Example sentences of "[num ord] few [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only reduce the painful uncertainty and bewilderment of those first few days by learning relevant information quickly . |
| 2 | THE stock market received a lift today on news of a cut in German interest rates which raised hopes of a similar reduction in this country over the next few weeks by Chancellor Kenneth Clarke . |
| 3 | ‘ The details of how the teams from both organisations will integrate will be decided over the next few months by a project team made up of staff from AEA and Warren Spring . ’ |
| 4 | The new standard is the result of much hard work over the last few years by manufacturers , contractors and specifiers . |
| 5 | Across the open space one could look down on the town , a busy , self-important place boosted in the last few years by highrise office blocks full of income-tax men and VAT clerks . |
| 6 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 7 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 8 | Mr Major said that not only had the Budget extended the export credit guarantee scheme but : ‘ Mr Lamont has also cut premiums over the last few months by as much as 27 per cent to help exporters . ’ |
| 9 | George waved and Maxim was released to make the last few yards by himself . |