Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just that he 's seemed a bit out of sorts this past few days . ’ |
| 2 | A series of police operations in Istanbul , Ankara and Adana , mainly directed against safe houses of Turkey 's principal urban guerrilla organisation , Devrimci Sol , in which casualties were high with few prisoners taken , fuelled allegations that the police were shooting to kill with out giving a warning or an opportunity to surrender . |
| 3 | Economies dependent on few commodities |
| 4 | His scale of values was that of few men , and it is hard to point to any of his successors who carried on his work . |
| 5 | Women had all the constraints of family life to cope with ; children at school , shopping and housekeeping , but no sympathy was expressed by male members of the group as to the comparative hardness of the women 's lives in terms of demands on them , such as few hours of sleep . |
| 6 | What Alianor had failed to realize was that , under the sombre cloak , she was wearing a new and quite beautiful pale-pink gown trimmed with dark fur — a gown such as few maidservants would set eyes on in a lifetime , much less wear . |
| 7 | Organisational structures are simple with few layers and few people in senior executive positions . |
| 8 | Australian conservationists these past few decades have been worried and at times appalled by the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef by crown of thorns starfish . |
| 9 | I 've had terrible dreams these past few nights , you know . |
| 10 | It has been chilly these past few nights . |
| 11 | She 'd had difficulty in sleeping these past few nights , although she was exhausted from trying to clean up the house after she finished work each day . |
| 12 | But that hurt is nothing compared to what the powerful blond-haired midfielder has endured these past few months . |
| 13 | No , no , I have been away on business for these past few months . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Being so happy with him … and just thinking about him … over these past few months , should have told me . |
| 15 | She felt the sting of treacherous tears , her enemy in these past few months , lurking , waiting to consume her , and she hastily took another mouthful from the bottle , biting her lips , slightly numb from cold and champagne , to stop the tears spilling down her cheeks and overwhelming her completely . |
| 16 | She knew what was to come ; she had seen that look in her friend 's eyes too many times these past few months . |
| 17 | SUMMERCHILD : Well , I 've noticed it quite a lot these past few months . |
| 18 | Those statistics , more than the shuffling , lethargic charade of sparring he 's staged under canvas as well as on canvas these past few days , have made Holyfield-Bowe the first heavyweight title fight to open at evens with bookies since Liston-Patterson in 1962 . |
| 19 | IF Evander Holyfield 's fists prove as fast and slick as the promoters ' tongues have been these past few days , his world heavyweight title defence against Riddick Bowe tonight promises to be a masterpiece . |
| 20 | ‘ These past few days have been a living hell for you and for me . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been watching you these past few days , and you 're incredibly tense . |
| 22 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 23 | IT HAS become clear these past few years that London 's investment houses are rather worse at managing their own affairs than their clients ' . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd like our friends to know we were n't entirely inactive these past few years , ’ said Masha with a smile . |
| 25 | That 's a sprinter 's example , but it 's the same for any athletic performance , as I 've just been reminded by watching the astonishing improvement of Ray Davidson in these past few years . |
| 26 | ‘ Naturally these past few years it has n't been worn . |
| 27 | I have spent a deal of time these past few years on cultivating you , submitting you to a species of metaphysical topiary , clipping , pruning , stunting . |
| 28 | These past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality . |
| 29 | Lou Macari 's been called … his football life … has been on a roller coaster these past few seasons … hitting the heights at Swindon … crashing into the law courts … running around Wembley with the cup … |
| 30 | Faced with the poll tax , most of its modern citizenry have sounded distinctly unphilosophical these past few weeks . |