Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems little chance of one of the party 's senior professionals stepping down in the next few months to create a by-election for the Tory chairman . |
| 2 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 3 | They seemed to have everything in command at Pickie on Saturday , but let the BLI come storming back over the last few ends to win on three of the four rinks . |
| 4 | I have n't noticed Reg writing much for the past few minutes , though . |
| 5 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 6 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 7 | Fact is , I do n't want them to see what 's going on in the next few hours . |
| 8 | At the same time levels of public expenditure on the railways have been declining steadily over the past few years in the run-up to an expected privatisation and are now well below those of Britain 's Continental neighbours . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know exactly what we have up there , or what stuff we are likely to be sending up in the next few years … but I 'll take side bets on orbital weapons , either ready or in the pipe-line . ’ |
| 10 | The grounding could be the beginning of the end for the Wessex — with a gradual phasing out over the next few years : |
| 11 | Many of the offices are in the West End of London , where rentals are still growing , and there are quite a few rent reviews coming up in the next few months . |
| 12 | Yes I do erm Peter , it 's a smashing book erm very smart indeed and erm it 's it 'll be a really nice thing to have , it 'll be very useful this season for checking up some of the two year olds who are now three year olds , coming up in the next few months . |
| 13 | As I was saying earlier , paper qualifications can not guarantee to exclude the kind of evil that we have been reading about in the past few weeks . |
| 14 | And that 's an arrangement which will be carrying on over the next few years . |
| 15 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 16 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |
| 17 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
| 18 | These are aspects we will be exploring precisely over the next few weeks and months . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't know in detail what these would involve , but they are aspects we will be exploring precisely over the next few weeks and months . ’ |
| 20 | Jim concluded gloomily that in his view we should go on sliding downhill for the next few years . |
| 21 | For this month 's design , as with all projects where the solution has n't come as quick as a flash of inspiration , I assembled in front of me everything that I had found interesting or been working on over the past few months . |