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 | 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 . |
3 | It had become increasingly claustrophobic in the last few weeks . |
4 | Staff turnover has been high in the last few years as school closure has loomed closer . |
5 | Three other people had also said they were interested in the last few days . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ Our sales figures have been fairly consistent over the last few months . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ George Graham has been very supportive in the last few years , during which I 've come through a lot of problems . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | And she had made Paddy happy in the last few months of his life . |
20 | ‘ It seems a shame to have got so far and to be stuck on the last few , ’ said Judith , who can be contacted on 0420 22108 . |
21 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |
22 | The single most influential neo-Marxist conceptual innovation for the analysis of development within the global system in general in the last few decades has been dependency theory , or what might be more accurately termed the dependency metatheory . |
23 | ‘ It has made things very difficult over the last few months . |
24 | He was conscious on admission , explained he had felt unwell for the last few days and had intended seeing a doctor today . |
25 | Neural networks , or connectionist models , have been increasingly influential in the last few years in the description and investigation of language processing . |
26 | The care pulls up at the studio and Kylie greets everyone with a breezy ‘ G'Day ’ and gets ready for the last few moments as Lola teenage runaway . |
27 | There 's certainly things a bit of extra money would make enjoyable in the last few months . |
28 | The rumour mill claims Unix System Laboratories Inc has been sniffing around the Santa Cruz Operation Inc over the last few months — with takeover in mind . |