Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we 've been through in the last few years has brought us a lot closer , and that 's part of the reason I 'm getting out of the rat race of international cricket … certainly for a few years , anyway . |
| 2 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |
| 3 | She knew that her presence and unwavering support was as important to the outcome as all the physical and psychological preparation that Lennox had been through in the past few months . |
| 4 | Twenty-five years loyal Service to Douglas Reyburn — that is what has been achieved by Mrs Isobel Tannock and Hugh Donaghy who are now amongst the special few who have each contributed a quarter century to the success of their company . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you going to arrange to be away for the next few days ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I plan to be around over the next few weeks while we get this new image launched , and we expect you to be very visible . |
| 7 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |
| 8 | A sense of injustice therefore existed in some schools which , for whatever reasons , were not among the chosen few . |
| 9 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 10 | And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better . |
| 11 | It could be another sign that EASE is in for a tough few months , ironic when its annual report due to be published soon , will show that it made its first modest profit in 1992 . |
| 12 | But in sub-Saharan Africa , for example , television is only for the privileged few , whereas radio surpasses all other media in terms of audience . |
| 13 | It is only in the past few years that a good understanding of these types of collision has emerged , and it is only a year since Tiesinga et al . |
| 14 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 15 | It is only in the last few years , then , that new IT , mainly in the form of the microcomputer , has started to play a part in formal education . |
| 16 | Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed . |
| 17 | But it is only in the last few weeks that news of Kevin 's death has reached American troops still in the Middle East . |
| 18 | That is why during the next few weeks we shall be embarked on considering the extent to which we can change it to the benefit of all . |