Example sentences of "last few days [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Leinen is spending her last few days with the children taking them for trips , including to London Zoo and the seaside .
2 To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived .
3 ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner .
4 The Labour leader described the Home Secretary 's comments as ‘ peculiar ’ and insisted that race should remain firmly in the background as a potential issue in the last few days of the campaign .
5 He said the Liberal Democrats had experienced a squeeze in the last few days of the campaign as the Tory message that a vote for the Liberal Democrats would open the door to Labour hit home .
6 He said the Liberal Democrats had experienced a squeeze in the last few days of the campaign as the Tory message that a vote for the Liberal Democrats would open the door to Labour hit home .
7 Adventure holidays are increasingly popular and the brave can test their physical and mental endurance in a number of ways from outward-bound courses where the participants usually spend the last few days of their ‘ holiday ’ building themselves a shelter in a sodden landscape and living off nature , to dog-sledging across the Arctic Circle and learning how to build an igloo on the way .
8 These drawings were always made between the last few days of August and the end of October .
9 All but one of the chiefs took the oath timeously , the exception being the aged McIan Macdonald of Glencoe who delayed until the last few days of 1691 .
10 Sadly , one of the grimmer interpretations of the word ‘ experience ’ loomed in ugly manner over the last few days of the tour and may overshadow some of the good that the trip has produced .
11 Once you have some tan , you can switch to a factor 5–6 , but save lower factors ( nothing lower than 3 or 4 ) until the last few days of a 2-week holiday , if you have a tan .
12 There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data .
13 For the last few days of her life Julia lay in a drugged sleep , free from pain and still managing a faint smile for Pat as he hung over her , gripping her hand .
14 Should not the Government , in the last few days of their existence , bring to bear upon the Iranian Government the utter condemnation that is felt by the people of the United Kingdom for the disgraceful action in imposing a death threat on a British citizen in the capital of the United Kingdom ?
15 Will the Minister give a guarantee in the last few days of his Government that none of those elderly people will have their home repossessed ?
16 Catching the rays of sunshine this variety lights up the shrub border to prolong the last few days of autumn .
17 During the last few days before the event , as spectators arrived from , Ayrshire was busier than it had ever been in its history .
18 Entries are flowing in — a limit of 2000 has been set — but Malcolm Barham , of the race organisers , says things generally hot up in the last few days before the closing date , which is April 10 .
19 The sense of expectancy grows in these last few days before the fulfilment of God 's promise .
20 He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him .
21 In the last few days before the coup , Mossadeq assumed more and more dictatorial powers .
22 Despite the brisk sales reported in the last few days before Christmas , December saw a small decline in retail trade compared with the previous year , according to the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , said on Tuesday that many retailers had reported a disappointing Christmas , although the results were an improvement on recent months and sales in January were expected to be up on a year ago .
23 Appropriately enough , then , the last few days before the book 's appearance were touched with the same rapture that had helped to prompt its creation .
24 The bomb blasts and scares were a major irritation for London retailers as streets were cordoned off and buildings evacuated , but there was strong trading in the last few days before Christmas , now an established feature of the London retail scene .
25 I knew of that from him before he left , for he was going to spend his last few days before the flight actually on the site , refreshing his memory on certain details .
26 For his last few days in France , after Waterloo , the Emperor retired to La Malmaison , which had belonged to Josephine until her death in 1814 and now belonged to Hortense .
27 After all , we have spent these last few days in a very secluded country house .
28 These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery .
29 There , ours there the last few days in it , those two being fucking bad
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