Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] few [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past few months the Executive Committee has been considering most carefully a proposal of the Membership Working Party that in future all teachers , in addition to their membership subscription , should be asked to pay an Affiliation Fee . |
| 2 | In the past few months the complaints from my area from my customers that they are disgusted with the service they have received from Sports . |
| 3 | In the past few weeks the government has once again blocked an attempt to give disabled people legal protection against discrimination . |
| 4 | Has my right hon. Friend noticed in the past few days the widespread support for our plans to seek better-quality services from councils ? |
| 5 | IN THE past few years the laws forbidding the sale of alcohol to teenagers have been weakened , in the sense that they are neither as just nor as realistic as they were . |
| 6 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | In the past few years the appeal system has been successfully used to overcome the resistance of reluctant local authorities , and development has tended to proceed on an ad hoc basis with new centres sited where developers can acquire land easily rather than on the basis of any strategic plan . |
| 8 | On the other hand , in the past few years the number of students in further education colleges in Wales has increased very considerably . |
| 9 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 10 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |