Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the last [det] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been loafing a bit for the last few days . |
| 2 | ‘ Putting on this performance has brought everyone together and there has been a buzz around the building during the last few days . ’ |
| 3 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 4 | It 's been Huey , George , Ralph and Bert for the last few days , liquid laffs ahoy . |
| 5 | Li Yuan sat there a moment longer , thinking over the satisfactions of the last few days , recollecting the great feeling of ch'i , of pure energy , he had experienced in dealing with these matters . |
| 6 | Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down . |
| 7 | The end result was an undignified collapse in the last few days ’ ( Marsh 1978 : 176 ) . |
| 8 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 9 | I want to thank also er the different organisations , cos you made an absolute profit for the G P O , er erm British Telecom , they must have actually made a bomb in Leicestershire over the last few days . |
| 10 | Market makers have been running ‘ flat ’ trading books over the last few days to minimise their risk . |
| 11 | The fact that the hordes of reporters who live in the burrows of the Palace of Westminster got it wrong — and have since tried to justify getting it wrong — has given me , and many of my friends who knew the score pretty accurately before the result , much quiet pleasure over the last few days . |
| 12 | If an egg has been discharged from the ovary during the last few days it will now be on its way through the tubes . |
| 13 | As they rode leisurely through the thyme-scented , bee-humming air , Rincewind pondered on the experiences of the last few days . |
| 14 | I 've put a lot of work into the last few days . ’ |
| 15 | The Labour leader described the Home Secretary 's comments as ‘ peculiar ’ and insisted that race should remain firmly in the background as a potential issue in the last few days of the campaign . |
| 16 | Have you put in additional hours at work over the last few days ? |
| 17 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 18 | I 've been reading the fucking Bible for the last few days . |
| 19 | Environment Minister David Maclean told an audience at Tory Central Office : ‘ The rain of the last few days goes some way to replenishing the reservoirs . |
| 20 | After their diet of the last few days , anything would taste like ambrosia . |
| 21 | Moreover , as the chart also shows , the greatest part of the improvement appears to have taken place in the last few days — or even hours — of the campaign . |
| 22 | But I was able to tell the House this morning that all the Rule forty-three prisoners , who were the ones who were particularly vulnerable , are now accounted for , and I mean by that that they have all come out of the jail in the last few days and unfortunately one of them , as you know , has died from his injuries . |
| 23 | It seems clear that several million voters have still not made up their minds , and there is therefore an added incentive in the last few days to influence them . |
| 24 | He 's managed to rise above the drugs stigma which has hit the British team over the last few days . ’ |
| 25 | She felt it unnecessary to mention some of the incidents that had taken place over the last few days , least of all the confrontation at the cottage the previous night . |
| 26 | Will the Minister give a guarantee in the last few days of his Government that none of those elderly people will have their home repossessed ? |
| 27 | The bomb blasts and scares were a major irritation for London retailers as streets were cordoned off and buildings evacuated , but there was strong trading in the last few days before Christmas , now an established feature of the London retail scene . |
| 28 | Mrs McHugh said her work for reconciliation would continue : ‘ It 's good to see ordinary people come out today , especially in the wake of the bombings over the last few days . |
| 29 | One can only hope that in their visits to these firms over the last few days , Ray Noorda and Roel Pieper were sufficiently persuasive . |
| 30 | ‘ As we have said several times in the last few days , ’ Hoare wrote to Neville Chamberlain on 31 August , ‘ we had some great good luck in the absence of Winston and L.G.' Having destroyed one coalition , Baldwin had no intention of entering another . |