Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] last few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony said he had felt happier after discharge from hospital and that his father had been less critical and more supportive during the last few days . |
| 2 | But when he suddenly took ill and returned to Hollywood to undergo surgery for lung cancer , his son Christopher helped polish up some of the last few scenes . |
| 3 | It had been made clear in the last few days , he said , with low-paid workers in North Ayrshire having their wages cut to join a trust while senior managers at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh awarded themselves BMW cars . |
| 4 | It had become increasingly claustrophobic in the last few weeks . |
| 5 | Staff turnover has been high in the last few years as school closure has loomed closer . |
| 6 | Three other people had also said they were interested in the last few days . |
| 7 | Now of course , some people might say well the Iranians er have n't covered themselves with glory one way and another in the last few years , and that of course , is true . |
| 8 | It had become increasingly clear over the last few days that the anger of East Germans is focused on the Communist Party and that it can only be a question of time before the party has to relinquish its leading role and allow political competition . |
| 9 | Scotland must take their chances in London against a side that has been the most consistent for the last few years if they are to come away with the spoils of victory . |
| 10 | He looked around the room where she had spent much of the last few years . |
| 11 | Jackie Aitchison , chairman of the consortium , has spent much of the last few weeks in talks with potential partners . |
| 12 | Cairns added : ‘ I 've learned so much in the last few weeks and coping with failure and disappointment is one of them . ’ |
| 13 | He had heard ( and drunk ) so much in the last few days that his mind was a haze of impressions and conjectures which refused to sort themselves out or lead in any one direction . |
| 14 | ‘ Our sales figures have been fairly consistent over the last few months . |
| 15 | Yet he was often in danger of winning the $55,000 ( £31,250 ) first prize until he found it just too much over the last few miles . |
| 16 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 17 | Yes , magnetic units claim success , and we 've reported on many of these in the last few months . |
| 18 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
| 19 | Praxis , a 165-person concern founded in 1983 , sees the acquisition as a way of growing its business , which has been flat for the last few years . |
| 20 | He had been feeling a bit better for the last few days : He had repaired the fence between the Britches and Ron Paget 's yard , filled two black plastic sacks with rubbish and had embarked on a vigorous assault upon dead and decaying trees . |
| 21 | Welfare fraud squads have increased for example from 800 to 1,500 in the last few years , and in 1983 the regional fraud teams ( 10 groups of 9 ) were developed , saving , it was argued in 1987 , 55 million . |
| 22 | In the coming year , the Government will also face its greatest crisis over public sector borrowing , having to borrow too much to pay the interest on its debts — the trap that caught so many in the last few years . |
| 23 | Erm and I have to er pick up the point made opposite that the protection has been pretty good over the last few years without the policy . |
| 24 | ‘ George Graham has been very supportive in the last few years , during which I 've come through a lot of problems . |
| 25 | With regard to point ( c ) , I had been a teensy bit lazy in the last few maths lessons , not having worked on the set tasks with much enthusiasm at all . |
| 26 | It has also been suggested that the Bond albedo was lower within the last few hundred years and that the atmosphere is still cooling as Jupiter adjusts to its new higher albedo . |
| 27 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
| 28 | There was indeed information given to Labour on this but that application proceeded by the Council and I think some of the officers have omitted that in the last few weeks . |
| 29 | I wish that we had been able during the last few months to persuade our European colleagues that we are not arguing just for a narrow British position . |
| 30 | Mary Ann was blind during the last few years of her life , and it had the quite understandable effect of making her very emotional ; she only had one set of grandchildren , and she made such a fuss of them : ‘ My Siddy ’ , she would say , as she stroked her young grandson 's cheek with tears in her eyes . |