Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elena has now returned for more plastic surgery and although her family does not have to pay for the treatment , there will be hefty travelling expenses to meet during the next few years . |
| 2 | RAIL fares are scheduled to soar in the next few years and at least 5,000 railway jobs will be lost following the Government 's decision to slash grants for British Rail in the early 1990s . |
| 3 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 4 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 5 | But we 're now reasonably confident that we will continue to increase over the next few years and are budgeting for a modest growth . ’ |
| 6 | Now if you 're a horse racing fan … the brain will be galloping … the mouth watering … at the thought of what 's to come over the next few weeks … |
| 7 | As a full stomach makes it even harder for a baby with RDS to breathe he was n't able to feed for the first few days and relied on the drip . |
| 8 | But by all means take a flask of tea or coffee to drink during the first few hours , but flasked drinks always taste stale after ten or twelve hours . |
| 9 | I mean , now I 've got several hundred pounds resting on it if I have to walk in the last few miles I will , but er pride I 'm sure I 'll keep going . |
| 10 | They overpowered the Italian pair to win in the last few strokes |
| 11 | As harvest time was drawing to a close and autumn would soon be upon them , Tamar admitted what she had tried to deny for the last few weeks . |
| 12 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 13 | Because what you choose to do in the next few minutes could decide whether a child will live or die . |
| 14 | There was much to do in the next few days . |
| 15 | ‘ In the meantime you are free to do whatever you wish to do over the next few weeks . |
| 16 | DEFENDER Terry Butcher swallowed up Luton 's attack — then confessed he could be forced to retire in the next few weeks . |
| 17 | He 's the second top player to go in the last few weeks . |
| 18 | The industry says that the figure should be almost 165,000 , and that more jobs are threatened to go in the next few months . |
| 19 | Kirov assessed the scant information he had managed to accumulate over the last few weeks . |
| 20 | 80,000 ft of purpose built warehousing for goods in transit is ready for occupation and this replacement programme is planned to continue over the next few years . |
| 21 | In addition , the ending of the Iran/Iraq conflict has meant that there is now more oil on world markets and the price of oil has tended to fall over the last few months . |
| 22 | The bulletin said : ‘ This gives rise to the hope that the rate of increase may start to fall over the next few quarters . ’ |
| 23 | Doctors were expected to decide in the next few hours whether Nicola would be allowed home today . |
| 24 | ( If they sound a little harassed , please bear in mind that they are new to the system and so may take a little longer to respond in the first few weeks of live running . ) |
| 25 | Farms that have ceased to exist in the last few years have been Osentons ( or Clinkham Farm ) , Whitings , Clements and Flint House . |
| 26 | It 's due to arrive within the next few months , and is Windows without the need for DOS as a base upon which to work . |
| 27 | As a result , Uzzell reckons that the market is likely to polarise over the next few years . |
| 28 | The company should know what are the future consequences of its existing investments and commitments , and ought to be able to describe , at least in broad terms , some of the most probable scenarios it is likely to face during the next few years . |
| 29 | ‘ Just remember that and we might — just might — be able to get through the next few days without any major problems . ’ |
| 30 | How she managed to get through the next few hours mystified her . |