Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
| 2 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |
| 3 | I do not know how I came through the next few months — but , yes , I do . |
| 4 | We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too . |
| 5 | And I hope over the next few months that the people that 's present today and other people , get more involved in the campaign . |
| 6 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 7 | As father said at the beginning of gruelling sessions in the vacs , the techniques I needed for the next few years — apart from those concerned with sport — dealt not so much with manual skills but with communication , both written and oral . |
| 8 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 9 | I think over the last few months , there 's been so much killing that maybe for me , that was the the watershed . |
| 10 | It was really only a very small group of students involved , but they got a lot of publicity and I think over the last few years it 's changed quite a lot . |
| 11 | This can be reduced a little if she goes in with all she needs for the first few days : a clean dressing-gown , slippers , a change of night clothes and bedjacket and all the toilet articles and other small items she is likely to want . |
| 12 | How many gigs have you missed in the last few months ? ’ |
| 13 | What you will think of it , I suspect , depends on your zodiac sign or whether you blubbed through the last few minutes of Peter Weir 's Dead Poets Society . |
| 14 | I 'm thinking of buying myself some ice skates , I 've been promising myself those , just , you know over the last few years when we have had a , just a bit , mind you there was one year about six years ago were n't it , where we were |
| 15 | well you know over the last few weeks we know that er |
| 16 | It 's a frustrating affair though — do n't think for a second that you can breeze through this game ; think yourself lucky if you get past the first few levels ! |
| 17 | Unless she died in the next few weeks — and why should she die ? — it could be the end of his life on the headland , the end of his organization , the end of all he had planned and hoped to do . |
| 18 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
| 19 | She ran through the first few pages of each of the paperbacks , her mouth falling open as she read . |
| 20 | She ran through the last few streets and saw with relief the familiar tall building rising against the night sky . |
| 21 | We examine in the next few chapters what evidence there is to support this particularly bleak view . |
| 22 | As we begin for the next few weeks on Monday mornings with Jenny , A day in the life , A day in the life of Nottinghamshire County Council . |
| 23 | I reflected that I was sitting there letting her do so on the assumption that those notes would be our reference point for what we did over the next few weeks . |
| 24 | All the discussion we had in the last few days . |
| 25 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 26 | But Taylor stressed : ‘ I just have to wait and see how many games he plays over the next few weeks . ’ |
| 27 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 28 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
| 29 | It rained during the first few days . |
| 30 | It rained during the first few days . |