Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her body was already responding , although her mind was still stubbornly clinging to the last few threads of resistance . |
| 2 | And er , as you 'll see , probably next week 's , I 'm not going to get to this now , er , next week , or possible the week after , even , depending on how long it takes me to get there , I will suggest to you that the revolution now taking place in behavioural science , does suggest wh what they are , and that there are in fact some deeply countering intuitive insights , erm , into this whole issue , which have only emerged in the last few years . |
| 3 | According to Prof Friel , who left home in 1968 to work in England , self-confidence among Derry people has only emerged in the last few years . |
| 4 | The use of oils in the kitchen has greatly increased in the last few decades , influenced by foreign travel and the subsequent awareness of international cuisine . |
| 5 | The road into Ribeira Brava has been much improved in the last few years . |
| 6 | Our marketing agency , Faulds , were asked to take three very powerful messages from our existing messages from our existing product range and develop advertising that was easy to understand and humorous — an approach which building societies have successfully adopted in the last few years . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ We have had one man killed and six badly injured in the last few days . |
| 8 | There is a summary , your proof , your appendices , there 's a letter dated the fourth of February from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust , there is a special statement , and last , and only just received in the last few minutes , there is a supplementary note by Doctor on the Greater Crested Newt and its importance in relation to Skelton Pond . |
| 9 | We 've just heard in the last few minutes that the application for that hotel to be listed has been turned down . |
| 10 | Our largest vole , the water vole , is very active at the moment as its breeding season will have just started in the last few weeks . |
| 11 | Stretford Bridge could have been little used after the first few months of the BCR 's life , when passengers presumably had to walk between there and Craven Arms — unless horse-drawn transport was provided along the road . |
| 12 | These drawings were always made between the last few days of August and the end of October . |
| 13 | As he later explained , he deliberately dallied over the last few runs in order to let his partner , Peach , reach his double-century . |
| 14 | There is no time limit on the patient 's capacity for physical recovery , although an experienced physiotherapist usually knows within the first few weeks of starting treatment how quick or slow a hemiplegic patient 's physical recovery is likely to be . |
| 15 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 16 | Employee relations manager George Piechniczek said : ‘ This sensitive issue has been extensively debated over the last few years and whilst the trade unions support the principle of protecting non-smokers at work , it has proved difficult to find a practical solution that satisfied all parties . ’ |
| 17 | Although intonation has been extensively studied in the last few decades , detailed descriptions of all but a handful of well-known languages are few , and the wide variety of theoretical assumptions which underlie them makes comparison difficult . |
| 18 | Why was Sharp dropped for the last few games , and did he play today ? |
| 19 | ‘ It means the long waiting lists for surgery and outpatients will be substantially shortened in the next few months , ’ Dr Mulholland said . |
| 20 | The GOVERNOR manufacturers have always moved with us , and , for example , the cost of providing a supply from a Transmission main has been substantially reduced in the last few years , by use of skid mounted governor units using small diameter connections from the pipeline . |
| 21 | Some in Europe who had maintained the Yellow Sword declared it was an extremely difficult fish , only giving birth to about 20 very week fry — which often died in the first few weeks . |
| 22 | If they are not successfully concluded in the next few months a major objective of the single market will not have been achieved : far from becoming more internationally efficient and competitive , EC industry will fall further behind in a world of growing protectionism and trade blocs . |
| 23 | Those of you who were present at the AGM will be aware that we have been told by the GAP that the Society 's grant will be drastically reduced during the next few years and will cease after 1991 . |
| 24 | She ran along the side of the house , round the back of a stone-stilted granary and down behind the dovecot , and then darted across the last few yards to the wall . |
| 25 | While the trend toward increasing the integration has only just begun , we are still awaiting Frame Technology 's launch of FrameMaker onto the Macintosh and , possibly , OS/2 Presentation Manager , it is in this direction that desktop publishing is undoubtedly heading during the next few years . |
| 26 | The company has been completely transformed in the last few years so that its environmental service now represents more than 80 per cent of its turnover . |
| 27 | Let's briefly go through the first few generations of the main line of evolution in Figure 4 . |
| 28 | She had barely skimmed over the last few paragraphs of information , used to Debbie 's ridiculous ideas about a person 's birth sign giving a clue to his character , but now the temptation to find out proved too great . |
| 29 | Jealousy of her friend had been steadily mounting in the last few months . |
| 30 | Such was the ferment of the times throughout Europe , and such was the rising volume of political controversy within Britain ( bear in mind also the Suffragette agitation and the conflict over the future of Ireland ) , that a more dramatic tipping of the balance than actually occurred in the next few years might have been expected . |