Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sleep-drugged figures stumble quietly around their bivouacs , feeling for the last few items of rain-sodden kit to stow in their bergens . |
| 32 | For the last few weeks the baby inside her had been making itself felt . |
| 33 | As harvest time was drawing to a close and autumn would soon be upon them , Tamar admitted what she had tried to deny for the last few weeks . |
| 34 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 35 | Managing director Michel Apchin confirmed takeover rumours , saying ‘ We have been in negotiations for the last few weeks with a group that is not French . |
| 36 | He was so depressed , poor boy , at falling in the first place — all Langleys ride as if they were born to it — and then at not being able to return to Cambridge for the last few weeks of term , and his aunt was quite at her wit 's end to know what to do with him . |
| 37 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 38 | He therefore has been living with friends , sleeping on their floors , for the last few weeks , because he 's complied explicitly with the conditions of his bail . |
| 39 | He 's therefore been stuck , living on er friends ' floors for the last few weeks , not being able to go back to his girlfriend and not being able to see his children , er and Madam that 's had an effect on his , on his business as well . |
| 40 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 41 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
| 42 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 43 | Perhaps he will be able to get the best out of Springbok centre Faffa Knoetze who has been battling with injury and actuarial exams for the last few seasons . |
| 44 | ‘ Gary can only answer by performing in the style we have grown accustomed to for the last few seasons . ’ |
| 45 | If a girl is lucky and her parents are alive , she goes to her mother 's house for the last few months of her pregnancy and about the first three months of the baby 's life . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | A downstairs room , once his study , had been turned into a bedroom for the last few months , and his bed faced the french windows leading into the garden he loved so well . |
| 48 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 49 | She died in 1850 , having been allowed to leave the convent for the last few months of her life to be nursed by her sisters . |
| 50 | ‘ The hunting season may start now , but these people have been out mercilessly killing the young fox cubs for the last few months to train the hounds , ’ said trainee accountant Sarah Carruthers , 19 . |
| 51 | For the last few months , the papers have been full of stories about Love Doves , Disco Biscuits and Dennis the Menaces , and now they bring you Special K , Vitamin K , Kit-Kat . |
| 52 | Cheeks , a gaudy girl who had been riding with the ‘ pomps for the last few months , was literally crushed flat into the road , dead eyes staring from a foot-wide face . |
| 53 | Philip , who is to take his A Levels this summer , has been studying at Repton for the last few months and will join the Academy in August , two months after Zara arrives at the Academy 's Hemel Hempstead base . |
| 54 | The deal , said by sources to be ‘ very valuable to Pyramid , ’ will also allow ICL to OEM the company 's high-end MIServer ES machines — this follows on from an informal Pyramid-ICL sales teaming that has been operating in the UK for the last few months . |
| 55 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 56 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 57 | I have n't been happy for the last few months and when an old girlfriend asked me out I went along and enjoyed myself . |
| 58 | I 've had it a bit on my conscience , really , for the last few months . |
| 59 | And I 'll get my accountant to chase your vendor 's elusive accountant and get some figures for the last few months . |
| 60 | ‘ For the last few months I 've really been feeling together , an integrated personality for the first time since my breakdown . |