Example sentences of "be [adj] for the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Praxis , a 165-person concern founded in 1983 , sees the acquisition as a way of growing its business , which has been flat for the last few years . |
| 2 | I have n't been happy for the last few months and when an old girlfriend asked me out I went along and enjoyed myself . |
| 3 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 4 | He 'll be , he 'll be quiet for the first few hours , he wo n't sort , say anything , then he |
| 5 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |
| 6 | ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days . |
| 7 | I was nervous for the first few missions — but once you 'd done it you could cope . |
| 8 | I was fine for the first few pages . |
| 9 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 10 | Then , it was elbow-dodging for the first few hundred yards , but after a mile I found myself in front . |