Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] last few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been loafing a bit for the last few days . |
| 2 | ‘ Putting on this performance has brought everyone together and there has been a buzz around the building during the last few days . ’ |
| 3 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 7 | The sharp fall in turnover of the last few years means that many people who might otherwise have entered the housing market currently remain outside it . |
| 8 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |
| 9 | The end result was an undignified collapse in the last few days ’ ( Marsh 1978 : 176 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Certainly , and since you mentioned the perfectly ludicrous notion of equal rights , what about these other bounders we have allowed into the club in the last few years ? |
| 11 | Well , given the opposition in the last few matches they ve not done too bad . |
| 12 | She had lost weight in the last few weeks and the jeans were a little loose about her waist . |
| 13 | ‘ My main fault in the last few years , is being too laid back . |
| 14 | It is impossible to analyse from this source the rate of entry in the last few years , because brand-new firms are reluctant to advertise their newness in case this dissuades clients and candidates from trusting them and taking them seriously . |
| 15 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
| 16 | ‘ Nothing further came from the ring until the last few weeks of the war . |
| 17 | There 's been something like twenty per cent cut over the last few years and erm some faculty members have taken early retirement and left , so a lot of subjects have lost some of their most able people . |
| 18 | She well be reviewing the foundation 's programme over the last few years with the aim of identifying any gaps or areas where new initiatives might be needed . |
| 19 | Net Trust has launched into action over the last few months in different areas . |
| 20 | The fact that the hordes of reporters who live in the burrows of the Palace of Westminster got it wrong — and have since tried to justify getting it wrong — has given me , and many of my friends who knew the score pretty accurately before the result , much quiet pleasure over the last few days . |
| 21 | Magritte has performed extremely well at auction over the last few years , according to Melanie Clore of Sotheby 's Impressionist Pictures Department . |
| 22 | But it is also a consequence of the academic stagnation over the last few years of much that is called industrial archaeology in England . |
| 23 | They said 1990 would be fairly gloomy , with little increase in the number of houses being sold ( currently sales are running at about a third of the level of the last few years ) and no movement in prices throughout the UK . |
| 24 | Something in the atmosphere of the room seemed to have changed in the course of the last few moments , and Liston could n't say for certain what it was . |
| 25 | The literature of the last few years is thronged with papers proposing that these must be taken into account — but with few realistic proposals on how this is to be achieved . |
| 26 | After the patience of the last few years , he wrote , why this sudden impatience ? |
| 27 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 28 | He 's been active with me in this issue for the last few years , ’ the MP announced . |
| 29 | If an egg has been discharged from the ovary during the last few days it will now be on its way through the tubes . |
| 30 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |