Example sentences of "[pron] for the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 2 | I think you 'd better work with me for the next few days , or if I 'm not here , then with one of my staff nurses . |
| 3 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 4 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 5 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 6 | The subject of travel concessions has been a controversial one for the last few months . |
| 7 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 8 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 9 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 10 | In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then … |
| 11 | Modigliani moved in to be with her for the last few days and at the end of November Jeanne entered the Nice Maternity Hospital . |
| 12 | Thus it is that the Tamar , beautiful as the nymph whose name she bears , winds her way from the rugged north coast between the hills , to be joined by the Tavy , flowing from Dartmoor to join her for the last few miles to the sea , while the luckless Torridge flows ever northward in vain pursuit of Tamara 's beauty . |
| 13 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 14 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 15 | Keep it in the quarantine tank , cease medication and keep an eye on it for the next few months . |
| 16 | All junior pupils will be involved in the planting and each of the five school houses will be responsible for a section , taking care of it for the next few years . |
| 17 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |