Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I do not know how I came through the next few months — but , yes , I do . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
| 9 | She ran through the first few pages of each of the paperbacks , her mouth falling open as she read . |
| 10 | She ran through the last few streets and saw with relief the familiar tall building rising against the night sky . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All the discussion we had in the last few days . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It rained during the first few days . |
| 16 | It rained during the first few days . |
| 17 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 18 | Li Yuan swallowed , sensing that everything depended on what he said in the next few moments ; that his father had not quite made up his mind , even now . |