Example sentences of "[prep] [art] previous few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 2 | To become an agent , these social secretaries simply have to reverse their roles with the agents who have been selling them acts for the previous few years . |
| 3 | But the second games started , Merton would move , striding like a supermarket trolley attendant into the ring and ignoring all the ‘ rules ’ of improvisational comedy that the other clever-clever types had been carefully developing for the previous few years . |
| 4 | The Annual Report for 1904–5 of the STA suggests that trade had been exceptionally busy for the previous few years . |
| 5 | For the previous few years the soap factory had been losing business because of imports of synthetic detergents , mainly through Lever Bros , the local branch of Unilever . |
| 6 | A characteristic of automatic performance is an apparent loss of memory for what has been done during the previous few moments . |
| 7 | According to official statistics , between 1980 and 1987 30 million primary and middle-school ‘ dropouts ’ had been recorded with the numbers rising more rapidly during the previous few years ( CD 7.12. 88 ) . |
| 8 | Somewhere inside himself he felt disgust at the events of the previous few hours . |
| 9 | Relaxed and without the miserable depression of the previous few evenings , Julia pulled herself out of the water , rubbed herself vigorously with the hard , thin towel Annunziata had left there for her and went to dress . |
| 10 | By thus reproducing arguments in favour of unequal pay which had a long pedigree , Amelia McLean 's article showed that she was either unable or unwilling to realize that , apart from anything else , the introduction of Monotype machines within the previous few years had completely redistributed the cards . |
| 11 | It was doubly ironic for Coventry who in the previous few minutes had attacked with more conviction than at any time throughout the game . |
| 12 | Context made the meaning clear for the following words with multiple meanings in the previous few paragraphs : book , original , form , still , familiar , type , tends , well , lost , sounds , can , found , links , present . |
| 13 | The General Health Questionnaire ( GHQ ) is a 30-item psychiatric screening instrument which collects data about symptoms in the previous few weeks . |
| 14 | Its dissatisfaction at several matters that had bruised West Indies cricket in the previous few months , on and off the field , was vented in the angry reception accorded Richie Richardson in the first match at Kingston 's Sabina Park . |
| 15 | This last item did much to restore the confidence that seemed to have deserted me in the previous few months . |
| 16 | Citing church sources , the Western media reported early in 1990 that 12 Roman Catholic bishops had been arrested in the previous few months , including Mgr Antoine Zhang Guangyi , 83 , who had already served 30 years in prison . |
| 17 | But for the moment she had to concentrate on dipping a formal curtsey to the Queen , a consideration which had greatly exercised her mind in the previous few days . |
| 18 | Fifth , class action suits mean that a shareholder with just one share can sue on behalf of the entire body of shareholders and , finally , the widely misused Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act allows any firm that has been charged with fraud more than three times in the previous few years , whether or not it is found guilty , to be perceived as a corrupt organisation and therefore liable for triple damages . |
| 19 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
| 20 | ‘ She 'd have been more than concerned if she 'd known what he 'd been up to over the previous few weeks ! ’ said Harris drily . |
| 21 | The official was a friend of mine , and had done me some good turns over the previous few months ; most of which time I had spent in this same hotel . |
| 22 | Interethnic relations , Gorbachev conceded in his speech to the 28th Party Congress in July 1990 , had deteriorated since the congress before it , and especially over the previous few months . |
| 23 | OMON troops had been blamed for a series of attacks on over 20 Baltic border posts over the previous few months . |
| 24 | The government had also noted the proliferation of schismatic religious movements over the previous few years . |
| 25 | The higher income of married couples and men living alone was the combined result of the continued involvement of men in the labour market after the statutory retirement age , although this had decreased sharply over the previous few years , and of the receipt of occupational pensions . |
| 26 | By 1914 the number of Chinese boarding houses was reckoned over the previous few years to have increased by stages from 13 to 300 to 400 . |
| 27 | Over the previous few years capitalists had been hit by the European wage explosions and a general worsening of industrial relations . |
| 28 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 29 | In any event , relate the prevailing weather conditions to the conditions over the previous few days , and make your decision of if , or where , to fish on that basis . |