Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 2 | After she had scattered the last few blooms , she went and gave the girl a five pound note , Ulster Bank pounds , not punts . |
| 3 | Paid holidays , more affluence and cheaper travel have turned the last few decades into an era of travel . |
| 4 | Those people who have kindly attended the last few forums will have noticed the dearth of students for whom the event was organised . |
| 5 | And why raise the subject now , just when she wanted to get back to her own office to quell the bewildering inner turbulence which had disturbed the past few minutes ? |
| 6 | I must have missed the next few sentences . |
| 7 | For a moment , Folly was taken aback , but then she realised that the policeman had probably only seen the last few seconds of their little drama . |
| 8 | People whove seen the previous few matches all seemed to agree Rocky faded badly and as a result was exposing Kelly a little too much . |
| 9 | But we 've noticed the last few times it 's all Jacqueline now . |
| 10 | She was not afraid of the dark , because when she was very little Maggie had had the last few scales of Fenna 's tail to suck on while she fell asleep . |
| 11 | It has leaped the last few leagues in one bound ( great stuff ) , and lands smack BANG on the Cathedral roof ( or thereabouts ) . |
| 12 | Having spent the last few minutes in preparation for the strain of an interview with Davout , Thiercelin almost visibly relaxed . |
| 13 | With his long arms , thick eyebrows and perpetual five o'clock shadow , Hughes has spent the last few years translating these daily drunken ramblings into a series of highly successful stage shows that have smoothed the way for his successful transition to our television screens . |
| 14 | We refer , of course , not to vast numbers of physically appealing American females , but to the stunning vistas of the Norfolk coast , which Richard Denyer has spent the last few years painstakingly photographing |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't even know what they 'd talk about ; a member of the factory-owning Scottish gentry and a second mate — or whatever Lachy is these days — who 's spent the last few years in Oz . |
| 16 | He 'd spent the last few days bouncing from resort to resort . |
| 17 | Mr Rushdie has spent the last few months in Helsinki , Finland , completing a new book . |
| 18 | So you 've spent the last few months diplomatically ‘ losing ’ at golf . |
| 19 | USL and SunSoft have spent the last few months working out the commercial implications of the ABI on delivery schedules and compatibility issues . |
| 20 | A quiet , bespectacled and sceptical American , Robert Morris , has spent the last few terms testing ‘ respondents ’ ( the academics prefer this term to psychic , witch-doctor , shaman or whoever else they are analysing ) . |
| 21 | He had spent the past few months noting down all the sightings and rumours of the Bookman 's movements . |
| 22 | Possibly because of this widespread feeling that relationships between health and social services were good , planning for April 1993 got left behind , and the city has spent the past few months frantically catching up . |
| 23 | All the greatest journalistic intelligences in the business , who had spent the past few weeks travelling around with their ears to the ground , confirmed it . |
| 24 | She seemed to have spent the past few years running away . |
| 25 | The only complaint to have survived the past few hours was the one relating to the damage of an apartment door ; the couple in the next room had wanted Lucas to be prosecuted , crucified even . |