Example sentences of "[pron] last few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Below , in the shop , Sushi was working normally , unaware of the finality with which her partner was planning her last few hours in England . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mrs Leinen is spending her last few days with the children taking them for trips , including to London Zoo and the seaside . |
| 6 | How can a dealer spend his last few weeks in his present firm most productively ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These days he has plenty of time to run the legs off his dog Quintus in nearby Richmond Park , just outside London , to indulge his hobby of stamp collecting and just to read novels , something that went by the board during his last few years at the Foreign Office , familiarly known as the FO . |