Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
| 2 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
| 3 | The re-launch of the share issue is expected in the next few weeks . |
| 4 | An announcement from the Home Office confirming the reopening of Oxford is expected in the next few weeks |
| 5 | A further 120 rods are expected in the next few months and air transport is a possibility , the UKAEA says . |
| 6 | Despite the brisk sales reported in the last few days before Christmas , December saw a small decline in retail trade compared with the previous year , according to the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , said on Tuesday that many retailers had reported a disappointing Christmas , although the results were an improvement on recent months and sales in January were expected to be up on a year ago . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |
| 9 | ‘ It means the long waiting lists for surgery and outpatients will be substantially shortened in the next few months , ’ Dr Mulholland said . |
| 10 | You must first seek to interest the editor and to do this you must make certain that the essence of the story is contained in the first few sentences . |
| 11 | However , if every seventh word has been deleted in the first few sentences , then every seventh word must be deleted for the rest of the test . |
| 12 | The portrait of the study of social policy as presented in the last few paragraphs shows that it is a subject that draws upon a number of different academic disciplines . |
| 13 | Its component elements are absorbed in the first few years of life largely unconsciously , and later more deliberately by informal and formal learning processes . |
| 14 | The vendor will be required to warrant that no industrial action has been taken or threatened in the last few years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Much has been done in the past few months , but more needs to be done . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They were new shoes but already scuffed and dusty from the amount of walking he had done in the past few days . |
| 21 | Although we found no evidence that the referral behaviour of first wave fundholders was affected by budgetary pressures , this may not be indicative of the way in which the effects of the reforms will be felt in the next few years . |
| 22 | Open-field farming , with few or no hedges must have produced a very bare landscape , totally lacking in visual interest which the great modern prairie farms of East Anglia have actually re-created in the last few decades . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ We have had one man killed and six badly injured in the last few days . |
| 24 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 25 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 26 | How many gigs have you missed in the last few months ? ’ |
| 27 | Some costs have risen in the past few years . ’ |
| 28 | The efficiency gains that RBS wrought in the first few months of Project Columbus reflect how much fat it was carrying . |
| 29 | As things turned out it was the Americans who made the greatest contribution , drawing heavily on the practice they had adopted in the last few years to incorporate the expertise available from industry and the unions into their CAB ( as they then were ) investigations . |
| 30 | 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 . |