Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [art] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present the authorities in Berlin are having difficulty coping with those who have arrived so far , though no more than 1,100 or so have come in the past few days . |
| 2 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
| 3 | While we have had our differences with the Government about the interim advisory committee and the way in which it has worked , it might be worthwhile at this stage , in what might be our final debate on the work of the interim advisory committee , to thank its members for the work that they have done in the past few years . |
| 4 | Much has been done in the past few months , but more needs to be done . |
| 5 | I wonder how many of them will fill their pages tomorrow or the day after in the way they have done in the past few weeks . |
| 6 | They were new shoes but already scuffed and dusty from the amount of walking he had done in the past few days . |
| 7 | Some costs have risen in the past few years . ’ |
| 8 | Security guard Ed Collett , 32 , from Highbury , north London , said : ‘ It 's the best film I 've seen in the past few years . |
| 9 | So it is that recent Soros-inspired gold-price rises have been matched in the past few days by increases in bond yields ( ie , falls in bond prices ) . |
| 10 | They can also point to real improvements made in the past few years : a rationalisation of economic-development agencies , say , or a tightening up of Medicaid billing procedures . |
| 11 | The number of advances made in the past few days has sharply increased as companies attempt to match their rivals and allay the tax fears of senior staff . |
| 12 | Has my right hon. Friend noticed in the past few days the widespread support for our plans to seek better-quality services from councils ? |
| 13 | The Classics section with Nemo , Krazy Kat , TinTin , Dick Tracy , is featured largely because the strips in it have been reprinted in the past few years . |
| 14 | They look around this area , they see the factories that have closed in the past few years , they know how many people are out of work . ’ |
| 15 | Interest has intensified in the past few years , encouraged by the scarcity of draughting skills , tough markets and the tumbling costs of CAD . |
| 16 | The method used in the past few years has been simple — ignore names put forward by organisations you do not approve of and pack the committees with more sympathetic interest groups . |
| 17 | ‘ All the money that Sheikh Osman has used in the past few weeks in his war against the Copts is money that you have given him . ’ |
| 18 | The rate of ozone depletion in the Antarctic has slowed in the past few years , but the researchers say that their model predicts " a return to more rapid depletion during the next four years as the solar minimum is approached . " |
| 19 | The historian-punter would be sitting in bonds ( which have rallied in the past few months ) waiting patiently to switch back to equities , starting cautiously in the middle of this year , and so to ride the bull market of the mid-1990s . |
| 20 | Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that if politicians in Northern Ireland had been sitting at a table , the awful atrocities that we have witnessed in the past few days would not have taken place ? |
| 21 | But the haemorrhage of people since travel was eased in the past few years , and the mass exodus of the past weeks suggest they are in a minority . |
| 22 | An investigation undertaken in the past few years by the United Nations found that ‘ … in the majority of reporting agencies , computer staff … have chief responsibility for management policies relating to e-mail communications … |
| 23 | Individual colleges and institutes vary both according to the proportion of advanced work which they provide and also the types of courses which they offer , depending partly on the nature of the institutions which went to make them up and partly on the way in which they have developed in the past few years . |
| 24 | Will my right hon. Friend undertake that when she next talks to the leaders of Kenya she will communicate the grave anxiety felt in the House about human rights in Kenya and the way in which some opposition politicians are being treated and have been treated in the past few years ? |
| 25 | Think of a situation , event or physical symptom you have experienced in the past few days . |
| 26 | It is to be regretted that many of the Government 's measures relating to its asylum policy introduced in the past few years , have been to discourage new arrivals . |
| 27 | In reviewing the measures that have been introduced in the past few years , my right hon. Friend referred to carriers ' liability . |
| 28 | They seem to be allowing the targeting of young people through advertising , but , because of the tax regime that they have introduced in the past few years , they seem to be exporting jobs in the tobacco industry . |
| 29 | The Mothers ' Front is demanding information about more than 40,000 people it says have disappeared in the past few years . |
| 30 | It was only recently a town that offered waged work for women , though much of that has disappeared in the past few years , and it was never a town that invited black workers . |