Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] the [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because what you choose to do in the next few minutes could decide whether a child will live or die . |
| 2 | The apparently calm , almost holiday mood of this Bosnian couple disguises the sheer terror they 've endured over the past few weeks . |
| 3 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
| 4 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 5 | Security guard Ed Collett , 32 , from Highbury , north London , said : ‘ It 's the best film I 've seen in the past few years . |
| 6 | ‘ In the meantime you are free to do whatever you wish to do over the next few weeks . |
| 7 | You 've worked in the last few years with Prince . |
| 8 | That 's why it used to say please ignore this letter if you 've paid in the last few days . |
| 9 | Individual colleges and institutes vary both according to the proportion of advanced work which they provide and also the types of courses which they offer , depending partly on the nature of the institutions which went to make them up and partly on the way in which they have developed in the past few years . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We have noticed over the last few months at Cadogan Travel seem to be noticeably more expensive than the other travel agents used by Christian Aid . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now try to change the following to improper fractions : unc As you have seen in the last few questions , improper fractions Numerator are " top heavy " . |
| 16 | The aim of this research is to investigate the role of money income targets for a small open economy such as the UK , and their relationship with policies designed to avoid fluctuations in the exchange rate of the magnitude we have seen in the last few years . |
| 17 | Some costs have risen in the past few years . ’ |
| 18 | We have Adopted in the last few years , the Modular Education System . |
| 19 | I mean , now I 've got several hundred pounds resting on it if I have to walk in the last few miles I will , but er pride I 'm sure I 'll keep going . |
| 20 | They look around this area , they see the factories that have closed in the past few years , they know how many people are out of work . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The man 's problems have intensified in the last few weeks and it 's reached the stage where he 's late at least three mornings a week now . ’ |
| 22 | The historian-punter would be sitting in bonds ( which have rallied in the past few months ) waiting patiently to switch back to equities , starting cautiously in the middle of this year , and so to ride the bull market of the mid-1990s . |
| 23 | That removes the Government 's mask which they have worn over the past few months as they have tried to pursue the idea of cheap gas . |
| 24 | They seem to be allowing the targeting of young people through advertising , but , because of the tax regime that they have introduced in the past few years , they seem to be exporting jobs in the tobacco industry . |
| 25 | Despite all the nuances we have introduced in the last few pages , there is no other way to put it . |
| 26 | Think of a situation , event or physical symptom you have experienced in the past few days . |
| 27 | The Mothers ' Front is demanding information about more than 40,000 people it says have disappeared in the past few years . |
| 28 | Unlike the somewhat parochial hip hop magazines that have proliferated during the last few years , Vibe 's vibe ( assessed through a preview issue , which may be misleading ) aims for a mixed appeal . |
| 29 | Everything has obviously been well prepared both technically and musically ( not the remotest suspicion of a studio run-through ) , and the orchestra sound really fired up , which is more than one can say about a disturbingly large number of recordings which have emerged over the last few years ! |
| 30 | I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . |