Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [num ord] 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 . |