Example sentences of "[subord] [art] last few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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. , |
| 9 | Whereas the last few years have seen women such as Liz Fraser , Kristin Hersh and Mary Margaret O'Hara shred the conventions of writing and performance , marrying impressionistic , ‘ illogical ’ words with disturbed vocalising , Lambert 's songs are still very much stuck in the singer-songwriter tradition of narrative and description . |
| 10 | Whereas the last few years have seen women such as Liz Fraser , Kristin Hersh and Mary Margaret O'Hara shred the conventions of writing and performance , marrying impressionistic , ‘ illogical ’ words with disturbed vocalising , Lambert 's songs are still very much stuck in the singer-songwriter tradition of narrative and description . |
| 11 | This trick has been used since the last few years of the Vietnam war , and does not rely on any particularly outlandish circuitry . |
| 12 | Suddenly , as the last few pupils left , there was an almighty scream and Mould came bounding into the room on two huge settee springs , just like the ones he had worn when Endill first met him . |
| 13 | They include a club promoter , at least one DJ and at least two dancers who 've been associated with the scene we 've been involved with for the last few years |
| 14 | There had n't been so much of that though the last few years . |