Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scholar , Hector Boece , first Principal of Aberdeen University , writing about Ayrshire in the first few years of the 16th century , observed that , , another indication of the age of the legend . |
| 2 | He has been on nearly two dozen foreign trips on behalf of LA in the past few years and some of his questionable financial dealings have been investigated . |
| 3 | Now that Cadfael came to think of it , less than usual had been seen and heard of Jerome for the past few days , ever since the evening when he had been discovered on his bed , quaking and sick with bellyaches and headaches , and been soothed to sleep by Cadfael 's stomachics and syrups . |
| 4 | Strachan looked in a bad way ( hacked unforgivably from behind ) so maybe we 'll be seeing more of Rocky in the next few weeks . |
| 5 | One of the most significant changes within the Bank of England during the last few years has been the improvement in arrangements for supervising the banking system . |
| 6 | Taken together , these results suggest that proteins synthesized from pre-existing mRNA are required for the maintenance of LTP during the first few hours ( corresponding to LTP2 in the classification shown in Box 1 ) . |
| 7 | Mr Clarke wrote to the MP Greville Janner to tell him that regulations to allow men to work as au pairs would be put before the House of Commons in the next few months . |
| 8 | Knocked out of Europe in the first few rounds , most Scottish footballers are readily available for mid-week court cases , and can not draw on Jimmy Johnstone 's range of excuses . |
| 9 | The first and more important reason is that he is likely to be transferred out of Bull within the next few months , along with other chief executives at state-owned companies , when the rightist coalition almost inevitably takes over the government from the Socialist Party after the legislative elections this month . |
| 10 | She hoped that Anna would keep off the subject of Luke for the next few hours . |
| 11 | REFLECTING the Scots ' growing influence in top level squash , five players — Mark Maclean , Peter Nicol , Derek Ritchie , Martin Heath and Emma Donaldson — will be on the trail of world-ranking points at events throughout Europe within the next few weeks . |
| 12 | A sense of adventure remained with Sara for the next few days , a sense of adventure tempered with trepidation , so that she had a sensation of flying high . |
| 13 | A preoccupation with HIV during the last few years has diverted attention from another major bloodborne infection , hepatitis B , which exacts a much higher toll of disease on health care workers . |
| 14 | Luck had been on Cassie 's side up until now , for Stephanie had been working in Germany for the past few weeks and this circumstance had removed the necessity of proffering an invitation ; with , of course , the desirable Martin in attendance . |
| 15 | THE sickening events in Romania over the past few days now leave Albania as the last resort of old-style Stalinism . |
| 16 | I want to thank also er the different organisations , cos you made an absolute profit for the G P O , er erm British Telecom , they must have actually made a bomb in Leicestershire over the last few days . |
| 17 | He 's due to return from Spain in the next few days . |
| 18 | Reports I read in the national press suggest that retail sales are not improving , and that has certainly been borne out by our experience in Scotland over the last few weeks . |
| 19 | Digital has run down sections of its operation in Ireland over the last few years , including the closure of a plant a Clonmel with the loss of 350 jobs . |
| 20 | He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract . |
| 21 | There are two views of what has happened in Russia in the past few years . |
| 22 | I write that the paradox is apparent because there have been signs of the same phenomenon in England over the past few seasons — and also because it is not at all surprising when you come to think about it . |
| 23 | Bob made a point of taking a benevolent interest in Morris over the next few days , to balance out Dyson 's hostility . |
| 24 | The economy is poised for take-off and the figures in Stroud over the last few months but I fully understand the fears of the workers and their families |
| 25 | About 1,500 East Germans who managed to reach Bonn 's embassy in Warsaw in the past few weeks have been sent to the West in two special trains . |
| 26 | Privately British officials believe Mr Patten will now have to endure a barrage of criticism from China over the next few weeks , following Prime Minister Li Peng 's report to the 8th National Party Congress next Monday at which he is expected to lambast the colonial administration for trying to subvert China with western-style democracy . |
| 27 | There was something approaching a ‘ moral panic ’ taking place in China during the last few years of the reform decade , exacerbated by the ‘ falling in love craze ’ and some of its unhealthy results . |
| 28 | Nokia Oy 's Nokia Telecommunications says it has signed an agreement with Ukrainian Mobile Communications for the supply of switching and base station equipment for the Ukrainian NMT 450 cellular mobile telephone network : the network is to be launched commercially in Kiev in the next few weeks and will become available in two other major cities by the end of this year ; Ukrainian Mobile Communications is jointly owned by Ukrainian local operators , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV and Telecom Denmark Ltd . |
| 29 | Given the number of prominent cases of judicial error in Britain over the past few years — Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , Stefan Kiszcko , the Tottenham Three and Judith Ward — it is not an abstract question . |
| 30 | If one looks across the channel , as some of us have , and sees the way in which the matter is approached there , it is humiliating to consider what has gone on in Britain over the past few years . |