Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] last few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the last few years a small piece of wall has been restored and recapped to preserve the last few remains . |
| 2 | Although the woods look impressively exotic and expensive , it has not been necessary to pilfer the last few acres of an equatorial hardwood rainforest in order to achieve the attractive grain patterns on these basses , hence the ( ultimately ) rather reasonable prices . |
| 3 | One can scarcely comprehend a hand-chiselled stollen being taken right through to the water — no drill holes to probe ahead and no explosives to blast the last few feet away . |
| 4 | I think you may know that sometimes universities need to go into something called clearing , which is a last-minute applications process in erm in late August and September , to fill the last few vacancies . |
| 5 | WORLD cricket has distilled itself into the English game : the World Cup is over , South Africa have played their first Test match against the West Indies and now the far flung stars of these international matches have flown in to fill the last few places in the carousel of English county cricket . |
| 6 | Council officials in Hartlepool are urging local people to come forward to fill the last few places on an outward bounds course in the Lake District . |
| 7 | Lean your body forwards to squeeze the last few centimetres of range out of the punch . |
| 8 | I expect they wanted to watch the last few matches play the concluding holes . |
| 9 | Finally , when the stream dried up to a dribble , she popped the man 's wet dick in her mouth to savour the last few drops . |
| 10 | Catching the rays of sunshine this variety lights up the shrub border to prolong the last few days of autumn . |
| 11 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
| 12 | We all thought that Trotsky could have run rings round him , but it was Stalin who survived to wreck the last few hopes of the Revolution and now to swallow up Eastern Europe . ’ |
| 13 | By way of contrast , Limbo is an excellent , varied VS 4c , culminating in an exciting traverse to join the last few moves of the former route . |
| 14 | George waved and Maxim was released to make the last few yards by himself . |