Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] in the [num ord] 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 | The industry says that the figure should be almost 165,000 , and that more jobs are threatened to go in the next few months . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | DEFENDER Terry Butcher swallowed up Luton 's attack — then confessed he could be forced to retire in the next few weeks . |
| 6 | Farms that have ceased to exist in the last few years have been Osentons ( or Clinkham Farm ) , Whitings , Clements and Flint House . |
| 7 | 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 . |