Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the [adj] few " in BNC.
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1 | My legs are shaded by the dust which has gathered over the past few days , so that the contrast is like a Coppertone ad , with the puppy pulling a little girl 's knickers off . |
2 | The Detachment Commander , a Captain and Ammunition Technical Officer ( ATO ) in the Royal Ordnance Corps , is busy writing up reports for the couple of incidents the team has attended during the preceding few days . |
3 | ‘ All the money that Sheikh Osman has used in the past few weeks in his war against the Copts is money that you have given him . ’ |
4 | Interest has intensified in the past few years , encouraged by the scarcity of draughting skills , tough markets and the tumbling costs of CAD . |
5 | The rate of ozone depletion in the Antarctic has slowed in the past few years , but the researchers say that their model predicts " a return to more rapid depletion during the next four years as the solar minimum is approached . " |
6 | It was only recently a town that offered waged work for women , though much of that has disappeared in the past few years , and it was never a town that invited black workers . |
7 | ‘ Before I return to London , I 'd like to propose a strategy , should Elinor ever again be ill , to prevent the problems that Buzz has experienced during the past few weeks . ’ |
8 | In my local hospital in Withington , the number of beds for the elderly has decreased in the past few years from 140 beds to barely 20 . |
9 | It is perhaps because of an effort to buck the trend towards an insufferable and market-conscious cleverness that we are witnessing an attempt amongst more committed narrators to seek out a way of dealing directly with the emotions , without all the paraphernalia of intrigue and description that has accumulated over the past few years . |
10 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that this is not something that has arisen in the past few days , but has been carefully negotiated by the Government over many weeks ? |
11 | The evidence that such a reaction does actually occur in humans , most markedly in individuals with low stomach acidity , has strengthened in the past few years . |
12 | Will he give an assurance that he will sustain the generous funding of Northern Arts that he has managed in the past few years ? |
13 | The apparently calm , almost holiday mood of this Bosnian couple disguises the sheer terror they 've endured over the past few weeks . |
14 | Security guard Ed Collett , 32 , from Highbury , north London , said : ‘ It 's the best film I 've seen in the past few years . |
15 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
16 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
17 | They were new shoes but already scuffed and dusty from the amount of walking he had done in the past few days . |
18 | He spent his time putting down on odd scraps of vellum his different thoughts on what he had learnt over the past few weeks . |
19 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 ? |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Some costs have risen in the past few years . ’ |
26 | 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 . ’ |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Think of a situation , event or physical symptom you have experienced in the past few days . |