Example sentences of "[to-vb] in the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They overpowered the Italian pair to win in the last few strokes |
| 5 | Because what you choose to do in the next few minutes could decide whether a child will live or die . |
| 6 | There was much to do in the next few days . |
| 7 | DEFENDER Terry Butcher swallowed up Luton 's attack — then confessed he could be forced to retire in the next few weeks . |
| 8 | He 's the second top player to go in the last few weeks . |
| 9 | The industry says that the figure should be almost 165,000 , and that more jobs are threatened to go in the next few months . |
| 10 | Doctors were expected to decide in the next few hours whether Nicola would be allowed home today . |
| 11 | ( 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 . ) |
| 12 | Farms that have ceased to exist in the last few years have been Osentons ( or Clinkham Farm ) , Whitings , Clements and Flint House . |
| 13 | ‘ We plan to marry in the next few weeks and go to live with his parents in Toronto . |
| 14 | They plan to move in the next few weeks . |
| 15 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 16 | In the light of what was to happen in the next few years , defeat by just 2–0 may be seen as something of a triumph , especially in view of the two traumas that occurred . |
| 17 | The problem with being an astrologer is that everyone is always pestering you to find out what 's to happen in the next few days . |
| 18 | I do n't know what is going to happen in the next few weeks , but I know I 'm capable of getting right up there . ’ |
| 19 | There was a period when cyclists disappeared from the Meet altogether but they have started to return in the last few years and among the highlights of this year 's event — May 22–25 — will be a return to races on the old grass cycle track around the perimeter of Richmond Cricket Club 's ground and a road race for penny-farthings . |
| 20 | The more what we might call trendy or eccentric or showy technique has tended to become in the last few years , the more I have felt I wanted to try and make films with as much simplicity and as much directness as possible . |