Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 2 | I think you 'd better work with me for the next few days , or if I 'm not here , then with one of my staff nurses . |
| 3 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 4 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 5 | Steinmark was still absent and he , Nordern , was doing two men 's work which annoyed him , particularly as he wanted to give the best possible impression of himself during the next few weeks . |
| 6 | Usually it was a relief to be free of those gentle and accusing ghosts , which in the last few months had visited her less often . |
| 7 | It covers much new material , including letters which have never before been published , a number of long lost works which in the past few years have resurfaced from museum storerooms in the former Soviet Union , and works newly discovered in international private collections . |
| 8 | An action followed which in the next few years captured many of those leaders with a superior ideology . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
| 10 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 11 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |
| 12 | Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith . |
| 13 | The innuendo in this remark proved too much for the petite figure in the front row , who during the last few words was showing signs of unmistakable distress . |
| 14 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 15 | Medication is not always the right resource in times of distress , but there are certain situations that are so terrible that you will need something to help you through the first few months . |
| 16 | We can supply them from stock and shall be despatching them to you within the next few days . |
| 17 | Mr Rich will contact you within the next few days . |
| 18 | It was doubly ironic for Coventry who in the previous few minutes had attacked with more conviction than at any time throughout the game . |
| 19 | Who in the last few weeks purchased this poison ? ’ |
| 20 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 21 | If I do n't manage to contact you in the next few days , I 'll still send these questionnaires in the hope of a splendidly useful response . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've learned a lot about you in the past few days . |
| 23 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
| 24 | I had it on my schedule to see quite a lot of you over the next few weeks , Folly . |
| 25 | I will probably contact many of you over the next few months to try to establish the working conditions in various areas and develop future strategies accordingly . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’ |
| 27 | In the town itself over the next few years Class meetings were formed in West Street , Corcrain , Edenderry , Levaghery , Lisniskey and Kernan . |
| 28 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 29 | The subject of travel concessions has been a controversial one for the last few months . |
| 30 | Something like the last few sentences must however have been at least a part of Tolkien 's intention . |