Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] 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 | An issue for research libraries over the next few years is to seize the opportunity offered by technology for enrichment of OPACs as electronic access tools . |
| 3 | In keeping with that statement growth in undergraduate numbers over the past few years has been less than 1 per cent a year . |
| 4 | PLANS to sell the UK 's radio waves to the highest bidders are likely to be considered by Department of Trade and Industry ministers within the next few weeks . |
| 5 | Despite all his dissembling about any new industry alliances over the past few months , Carlo de Benedetti told Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's annual meeting that he had been negotiating with Digital Equipment Corp , and revealed details of the alliance . |
| 6 | The major prospecting and proposed mining projects over the past few years , the third wave , have been met by community investigation and , eventually , resistance . |
| 7 | With plans to expand our cutter fleet in the offing Venturous took on a new role as training ship during the winter periods for the next few years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By thus reproducing arguments in favour of unequal pay which had a long pedigree , Amelia McLean 's article showed that she was either unable or unwilling to realize that , apart from anything else , the introduction of Monotype machines within the previous few years had completely redistributed the cards . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Monitoring the telephone conversations of the Kremlin hierarchy had become one of his pet projects over the last few years . |
| 12 | Middlesbrough 's Impasse Centre is holding crisis meetings over the next few days to try to determine funding to stay open . |
| 13 | The Government plans to phase in its tax proposals over the next few years . |
| 14 | ‘ This is the model our analysts have come up with for the development of our leisure interests over the next few years . |
| 15 | British Rail had introduced new safety measures over the last few months , but they could not legislate against criminal vandalism |
| 16 | The wise student will at the outset of his course look at the examination papers for the past few years , and , whether compelled to or not , will write out the answers to some questions ( even though only in brief note form ) in order to gain practice in self-expression . |
| 17 | There are indications that this at last is changing , partly because of the court cases of the last few years . |
| 18 | Market makers have been running ‘ flat ’ trading books over the last few days to minimise their risk . |
| 19 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 20 | OMON troops had been blamed for a series of attacks on over 20 Baltic border posts over the previous few months . |
| 21 | ‘ People have got used to England winning line-out balls over the last few years . |
| 22 | With a projected increase in gas filling stations in the next few years , the private vehicle market will follow . |
| 23 | KENNY Colbert , George Robinson , Richard Smyth , Peadar Hurson … all Ulster drivers and all Irish national rally champions in the past few years . |
| 24 | The statistics also took no account of power station closures in the next few years , said Mr Bartlett . |
| 25 | She set many long distance records over the next few years , culminating in the England to Capetown and return record in 1936 in the Percival New Gull . |
| 26 | Remember the ground improvements in the past few years too . |
| 27 | Herbert Tracey reflected that the ‘ defeatist ’ mood of the trade unions over the last few years had been transformed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The driver relies on his navigator 's skill at ‘ reading the road ’ — what 's next in the way of bends , cross-roads , bridges , T-junctions and so on , and how the road curves in the next few hundred yards . |