Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] last few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the engagements are abroad , I work feverishly in the last few days and nights to create a reasonably finished piece of work — just in case we crash . |
| 2 | Only in the last few pages is cosmology mentioned explicitly , although Hubble was deeply interested in it . |
| 3 | Only in the last few months of his pontificate , before his promotion to York , did Bothe recognize the duke 's local interests by appointing ducal servants to office within the bishopric , not only at Crayke ( which lay within the duke 's sphere of influence in the forest of Galtres ) , but within County Durham itself , where Gloucester 's retainer John Redmane was made bailiff of Bishop Auckland . |
| 4 | Only in the last few months of his pontificate , before his promotion to York , did Bothe recognize the duke 's local interests by appointing ducal servants to office within the bishopric , not only at Crayke ( which lay within the duke 's sphere of influence in the forest of Galtres ) , but within County Durham itself , where Gloucester 's retainer John Redmane was made bailiff of Bishop Auckland . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But it is only in the last few weeks that news of Kevin 's death has reached American troops still in the Middle East . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Its origins are disguised by its huge cob , and only in the last few years has genetic analysis teased out the whole truth about its humble cereal ancestry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Only in the last few years have real efforts been made to equalize provision for different groups of the disabled and there is still a long way to go before we can claim to have adequate social security in this area . |
| 12 | It is only in the last few years , then , that new IT , mainly in the form of the microcomputer , has started to play a part in formal education . |
| 13 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 14 | But in Latin America , even the crudest indicators such as per capita GNP , or gross national product ( which takes no account of wealth distribution ) show that people 's incomes have actually gone down in the last few years and their health , education and nutrition have gone down with them . |
| 15 | Such a change would set the final seal on what is perhaps the most radical transformation Japan has gone through in the last few decades : the disappearance of the farming community as a fundamental axis of politics , the economy and society and the emergence of Japan as a fully-fledged urban , industrial society . |
| 16 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |
| 17 | What we 've been through in the last few years has brought us a lot closer , and that 's part of the reason I 'm getting out of the rat race of international cricket … certainly for a few years , anyway . |
| 18 | What was erm how , how badly was the south by affected by the Japanese , I mean what were the peasants likely to have gone through in the last few years ? |
| 19 | And I think it 's both important for N C V O itself , to ensure that it 's working on issues , equal opportunities issues that affect itself , and that it 's helping the sector as a whole to do that , and and we 're very conscious of that , and er , certainly just in the last few weeks , have been looking at how we can upgrade what we 're doing in that sphere . |
| 20 | In fact events have developed rapidly in the last few weeks and it was announced at a Committee meeting on Monday 1st June that we had every hope of opening the museum by the end of the month . |
| 21 | But things have turned round slightly in the last few weeks and erm the players have got themselves together and erm we 've managed to string a few results together . |
| 22 | This left Ambegate in front but he weakened up the hill and never-say-die Scudamore forced Vagog up in the last few strides . |
| 23 | Entries are flowing in — a limit of 2000 has been set — but Malcolm Barham , of the race organisers , says things generally hot up in the last few days before the closing date , which is April 10 . |
| 24 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 25 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
| 26 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 27 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 28 | What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for . |
| 29 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 30 | But after all , he had come far in the last few months . |