Example sentences of "last few " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
2 | The explosive prices for Teddy Bears in the last few years indicate how a market can be created , in this case by a mix of merit and nostalgia . |
3 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
4 | After the patience of the last few years , he wrote , why this sudden impatience ? |
5 | During the last few years there has been an increase in swinging and ground looping accidents and these must be analysed to see if there are new lessons to be learned . |
6 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
7 | Cutting down on your drinking , even during the last few months of your pregnancy , will help your baby to be healthy at birth . |
8 | Remember , a flexible joint has a margin of safety which can be useful when you are straining to reach those last few millimetres . |
9 | Lean your body forwards to squeeze the last few centimetres of range out of the punch . |
10 | Blenching at the last few miles , shivering as sweat and dew ran down their backs , they turned into Donald Gillies 's yard at Camserney sawmill . |
11 | Think of these last few days . |
12 | British Rail had introduced new safety measures over the last few months , but they could not legislate against criminal vandalism |
13 | While the quality of play , and competition , at the top end of the women 's game has increased superbly in the last few years , the drop off after the first half dozen or so , is still equally evident . |
14 | Dedicated souls have , in the last few years , congregated at the Mile End wall in east London — a trip that takes your correspondent half an hour ; a length of time that sees most Sheffielders halfway to their first route at Stanage . |
15 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
16 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
17 | Not so High Rocks , whose owners have steadily raised their admission charges in the last few years , threatened climbers with access restrictions , and put nothing at all back into the maintenance of the rocks , save to enclose them in a sturdy , reinforced fence . |
18 | Within the last few years , physicists have come within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero using a new technique called laser entrapment . |
19 | Chaos and fractal imagery have hit the technical and popular imagination over the last few years , and the King 's DSP group is working on a number of applications for this new branch of mathematics . |
20 | CB is also most unlikely to reach its ambitious goal of generating half its earnings outside France by 1992 , despite having started 20 new businesses in Europe over the last few years . |
21 | Tall and slightly stooped , Yusupov normally shows a shy good humour in his conversation , but he has looked increasingly serious these last few days . |
22 | Because Britain has been covered , during the last few weeks , with record levels of toxic and other dangerous substances . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Simon Griffiths , a hospital spokesman , said last night : ‘ Mrs Barnett 's general condition has improved over the last few hours and her liver is functioning well . ’ |
25 | The party leadership wanted to ban all strikes because it is terrified of an upsurge in Russian and Ukrainian working-class militancy which , it correctly realises , could be more dangerous to the regime than all the ethnic disturbances of the last few years combined . |
26 | The last few years suggest that if there is a majority in the land it has been an anti-Labour majority . |
27 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
28 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
29 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
30 | However , many cars built within the last few years have hardened valve seats , or alloy cylinder heads that need little ( simply a retune ) or no modification to use unleaded petrol . |