Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] for the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’ |
| 2 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 3 | I reckon I 'd hardly surface from my bunker for the first few days . ’ |
| 4 | After the break-up with Hugh she had resolved to concentrate on her career for the next few years . |
| 5 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
| 6 | Their hosts for the first few days , the Lord of the Isles , Sir Alexander Macdonald , and his wife Jane , a relative of Boswell 's , waited on the shore at Armadale , a small , dirty , sandy horseshoe of a bay , to greet them . |
| 7 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 8 | The child is receiving his direct physical care from a carefully selected woman who will be his nurse-cum-mother for the next few years . |
| 9 | She did n't know whether to smile back or not , and she wondered what that expression had meant , and what had been going through his head for the last few miles . |
| 10 | Can you imitate an academic ? — like not washing or changing your shirt for the next few days … ? ’ |
| 11 | The pension in these schemes is generally based on 1/80th of your earnings for the last few years before retirement , plus a lump sum of 3/80ths of the same earnings . |
| 12 | They really run this hospital , and they 'll be running your life for the next few years . ’ |