Example sentences of "[prep] the few remaining [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I hope we 're both mature enough to treat each other with civility and respect for the few remaining days we 're forced to spend together . ’ |
| 2 | Opposition Members would welcome the opportunity to debate Government and Opposition policies during the general election campaign , but , given that the Prime Minister does not have the guts to call an election , can you please ensure that , during the few remaining weeks of the Government 's period of office , Prime Minister 's Question Time will be used to ask the Prime Minister questions about Government policy ? |
| 3 | BONN — As the net of restrictions which prevents East Germans leaving their country grows tighter , the flow of refugees through the few remaining gaps continues steadily , writes Patricia Clough . |
| 4 | ‘ In addition to being one of the few remaining commons in the area Newtown Common is a very valuable home for wildlife . ’ |
| 5 | We stop the car below the Blackwall Basin , in front of one of the few remaining terraces . |
| 6 | Working with environmentalist groups , the Guarani Indians argue that Brazil can not afford to lose any more of the few remaining areas of Atlantic rainforest , of which only 5 per cent is intact . |
| 7 | On the wall at the end of the Long Room hangs one of the few remaining copies of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic , which was read aloud at the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916 . |
| 8 | In June , one of the few remaining sections of single line on the main road in Croydon was doubled , that between Aberdeen Road and Parker Road , South End . |
| 9 | The Univel Inc joint venture of Novell Inc and soon-to-be-Novell subsidiary Unix System Laboratories Inc yesterday went onto the desktop Unix warpath by cutting prices for the desktop and application server versions of UnixWare , ‘ taking away one of the few remaining constraints to the rapid market adoption of Unix system as a client-server system ’ for iAPX-86-based computers . |
| 10 | Sea dumping was put forward as one of the few remaining ways to halt further pollution of land and air from landfills and incineration . |
| 11 | A marvellous stylistic contrast to the intricacy and sophistication of these magnificent Court carpets can be seen in the delightful Marby rug — named after the Swedish village in whose church it was found — which is one of the few remaining examples of the first Anatolian or Caucasian rugs to be brought into the West . |
| 12 | The Fund also wished to cut the public wage bill ( increase unemployment ) ; lift import controls ( allowing an influx of consumer goods , thereby undermining local production ) ; privatize national industries at outrageously discounted prices ; raise interest rates ( also hitting the competitiveness of local producers ) ; and remove exchange controls ( ‘ so that a privileged few could legitimately drain the country of the few remaining dregs of foreign reserves ’ ) . |
| 13 | Mid Essex Mental Health Services is one of the few remaining branches of the NHS in the county still answerable directly to its local health authority rather than having trust status . |
| 14 | LIONEL HAMPTON One of the few remaining links with the classic era , Hamp played drums for Louis Armstrong as long ago as 1930 ; later in that decade his pulsating vibes gave Benny Goodman 's great quartet much of its joie de vivre . |
| 15 | Will he also explain why we have one of the few remaining Governments who still refuse to give legal protection to workers when they take legitimate and justified industrial action ? |
| 16 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 17 | Visible now only in the panoramic view , the young woman appeared to be throwing something towards the few remaining Counsellors . |
| 18 | He dodged past the few remaining couples who still danced , then turned into the supper room . |
| 19 | Even with the few remaining assets , there is very little margin to work on . |
| 20 | He was also obsessed by an imagined threat from the few remaining ex-revolutionaries . |
| 21 | It also happens to have very valuable timber , and the Chilean government is anxious to profit from the dead trees that are interspersed with living ones in the few remaining areas of forest where alerce still occurs . |
| 22 | Slowly constrained by muscles mostly in the grip of rigor mortis , the zombies advanced inexorably on the few remaining Marines . |
| 23 | Outside in the howling , flobs of rain were twisting and twining around the few remaining hutches . |
| 24 | Kislev was already defended by the few remaining Kislevites and a large Dwarf army which had marched northwards once the fall of Praag became known in Karaz a Karak . |