Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [art] [num ord] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Zahedi asked whether the Shah could come to the States in the next few days . |
| 3 | Additional packages of work estimated at £2 million are expected to be sub-contracted to Instem in the next few months . |
| 4 | Strachan looked in a bad way ( hacked unforgivably from behind ) so maybe we 'll be seeing more of Rocky in the next few weeks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He 's due to return from Spain in the next few days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr Clarke wrote to the MP Greville Janner to tell him that regulations to allow men to work as au pairs would be put before the House of Commons in the next few months . |
| 9 | He would like to think , he said , that his mind will not wander to the race at Aintree in the next few days , that he will not run it through his mind , that it will not permeate his waking life . |
| 10 | Nokia Oy 's Nokia Telecommunications says it has signed an agreement with Ukrainian Mobile Communications for the supply of switching and base station equipment for the Ukrainian NMT 450 cellular mobile telephone network : the network is to be launched commercially in Kiev in the next few weeks and will become available in two other major cities by the end of this year ; Ukrainian Mobile Communications is jointly owned by Ukrainian local operators , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV and Telecom Denmark Ltd . |
| 11 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 12 | Britain is to send four ships which took part in the Falklands War , to carry the desert rats to the Gulf : Sir Tristram , Sir Galahad , Sir Bevedere and er Sir Bedevere and Sir Percival are expected to start picking up tanks from West Germany in the next few weeks . |
| 13 | Other offices are planned for Italy and Germany in the next few months . |
| 14 | Mr Mitterrand praised the people of Leipzig for ‘ having written the history of Europe and Germany in the last few weeks ’ . |
| 15 | The breathtaking pace of political upheaval in Eastern Europe , the Baltic region and Transcaucasia in the last few weeks of the 1980s has naturally focused international attention on those parts of the Soviet empire lying to the west of the Ural mountains , including those countries which were allotted to Joseph Stalin 's ‘ sphere of influence ’ at the end of the Second World War . |
| 16 | The 12-strong board of governors meets on Thursday , and although most have diplomatically refused to comment on the row , estimates are that in the absence of any further evidence against Mr Birt in the next few days , he will survive any vote on his future . |
| 17 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 18 | Opinion polls suggest that a variety of social reforms carried out in Britain in the last few years — the abolition of capital punishment and the liberalization of the law relating to homosexuality , for example — were enacted in the face of popular opposition . |
| 19 | The severe storms that have affected Britain in the last few years may be linked with sea-surface temperatures which have been fractionally higher than the long-term average . |
| 20 | ASK ANY thoughtful person for a list of the problems likely to confront Britain in the next few decades and he or she will have no trouble answering . |
| 21 | In this way Tao gets money , but also retains its independence : Charig says that Tao Systems has turned down a number of buy-out bids from the US in the last few months . |
| 22 | In this way Tao gets money , but also retains its independence : Charig says that Tao Systems has turned down a number of buy-out bids from the US in the last few months . |
| 23 | The Queen , who is due to visit Balmoral in the next few weeks , was immediately informed of her mother 's condition . |
| 24 | Knocked out of Europe in the first few rounds , most Scottish footballers are readily available for mid-week court cases , and can not draw on Jimmy Johnstone 's range of excuses . |
| 25 | I 've quartered Europe in the last few years . |
| 26 | The steel crisis , caused by over-production and cheap east European imports , is expected to slash 50,000 jobs in western Europe in the next few years , about 40,000 of them in Germany . |
| 27 | Drivers who pass their test in Banbury in the next few months are being offered the chance to learn how to drive on the motorway . |
| 28 | Barring any last minutes hitches , Odessa and her mother and father will be on a plane to Heathrow in the next few days . |
| 29 | A state of relative peace prevailed in West Beirut in the first few months of 1990 , partly owing to a Jan. 25 decision by the Lebanese Cabinet to endorse the West Beirut security plan agreed between Hrawi and the Syrian government during the former 's visit to Damascus earlier in the month . |
| 30 | The tenth nuclear power unit is to start operating in India in the next few months , with the country aiming for a nuclear part with a total of 16 units within the coming years . |