Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did the squalid detail of the atrocities of The Fox which the press featured so fully have no effect on the variety of Foxes spawned and featured so prominently over the next few months in the pages of these newspapers ? |
| 2 | If it falls much further over the next few days , Mr Major will have no choice but to raise interest rates . |
| 3 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 4 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 5 | ‘ The truth , about which we spoke so often in the past few years , has been reaffirmed once again — where there is a delay in dealing with overripe problems , excesses are inevitable , ’ Gorbachev said in the Tass transcript of his speech . |
| 6 | Larger , ‘ executive ’ cars are poorer value to buy new , because their value drops so sharply in the first few years . |
| 7 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 8 | In fact , the present strength in depth of the England set-up and the fine organisation nationally bodes extremely well for the next few seasons . |
| 9 | Those sectors have continued to invest and that has certainly served us extremely well over the last few years when things have been tight . |
| 10 | So much happened so fast in the next few days . |
| 11 | We all worked extremely hard in the next few days , cleaning all the rooms and preparing the food . |
| 12 | Thus even for the privileged few the length of time during which they can enjoy their peak earnings is being restricted . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to be away increasingly in the next few years . |
| 14 | According to official statistics , between 1980 and 1987 30 million primary and middle-school ‘ dropouts ’ had been recorded with the numbers rising more rapidly during the previous few years ( CD 7.12. 88 ) . |
| 15 | $300m will be paid by the firm 's various insurers and the remainder by its 2,000 partners , most probably over the next few years . |
| 16 | The Anglesey scheme operated for over 30 years , albeit rather intermittently for the past few years . |
| 17 | Unit-linked policies by and large have performed fairly well over the last few years and have consequently been growing in popularity . |
| 18 | ‘ Paul has played really well over the last few weeks and deserves his move . |
| 19 | At the same time energy is lost from rotational degrees of freedom , by collisions during the expansion , and samples often end up almost entirely in the lowest few rotational levels , so that only a few transitions are observed in the spectrum . |
| 20 | It is important to stress that the method of control has in fact changed quite substantially over the last few years . |
| 21 | I think things have changed quite dramatically in the last few years certainly , we admit very few people and we see them mostly as an outpatient . |
| 22 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 23 | But look which cultural projects have been funded by the EC almost incidentally over the last few years , and you see that in practise it is likely to be a thoroughly benign Leviathan . |
| 24 | However , we should not assume that a great deal has not been achieved quite spectacularly in the past few years . |
| 25 | I feel like Judas , but there 's a way out ; not with any honour , perhaps , but I 've looked at myself pretty closely over the last few days and I 've had to admit to myself that I 'm not quite as wonderful a guy as I liked to think I was . |
| 26 | And I think it 's both important for N C V O itself , to ensure that it 's working on issues , equal opportunities issues that affect itself , and that it 's helping the sector as a whole to do that , and and we 're very conscious of that , and er , certainly just in the last few weeks , have been looking at how we can upgrade what we 're doing in that sphere . |
| 27 | Er the unemployment rate while still relatively in relation to national and even er regional levels , has increased very rapidly over the last few years and in fact over the last two or three years we 've had something like three thousand jobs lost i in Harrogate . |
| 28 | He 's sticking his neck out , with a prediction that the snow ploughs and gritting lorries wo n't be needed too often over the next few months . |
| 29 | I therefore would strongly urge NARE — and preferably in concert with others — to monitor events very closely over the next few years . |