Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] [adj] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim concluded gloomily that in his view we should go on sliding downhill for the next few years . |
| 2 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 3 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 4 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
| 5 | I have n't noticed Reg writing much for the past few minutes , though . |
| 6 | We could do the same , but every piece of music must have its own shape , and many composers introduce new material at this point , even if only for a brief few bars . |
| 7 | only for the first few days |
| 8 | Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep . |
| 9 | Russia 's debt problems were highlighted in a World Bank study released in late September which indicated that the country would need some US$20,000 million of external financial resources annually for the next few years to sustain economic reforms . |
| 10 | LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed . |
| 11 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 12 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 13 | So for the next few months she used a variant of the tactics she had tried to perfect with her parents : do what you 're told and keep your head down . |
| 14 | So for the next few days this column will present several different ways of assessing corporate performance for 1989 . |
| 15 | It could be another sign that EASE is in for a tough few months , ironic when its annual report due to be published soon , will show that it made its first modest profit in 1992 . |
| 16 | It may also be useful to have a risk management consultant in for the first few meetings , if only to kick-start the process and provide a few , objective ‘ what if ? ’ questions . |
| 17 | I 've been thinking it 's needed some more in for the last few meals . |
| 18 | The therapist agreed to see David daily for the next few days in order to provide him with support . |
| 19 | ‘ Are you going to arrange to be away for the next few days ? ’ |
| 20 | Just for the first few seconds she was back in the days after Hugh 's desertion . |
| 21 | But what I would like to do is to keep him here , just for the next few hours . |
| 22 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 23 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 24 | ‘ I suggest that we try to put our differences aside for the next few hours and get on with the business at hand . ’ |
| 25 | their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win |
| 26 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 28 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 29 | Events lined up for the next few weeks include Indian dancer Bisakha Sarker performing as part of a Verbal Images event , a European Youth Dance Night , The Cholmondleys and V-Tol Dance Company . |
| 30 | Many beekeepers have been examining their bees carefully for the past few years in efforts to find the mite . |