Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tolerated her while Ma was alive to keep the peace for Ma 's sake , except for the past few months , but no more . |
| 2 | Yes , I welcome the substantial orders that have been received and I was pleased to see that in the past few days a number of them have come here . |
| 3 | I am glad to report that in the past few months we have made real progress with the car manufacturers . |
| 4 | The directing principle of this work is that over the past few centuries sexuality has assumed major symbolic importance as a target of social intervention and organisation , to a degree that differentiates this period from those preceding it . |
| 5 | The report noted that over the past few years the government departments had introduced competitive fee bidding for the appointment of consulting engineers leading to lower fee rates . |
| 6 | He wrote Leopold a philosophical letter which has since become famous , in which he said that over the past few years he had come to regard death as the ‘ true goal ’ of man 's existence , and that he had become so closely acquainted with this ‘ best and truest friend ’ that the image of death was no longer terrifying , but rather reassuring and consoling . |
| 7 | Lisa might have responded that over the past few years she 'd endured more than her share of character-building challenges . |
| 8 | Cinestra offers a regular training programme , and for the past few years has operated a highly successful bursary scheme for new video makers which also offers practical production experience for the women they train . |
| 9 | And for the past few months , I 've been reading Viz. |
| 10 | The Walks were forbidden to the villagers and in the final few weeks of pregnancy , Tamar spent much of her time strolling there , in such complete seclusion that she felt cut off from civilisation . |
| 11 | To progress beyond such a static application of systems it is necessary to focus upon the dynamics of the system and in the preceding few pages a number of instances have been cited where physical geographers have already advocated placing emphasis upon the function of the system . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the model has inspired much detailed historical research — indeed it has contributed substantially to the progress of economic and social history — and in the past few decades , partly as a result of the publication of previously inaccessible manuscripts of Marx , there have been some valuable contributions to Marxist scholarship addressed to the kinds of problem that I have indicated , concerning modes of production , tribal ( that is , primitive communal ) societies , historical sequences , and the relation of political power to forms of society . |
| 13 | The Colonel always sought her out on the Thursday of her visit , and in the past few years he had , in the most circumspect manner , pressed his suit . |
| 14 | He is entirely right about the British contribution to Europe , both in the long term and in the past few years when much of the present shape of the Community has arisen from initiatives by this country . |
| 15 | And in the past few years we 've had to go into clearing as most other universities would do . |
| 16 | Plus this means that the strike committee can go public with it 's grievances , and in the past few days , the farmers and the authorities have been debating the issues on local television . |
| 17 | Most of this required data is found in a dictionary , and over the past few years more paper dictionaries have become available in machine-readable form . |
| 18 | It was a disgraceful affair and over the past few years there have been far too many riots in our prisons . |
| 19 | And over the past few days it had developed an infuriating habit of wandering unerringly back to the subject of Adam Burns . |
| 20 | But for the past few days there had been continuous rain , and the forecast was for more bad weather to come . |
| 21 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 22 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | But in the past few years a phoenix has risen from the flames of Lakehurst . |
| 24 | Nature conservationists and farmers ( who both understand what does happen to abandoned land ) should know better , but in the past few years , seem to have become possessed by the same fear of some dark , prolific genie escaping from the bottle . |
| 25 | But in the past few years , the insurance market has been losing money , and it has turned out that the resources of even the richest people are less than infinite . |
| 26 | In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant . |
| 27 | But over the past few weeks many Americans have sensed a change in her . |
| 28 | He 'd never had any particular fear of darkness , but over the past few weeks he seemed to have grown more and more nervous at night . |
| 29 | But over the past few years a new breed of journalist has evolved — hungry , competitive and aggressive . |
| 30 | Mr. Walker : In fairness , they have not been tripled in Wales this year , but over the past few years . |