Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Keegan 's No 2 , Terry McDermott , hinted that the move could be sorted out in the next few days . |
| 2 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 3 | The 25-year-old will cost around £700,000 and the signing is likely to be pushed through in the next few days in time for the Christmas programme . |
| 4 | The chips themselves are being worked on by ITT , which has said the problems will be ironed out in the next few weeks . |
| 5 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 6 | But in Latin America , even the crudest indicators such as per capita GNP , or gross national product ( which takes no account of wealth distribution ) show that people 's incomes have actually gone down in the last few years and their health , education and nutrition have gone down with them . |
| 7 | Such a change would set the final seal on what is perhaps the most radical transformation Japan has gone through in the last few decades : the disappearance of the farming community as a fundamental axis of politics , the economy and society and the emergence of Japan as a fully-fledged urban , industrial society . |
| 8 | What was erm how , how badly was the south by affected by the Japanese , I mean what were the peasants likely to have gone through in the last few years ? |
| 9 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
| 10 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |