Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] last few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Listening this last few weeks has , for once , been purely for my own pleasure and has embraced numerous ‘ bits and pieces ’ recordings both old ( in origin ) and brand new .
2 ‘ We 've nursed some players through training these last few days , but he 's not one of them . ’
3 Remember , a flexible joint has a margin of safety which can be useful when you are straining to reach those last few millimetres .
4 And it 's been a jolly good roof I will say , it 's not let there 's never been no problems with it in even in this bad weather we 've had these last few years .
5 He said : ‘ I admit I 've hardly slept these last few days .
6 ‘ Have n't we talked these last few days ? ’
7 But she and Matthew had had so many cold steely little tussles these last few weeks over so many small things — like the panelling in the hall and cutting some trees down at the side of the house which she said darkened the drawing-room and which he had gone berserk about — that Sara did not feel she could be obstructive again .
8 ‘ This is where he spent those last few days ? ’ she said .
9 ‘ I think I may safely say that you are in a deal sounder trim these last few weeks . ’
10 It was like watching someone else have that dream we all have : where we 're already late and we 've got to clear these last few things , but every time we try , something else gets in the way .
11 ‘ You know I have n't walked so much during my entire lifetime as I 've walked these last few days , ’ he said with an effort to divert her from her dark thoughts .
12 Look , Bina , what have you been doing these last few days ?
13 It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months .
14 I do hope it works out for him and am sure he has not found these last few months at all easy as he starts his working life .
15 After all , we have spent these last few days in a very secluded country house .
16 Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in .
17 But he added : ‘ That said , I must say I am extremely pessimistic about the future of the plant , given all that I have been hearing these last few days . ’
18 We stared in stunned shock , realising that the pilot must have made one last superhuman effort not to come down right on our heads , but then just could n't manage those last few yards which would have brought them safely onto the runway .
19 That 's why he could end those last few minutes or hours of his life , in pain , but in peace , because he had the word , the assurance , the promise from Christ .
20 He has known little but fighting these last few years , but I think , with the right woman , he could be as gentle and tender a knight as any girl could wish for . ’
21 ‘ Try to remember everything you have learned these last few days .
22 The word underlying these last few pages is ‘ thrift ’ .
23 Suddenly she realized she had loved these last few months .
24 He did n't have to say those last few words .
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