Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the few remaining [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BONN — As the net of restrictions which prevents East Germans leaving their country grows tighter , the flow of refugees through the few remaining gaps continues steadily , writes Patricia Clough . |
| 2 | ‘ And I hope we 're both mature enough to treat each other with civility and respect for the few remaining days we 're forced to spend together . ’ |
| 3 | The Fund also wished to cut the public wage bill ( increase unemployment ) ; lift import controls ( allowing an influx of consumer goods , thereby undermining local production ) ; privatize national industries at outrageously discounted prices ; raise interest rates ( also hitting the competitiveness of local producers ) ; and remove exchange controls ( ‘ so that a privileged few could legitimately drain the country of the few remaining dregs of foreign reserves ’ ) . |
| 4 | He was also obsessed by an imagined threat from the few remaining ex-revolutionaries . |
| 5 | It also happens to have very valuable timber , and the Chilean government is anxious to profit from the dead trees that are interspersed with living ones in the few remaining areas of forest where alerce still occurs . |