Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [prep] the [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors were expected to decide in the next few hours whether Nicola would be allowed home today . |
| 2 | Apart from the UK and Scandinavian countries , penetration is still low in Europe , but this is expected to change over the next few years as telecommunications markets are opened up . |
| 3 | The industry says that the figure should be almost 165,000 , and that more jobs are threatened to go in the next few months . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've grown to realise over the past few weeks just how much the place really does mean to you , ’ he said quietly . |
| 5 | In addition , the ending of the Iran/Iraq conflict has meant that there is now more oil on world markets and the price of oil has tended to fall over the last few months . |
| 6 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 7 | The more what we might call trendy or eccentric or showy technique has tended to become in the last few years , the more I have felt I wanted to try and make films with as much simplicity and as much directness as possible . |
| 8 | The strongest activity has been at the bottom end of the market , where there is considerable pent-up demand from first-time buyers who have delayed buying over the past few years , for fear that house prices would fall further . |
| 9 | RAIL fares are scheduled to soar in the next few years and at least 5,000 railway jobs will be lost following the Government 's decision to slash grants for British Rail in the early 1990s . |
| 10 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
| 11 | DEFENDER Terry Butcher swallowed up Luton 's attack — then confessed he could be forced to retire in the next few weeks . |
| 12 | The newsheet had started to appear over the past few days as the villagers began to return to their homes . |
| 13 | As harvest time was drawing to a close and autumn would soon be upon them , Tamar admitted what she had tried to deny for the last few weeks . |
| 14 | Farms that have ceased to exist in the last few years have been Osentons ( or Clinkham Farm ) , Whitings , Clements and Flint House . |
| 15 | There was a period when cyclists disappeared from the Meet altogether but they have started to return in the last few years and among the highlights of this year 's event — May 22–25 — will be a return to races on the old grass cycle track around the perimeter of Richmond Cricket Club 's ground and a road race for penny-farthings . |
| 16 | 80,000 ft of purpose built warehousing for goods in transit is ready for occupation and this replacement programme is planned to continue over the next few years . |
| 17 | Kirov assessed the scant information he had managed to accumulate over the last few weeks . |