Example sentences of "[conj] [art] last few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it was over , and with the end came that sense of anti-climax because tops are never as perfect as they should be , nor the last few steps as brilliantly conceived or executed . |
| 2 | Order effects strategy involved the effect of the position of each adjective in the list to the impression formed ; ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ , ‘ when the list ended with several good qualities this tended to affect any answer since they remained more prominent in my mind ’ , and ‘ tended to remember first 3 adjectives better than last 3 ’ . |
| 3 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 4 | As a final refinement , you will probably find that the last few frames of each shot on the copy assembly are over-recorded at the edits . |
| 5 | ‘ I hope I do n't need to tell you the level of shock that the last few days have brought to this entire country . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It is true that the last few days have been hard , ’ he confessed quietly , sliding his arm along Caroline 's taut shoulders , ‘ but tonight I will look after her . |
| 7 | The message I got was that the last few days it did n't matter a bugger what it cost but we were in desperate straights to get in stock . |
| 8 | The bright day was ruined , and the peace that the last few weeks had given her shattered . |
| 9 | I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected . |
| 10 | Writing in The Executive Grapevine , he sees natural competition between search firms as enough to foster and maintain their quality , and considers that the last few years have witnessed a weeding-out of the less professional outfits resulting in fewer and better consultants . |
| 11 | It may not be too extreme to suggest that the last few years have seen a quiet revolution in the direction taken by our thinking about writing development and the teaching of writing in schools . |
| 12 | The drive down was very straightforward until the last few miles ( it must have been because up until then we did n't get lost ) when we had a slight hitch and had to study the map a little more carefully . |
| 13 | All but one of the chiefs took the oath timeously , the exception being the aged McIan Macdonald of Glencoe who delayed until the last few days of 1691 . |
| 14 | Once you have some tan , you can switch to a factor 5–6 , but save lower factors ( nothing lower than 3 or 4 ) until the last few days of a 2-week holiday , if you have a tan . |
| 15 | Everything was apparently under control until the last few seconds of flight and he was so busy trying to sort it out that fear had no time to grow . |
| 16 | Roberts argued that up until the last few years , apart from a very few studies made by certain women scholars , women were notable in British sociology mainly by their absence . |
| 17 | Until the last few years the entire auto industry was so fixed in its opposition to small cars as to leave the market for them to foreign firms . |
| 18 | Until the last few years , the thought that one might have microscopic techniques sensitive enough to actually see tiny changes in the structure of neurons and their synapses as a result of learning seemed improbable — to start with , one would need to have a very good idea where to look and what to measure in the brain . |
| 19 | ‘ Good , live firing 's just stopped and if the last few nights are anything to go by , we 'll be hearing from the battlegroup soon , once their own fitters have had a chance to check out the day 's casualties. , |
| 20 | In chartered helicopters they hovered over the empty stretch of road between Fenny Stratford and Buckingham to photograph the bare tarmac and the last few barriers and police cars parked there at first light . |
| 21 | The sky was dull , and the last few seconds were almost certainly wasted film , but he did not switch the camera off until the fighter had disappeared . |
| 22 | Never mind , the dates were going in and the last few weeks of the tour in the Eastern states were coming up . |
| 23 | Confining ourselves to Vienna and the last few weeks alone , it seems he may also have been responsible for a couple of recent murders of prostitutes in the Altstadt . |
| 24 | It seemed everyone was up in the mountains enjoying the glorious weather and the last few days skiing of the year . |
| 25 | By now I was enjoying the hot , sunny weather , but , alas , time was running out , and the last few days were spent back on Mahe . |
| 26 | This has already happened in microelectronics and the last few years have seen a revolution in this respect . |
| 27 | French financial markets have benefited from deregulation in the 1980s , and the last few years have witnessed an acceleration in financial innovation in France . |
| 28 | But the last few minutes before their arrival fled by . |
| 29 | She 'd known John Delaney for about six months , but the last few hours had been the catalyst . |
| 30 | I 'm sure he was , but the last few years when I knew him he 'd gotten a lot of respect from people and he was n't having to struggle any more , and I think he knew the people loved him and he liked that . |