Example sentences of "[adv] for the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim concluded gloomily that in his view we should go on sliding downhill for the next few years . |
| 2 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 3 | only for the first few days |
| 4 | Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep . |
| 5 | Russia 's debt problems were highlighted in a World Bank study released in late September which indicated that the country would need some US$20,000 million of external financial resources annually for the next few years to sustain economic reforms . |
| 6 | LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed . |
| 7 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 8 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 9 | So for the next few days this column will present several different ways of assessing corporate performance for 1989 . |
| 10 | So for the next few months she used a variant of the tactics she had tried to perfect with her parents : do what you 're told and keep your head down . |
| 11 | It may also be useful to have a risk management consultant in for the first few meetings , if only to kick-start the process and provide a few , objective ‘ what if ? ’ questions . |
| 12 | I 've been thinking it 's needed some more in for the last few meals . |
| 13 | The therapist agreed to see David daily for the next few days in order to provide him with support . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you going to arrange to be away for the next few days ? ’ |
| 15 | Just for the first few seconds she was back in the days after Hugh 's desertion . |
| 16 | But what I would like to do is to keep him here , just for the next few hours . |
| 17 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 18 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 19 | ‘ I suggest that we try to put our differences aside for the next few hours and get on with the business at hand . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 21 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 22 | Events lined up for the next few weeks include Indian dancer Bisakha Sarker performing as part of a Verbal Images event , a European Youth Dance Night , The Cholmondleys and V-Tol Dance Company . |
| 23 | Watch the fish carefully for the next few hours — especially if there are other fish already in the tank . |
| 24 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 25 | Well for the first few days I found enough energy to take an occasional dip in the pool and play a leisurely game of bowls . |
| 26 | In fact , the present strength in depth of the England set-up and the fine organisation nationally bodes extremely well for the next few seasons . |
| 27 | When the goslings hatch , they will recognize the first moving object they see as the creature to follow around for the next few weeks . |
| 28 | Only a few , largely of the younger members , consider that at least for the first few years after an election , the House as a whole should keep a wary eye on the government and seek to support or influence its policy irrespective of the line taken by the official Opposition . |
| 29 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 30 | This further increased its authority and enabled it to keep control over events , at least for the next few months . |