few months of your pregnancy , will help your baby to be healthy at birth . |
| 8 | That their father 's death must be a relief to her elder sister was obvious , for Major O'Brien had been hopelessly paralysed for years , and during the last few months of his life had been unable to speak . |
| 9 | During the last few weeks of Little Stonham Primary School 's history a book fair was held . |
| 10 | Additionally , during the last few weeks of 1992 , Louis Vuitton sales showed a significant improvement . |
| 11 | Mares with a tendency to filled legs will suffer more when in foal , particularly during the last few weeks of pregnancy . |
| 12 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 13 | Mary Ann was blind during the last few years of her life , and it had the quite understandable effect of making her very emotional ; she only had one set of grandchildren , and she made such a fuss of them : ‘ My Siddy ’ , she would say , as she stroked her young grandson 's cheek with tears in her eyes . |
| 14 | There was something approaching a ‘ moral panic ’ taking place in China during the last few years of the reform decade , exacerbated by the ‘ falling in love craze ’ and some of its unhealthy results . |
| 15 | Again I was personally involved because I was one of White Waltham 's Commanding Officers during the last few years of my Service career . |
| 16 | These drawings were always made between the last few days of August and the end of October . |
| 17 | What you will think of it , I suspect , depends on your zodiac sign or whether you blubbed through the last few minutes of Peter Weir 's Dead Poets Society . |
| 18 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They were relaxed , joking amongst themselves ; it was a relief to be on a march where they did n't expect trouble after the last few weeks of demonstrations and violence . |
| 21 | Add some flour with the last few additions of egg to prevent curdling . |
| 22 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
| 23 | I have just read the article on the Cessna 172 in the July Pilot and I quote — spasmodically — from the last few paragraphs of p22 : |
| 24 | With the crews overlapping until the last few minutes of the 4¼-mile race , it had been a gruelling test for all . |
| 25 | They met several times more up to 1985 , but seem to have remained in touch until the last few months of Ceauşescu 's rule . |
| 26 | ‘ Nothing further came from the ring until the last few weeks of the war . |
| 27 | For travellers to the United States in the last few decades of the nineteenth century the immigrants to be seen at stations in the West , particularly in Omaha , were one of the most striking images of their visits . |
| 28 | In the last few minutes of the Committee stage we had an interesting debate when the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) defended what had happened . |
| 29 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 30 | Ballater , in the last few minutes of his visit , praised his performance as a pianist and the atmosphere became more cordial . |