Example sentences of "[det] last few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman 's mentioned your name so often this last few days , we 've started counting ! ’ |
| 2 | Listening this last few weeks has , for once , been purely for my own pleasure and has embraced numerous ‘ bits and pieces ’ recordings both old ( in origin ) and brand new . |
| 3 | do a bit of shopping so yeah , I have n't been doing that this last few weeks but , any |
| 4 | It is what the whole nation has worked for this last few years . ’ |
| 5 | Mind you , you say it 's too cold , this last few years , you know we 're not being , oh we had some snow last year did n't we ? |
| 6 | but now this last few years we , it 's a lot warmer winter than we , than we remember at the beginning |
| 7 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 8 | These last few bits are then specified by testing various conditions in the processor . |
| 9 | To those who first heard the narrative in its finished form the significance of these last few stories must have been abundantly plain . |
| 10 | The word underlying these last few pages is ‘ thrift ’ . |
| 11 | Despite her defiant words , though , she had the feeling that she had made a bad mistake during these last few minutes . |
| 12 | It was like watching someone else have that dream we all have : where we 're already late and we 've got to clear these last few things , but every time we try , something else gets in the way . |
| 13 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 14 | ‘ Bit off colour these last few months , ’ he 'd tell visitors , ‘ but I 'll soon trot out sound . ’ |
| 15 | Anyway , talking about changing tempers , yours has been in and out with the tide these last few months . |
| 16 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 17 | It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months . |
| 18 | That 's where she 's been spending most of her time these last few months . ’ |
| 19 | That 's probably why I 've wanted you so much these last few months . |
| 20 | I have been someone else these last few months ; now I have to learn to be myself again . |
| 21 | Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in . |
| 22 | I do hope it works out for him and am sure he has not found these last few months at all easy as he starts his working life . |
| 23 | Robyn knew now that these last few months , the pretence , the false serenity , had done her little good . |
| 24 | Suddenly she realized she had loved these last few months . |
| 25 | Nor the samples that the postman has kindly left on the doorstep these last few years , thereby avoiding the abuse I was wont to hurl from the bedroom window at anything that made a noise before 8.30am . |
| 26 | She knew she had been brought up these last few years with her Aunt Alice and Uncle Stan because of the instability at home . |
| 27 | But during these last few years she had felt tired , weary . |
| 28 | In this climate , it was only within these last few years that serious restoration work was initiated . |
| 29 | I 've missed having sheep here these last few years . ’ |
| 30 | He 's got so much older these last few years . ’ |