Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did the squalid detail of the atrocities of The Fox which the press featured so fully have no effect on the variety of Foxes spawned and featured so prominently over the next few months in the pages of these newspapers ? |
| 2 | If it falls much further over the next few days , Mr Major will have no choice but to raise interest rates . |
| 3 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 4 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 5 | ‘ The truth , about which we spoke so often in the past few years , has been reaffirmed once again — where there is a delay in dealing with overripe problems , excesses are inevitable , ’ Gorbachev said in the Tass transcript of his speech . |
| 6 | Larger , ‘ executive ’ cars are poorer value to buy new , because their value drops so sharply in the first few years . |
| 7 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 8 | In fact , the present strength in depth of the England set-up and the fine organisation nationally bodes extremely well for the next few seasons . |
| 9 | Those sectors have continued to invest and that has certainly served us extremely well over the last few years when things have been tight . |
| 10 | So much happened so fast in the next few days . |
| 11 | We all worked extremely hard in the next few days , cleaning all the rooms and preparing the food . |
| 12 | On behalf of the 400 men from Sherwood who work at Gedling , I thank my hon. Friend for his endless time and effort , not only during the past few weeks but over years , to keep that colliery open . |
| 13 | In no sense did it correspond to the experience of student activism that so many of my generation were to go through elsewhere over the next few years . |
| 14 | That experience , providing free advice to the borough , started a desire to apply his knowledge to promoting the conservation of the environment generally , not just for a relative few previous buildings . |
| 15 | Action has been taken , not just in the past few years but consistently by successive Governments since 1904 , to inhibit tobacco consumption by children . |
| 16 | Thus even for the privileged few the length of time during which they can enjoy their peak earnings is being restricted . |
| 17 | Man 's essential Self or Ātman , is the imperishable and eternal soul , and ahi sā is the power of the soul ; it is the soul force which is capable of being practised by everyone and not simply by the cloistered few . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to be away increasingly in the next few years . |
| 19 | Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless , aimless Government . |
| 20 | According to official statistics , between 1980 and 1987 30 million primary and middle-school ‘ dropouts ’ had been recorded with the numbers rising more rapidly during the previous few years ( CD 7.12. 88 ) . |
| 21 | $300m will be paid by the firm 's various insurers and the remainder by its 2,000 partners , most probably over the next few years . |
| 22 | But I think they 'll come up well in the next few years . |
| 23 | I shall want a good start and be up there over the first few fences . |
| 24 | so , erm I mean think we 're in their hands and that 's why I was a bit apprehensive about doing publicity for it at such an early stage because I like to see i 's dotted and t 's crossed er but however I 'll chase them up again in the next few days |
| 25 | The Anglesey scheme operated for over 30 years , albeit rather intermittently for the past few years . |
| 26 | These are the things that we have both missed out on over the last few years , both of us working at all times . ’ |
| 27 | Unit-linked policies by and large have performed fairly well over the last few years and have consequently been growing in popularity . |
| 28 | ‘ Paul has played really well over the last few weeks and deserves his move . |
| 29 | At the same time energy is lost from rotational degrees of freedom , by collisions during the expansion , and samples often end up almost entirely in the lowest few rotational levels , so that only a few transitions are observed in the spectrum . |
| 30 | It is important to stress that the method of control has in fact changed quite substantially over the last few years . |