Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] last few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well . |
2 | I 've been thinking it 's needed some more in for the last few meals . |
3 | Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | This is our first effort at a full newsletter and we now really appreciate how much effort Lynn has put in over the last few years . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 ? |
10 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
11 | We were glad enough that the weather seemed set fair for the remainder of our voyage and next morning set off on the last few miles of our northerly course to round the utmost tip of Shetland . |
12 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
13 | This left Ambegate in front but he weakened up the hill and never-say-die Scudamore forced Vagog up in the last few strides . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
16 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Rain said : ‘ I found out during the last few days . |
20 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
21 | 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 . |
22 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
23 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
24 | They seemed to have everything in command at Pickie on Saturday , but let the BLI come storming back over the last few ends to win on three of the four rinks . |
25 | The Dorset , Devon and Cornwall holiday areas benefited from the good summer weather and from the upgrading of pubs carried out over the last few years . |
26 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
27 | These are the things that we have both missed out on over the last few years , both of us working at all times . ’ |
28 | Okay finally , a third m major er class of ion channel i which has been extensively worked on over the last few years , since the advent of patch clamping er has been second messenger gated channels , so-called second messenger gated channels . |
29 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |