Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [adj] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 2 | Slowed by the blossoming pain in his injured leg , he supported himself with a hand on the rough stone wall and stumbled down the remaining few steps . |
| 3 | Corridors that sloped down more and more steeply , so that they had to sit and shuffle down the last few metres . |
| 4 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
| 5 | Hurriedly , she jotted down the last few words , and started back out , but it was too late . |
| 6 | Parenting education might begin in schools and continue over the first few years of married life ( Pound et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | This is , of course , a time of smokescreens so far as the Masters is concerned and to hear some of the Europeans talk over the last few days , they appear to be in need of the psychiatrist 's couch as much as anything . |
| 8 | But their relationship had become so close over the last few months that even this advice did not see , all the 'surrealistic " to Sullivan . |
| 9 | I 've taken over the last few months when we 've done our sales training here , talking to certainly on advanced sales skills courses and so on , I 've tried to bring an air of realism to their world . |
| 10 | Publication of the standards is part of a series of initiatives taken over the last few years , including production of the ‘ Best Practice ’ management kit in 1985 , The Society 's model ‘ Office Manual ’ [ 1987 ] , the development of management training , and publication of the ‘ Quality Briefing ’ and ‘ Client Care Guide . ’ |
| 11 | You 'll be surprised how quickly they lower over the next few days . |
| 12 | The New Year feast is only one of a number of sumptuous meals that follow as relatives arrive over the next few days . |
| 13 | I kept my eyes open over the next few days and although I saw her sitting in the window she never appeared outside . |
| 14 | While the Camphill Development Project will naturally take up time and energy and demand much sacrifice over the next few years it must not become our only goal . |
| 15 | The really pointless measure is letting councils spend the money they get over the next few years from selling homes and other properties . |
| 16 | It will inevitably take some time before the full benefits of our strategy are realised and , whilst we expect our production and cash flow to remain strong and rise over the next few years , profitability in the short term is likely to remain depressed , even with contributions from disposals . |
| 17 | If lamb prices rise over the next few years , as they may well do , then the subsidies will fall . |
| 18 | I hope over the next few months to be writing about all these accessories in more detail . |
| 19 | If you have n't got one of these to hand , perhaps we could arrange for one to be taken over the next few months . |
| 20 | Similar incidents occur over the next few months , a pattern emerges , surveilance teams are used and eventually the intruder is arrested . |
| 21 | Kerin , 53 , a trained economist , was reputed to be more flexible than his fiscally conservative predecessor , but he quickly sought to reassure the business sector that there would be no change in Treasury policy , stating that it was important to preserve " all the benefits of the hard decisions " taken over the past few years . |
| 22 | ‘ Hope that you 'll finally understand what I 've been trying to let you know over the past few days without frightening you away by putting it into words . |
| 23 | Swales , the target for much of the fans anger over the past few weeks , is likely to resist Lee 's offer . |
| 24 | He fights off a last few body spasms , sighs like a siren winding down , and opens slitty eyes to see his Victory Bar . |
| 25 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 26 | Below Georgiades his men leapt up the last few pegs . |
| 27 | She felt his warm stickiness on her tongue , and rolled it around her mouth before placing her lips over the tip of his dying penis to suck up the last few drops . |
| 28 | She struggled up the last few yards and arrived at his side breathless . |
| 29 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 30 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |