Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Philip , who is to take his A Levels this summer , has been studying at Repton for the last few months and will join the Academy in August , two months after Zara arrives at the Academy 's Hemel Hempstead base . |
| 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 | It 's been sitting on the forecourt of a garage just outside Ross on Wye for the past few weeks , and is gaining a considerable amount of interest from passers by … but as yet no one is very serious about buying it . |
| 5 | It 's been Huey , George , Ralph and Bert for the last few days , liquid laffs ahoy . |
| 6 | Considerable progress has been made in improving air quality in the United States during the past few decades but greater improvement is still needed ( figure 8.13 ) . |
| 7 | For travellers to the United States in the last few decades of the nineteenth century the immigrants to be seen at stations in the West , particularly in Omaha , were one of the most striking images of their visits . |
| 8 | Zahedi asked whether the Shah could come to the States in the next few days . |
| 9 | Additional packages of work estimated at £2 million are expected to be sub-contracted to Instem in the next few months . |
| 10 | Strachan looked in a bad way ( hacked unforgivably from behind ) so maybe we 'll be seeing more of Rocky in the next few weeks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Gloucester , which saw active service in the Gulf War , will monitor traffic to and from Serbia and Montenegro for the next few months . |
| 16 | He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract . |
| 17 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 18 | There are two views of what has happened in Russia in the past few years . |
| 19 | He 's due to return from Spain in the next few days . |
| 20 | The information area is another instance where RMI has become entangled and confused with a number of information initiatives in the NHS over the past few years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Certainly , EDS 's flurry of activity in Italy and Spain over the last few months is proof that it had no dire need of BT to capture the interest of new customers and business partners in the southern reaches of Europe . |
| 23 | The London area plays a pivotal role in national migration patterns ( Flowerdew and Salt , 1979 ; Salt and Flowerdew , 1980 ) , so policy developments relating to south-east England over the next few years will be crucial to the way in which urban and regional patterns of population distribution evolve in the foreseeable future . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On 22 October documents were removed from Winchester 's offices by Mr. Wells , in company with the compliance officer of Norwich , and the documents were examined by Mr. Wells over the next few days . |
| 26 | On 22 October documents were removed from Winchester 's offices by Mr. Wells , in company with the compliance officer of Norwich , and the documents were examined by Mr. Wells over the next few days . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He was so depressed , poor boy , at falling in the first place — all Langleys ride as if they were born to it — and then at not being able to return to Cambridge for the last few weeks of term , and his aunt was quite at her wit 's end to know what to do with him . |
| 29 | I have n't read anything official from Elland Road for the past few months , so I 'm presuming that this season coming we wo n't need premier cards to go to away games . |
| 30 | There is no doubt his departure will be a big blow to Mr Major , and will undercut Mr Garel-Jones ' authority as he battles to push the Maastricht Treaty through the Commons in the next few months . |