Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] [art] last few " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know , for instance , that large-scale grounding of Foxbats has occurred on all major Red Air Force bases over the last few months . |
| 2 | The line operates every Tuesday and gets dozens of calls , because , despite the fact that there have been fewer home repossessions over the last few months , the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux say that more people are getting themselves into debt . |
| 3 | He organised many other fund raising events during the last few months including a sponsored marathon scuba dive and raised a grand total of £2,000 towards his own travel and subsistence . |
| 4 | Monitoring the telephone conversations of the Kremlin hierarchy had become one of his pet projects over the last few years . |
| 5 | British Rail had introduced new safety measures over the last few months , but they could not legislate against criminal vandalism |
| 6 | There are indications that this at last is changing , partly because of the court cases of the last few years . |
| 7 | Market makers have been running ‘ flat ’ trading books over the last few days to minimise their risk . |
| 8 | ‘ People have got used to England winning line-out balls over the last few years . |
| 9 | Herbert Tracey reflected that the ‘ defeatist ’ mood of the trade unions over the last few years had been transformed . |
| 10 | Not so High Rocks , whose owners have steadily raised their admission charges in the last few years , threatened climbers with access restrictions , and put nothing at all back into the maintenance of the rocks , save to enclose them in a sturdy , reinforced fence . |
| 11 | It 's been one of the success stories of the last few years , managing to get through the culture barrier where the local authority thought a small unit was 15 or 20 people working down and the health service thought a small unit was 120 and worked down with great reluctance . |
| 12 | In general , the topic has become more prominent in management and trade union circles over the last few years . |
| 13 | Consequently , an active programme of asset disposals has been under way over the last year in order to reduce the group 's high level of debt , which was the result of decisions to develop new oil and gas fields over the last few years , as well as the additional debt burden inherited following the acquisition of Ultramar . |
| 14 | The explosive prices for Teddy Bears in the last few years indicate how a market can be created , in this case by a mix of merit and nostalgia . |
| 15 | Significantly , it says there has been slowing down of sales of its Sparc server systems over the last few months , and expects its European turnover for the coming year to remain flat at $15m . |
| 16 | ‘ The hunting season may start now , but these people have been out mercilessly killing the young fox cubs for the last few months to train the hounds , ’ said trainee accountant Sarah Carruthers , 19 . |
| 17 | The project is following up those young people who have left the Association 's training schemes in the last few years and is investigating , through questionnaires and interviews , how the employers of those ex-trainees make their recruitment decisions . |
| 18 | In FACE 46 you complimented a new club in Leeds , saying it was a refreshing change to the frenzied sweaty Ecstasy nights of the last few years . |
| 19 | Currently places within airlines are few and far between , but virtually all employable aircrew made jobless by the airline failures of the last few years have found new positions , although not always within the UK . |