Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] few day " 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 | The Detachment Commander , a Captain and Ammunition Technical Officer ( ATO ) in the Royal Ordnance Corps , is busy writing up reports for the couple of incidents the team has attended during the preceding few days . |
| 3 | They were new shoes but already scuffed and dusty from the amount of walking he had done in the past few days . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Has my right hon. Friend noticed in the past few days the widespread support for our plans to seek better-quality services from councils ? |
| 7 | Sterling lost all gains made over the past few days after the Germans cut a quarter per cent off their interest rate . |
| 8 | Also on Sept. 18 UK Prime Minister John Major referred in a television interview to " fault lines in the ERM revealed over the past few days " , and said that there was no imminent prospect of the UK returning to the ERM , which itself needed reform , while Bundesbank president Helmut Schlesinger said in Washington on Sept. 21 that serious negotiations would be needed before sterling could be readmitted to the ERM . |
| 9 | As many Tory candidates and canvassers noted during the past few days , thousands of voters were shrugging their shoulders and saying : ‘ We do n't like you , but ’ ( said with a sigh ) ‘ we 'll have to vote for you . |
| 10 | Police said the child was born within the past few days . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Think of a situation , event or physical symptom you have experienced in the past few days . |
| 13 | My legs are shaded by the dust which has gathered over the past few days , so that the contrast is like a Coppertone ad , with the puppy pulling a little girl 's knickers off . |
| 14 | Does the Minister recognise that the people of Wolverhampton do not regard the Secretary of State for the Environment as environmentally benign , certainly over the problems that they face with the new standard spending assessment announced in the past few days — |
| 15 | He was going out and would be engaged for the following few days . |
| 16 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that this is not something that has arisen in the past few days , but has been carefully negotiated by the Government over many weeks ? |