Example sentences of "[pos pn] last few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the train leaves , with an unnatural casualness they will separate with never so much as a pressure of the hand ; others there are who , oblivious of the world around them , stand gazing into each other 's eyes , spending their last few moments clasped in each other 's arms — matching a succession of last kisses — to separate with a look of bewildered agony on their faces . |
| 2 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 3 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 4 | Perhaps , what is more common is that , we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their few minutes . |
| 5 | Hopeful youngsters clashed with old timers playing out their last few seasons in the reserve leagues , which were as competitive as the first-team games and often a lot tougher . |
| 6 | The nature of this particular situation added an emotional element that made the task even more difficult , and many subjective statements were made about the transformation , statements that appeared to reflect the concern of the analysts for the recipients of the service ( for instance , making old people comfortable in their last few years , and providing caring services for terminally old people ) . |
| 7 | While other holidaymakers end up changing their last few pesetas and returning to bills on the doormat , bronzed Antonia was laughing all the way to her agent Max Clifford . |
| 8 | Another objective for dealers in their last few weeks is to rake in all commissions due to them , and to avoid doing much work as further monies may not be paid . |
| 9 | Sometimes a rabbit can be shot in a burrow entrance but , even if such a shot is successful and the rabbit is killed , there is a strong possibility that with its last few movements the rabbit will kick its way far enough down the burrow to make capture difficult . |
| 10 | As we speed nearer and nearer , I hunch up closer to the windscreen to see every poignant detail of its last few seconds . |
| 11 | Do not miss the Felice Varini exhibition at the Jennifer Flay gallery , now in its last few days ( closing 7 June ) ; Varini is followed by the American Karen Kilimnik , who will be setting up a large installation . |
| 12 | ENGLAND face a final trial by spin as their winter tour enters its last few days . |
| 13 | Oh I 'm sorry , but there was only that one which is all , it 's got her latest stuff on it , I 'm not really keen on anything else , it 's got those last , you know the sort of her last few records of it , on it I should say I did n't know there was any others around , when I told you I wanted the Cher one , it was the one that was out now not the old ones . |
| 14 | Mandy had shaved several years from her life , and put that she 'd spent her last few summers working as a waitress at the Banff Springs Hotel . |
| 15 | Below , in the shop , Sushi was working normally , unaware of the finality with which her partner was planning her last few hours in England . |
| 16 | Although she will in fact serve her last few shifts at the new community hospital at Treloar 's , it was her wish to hold her retirement party at Alton General Hospital before it closed . |
| 17 | She blew him a kiss ; her last few words , with the door open , had been whispered . |
| 18 | During her last few weeks , Betty was shown round the factory at Elderslie , the factory to which all her tonnes of yarn had been sent but which she had never seen . |
| 19 | Mrs Leinen is spending her last few days with the children taking them for trips , including to London Zoo and the seaside . |
| 20 | When he looked for his money , he found that he was down to his last few shillings . |
| 21 | His father would now and again telephone me saying that David was down to his last few pounds and that he worried about money . |
| 22 | He 's literally down to his last few pounds |
| 23 | Disgusted by the reaction to his last few films , Dustin locked himself in his New York home and became a virtual recluse . |
| 24 | He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature : his last few weeks before his death from cancer , which he fought uncomplainingly and with great courage , were spent in devising an entertainment , ‘ The French Revolution through British Eyes ’ , for the RSL . |
| 25 | How can a dealer spend his last few weeks in his present firm most productively ? |
| 26 | For his last few days in France , after Waterloo , the Emperor retired to La Malmaison , which had belonged to Josephine until her death in 1814 and now belonged to Hortense . |
| 27 | Dr Jim Howe , Tony 's doctor , said : ‘ His parents said how peaceful their son has looked over his last few days and how relieved they are that he is finally at rest . ’ |
| 28 | I knew of that from him before he left , for he was going to spend his last few days before the flight actually on the site , refreshing his memory on certain details . |
| 29 | In his last few years Kuypers and Gabriella Ugolini made use of viruses which travel into the nervous system and multiply in a pathway so that they cross nervous junctions and spread detectably along a whole connected system : a quite novel labelling technique whose full potential now remains to be realised . |
| 30 | I wanted to live awhile among those who had been part of his childhood and his last few years . |