Example sentences of "last few [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paid holidays , more affluence and cheaper travel have turned the last few decades into an era of travel . |
| 2 | I just caught the last few minutes of a Yorkshire TV documentary , ‘ England 's Last Wilderness ’ , with David Bellamy burbling about the Pennines . |
| 3 | We have a last few hours in a freebie hotel . |
| 4 | Lafaille , a 26-years-old professional guide from Gap , has emerged in the last few years as a climber of unique all round ability . |
| 5 | Although the numbers of part-time teachers have declined in the last few years as a result of financial stringency , their contribution to the colleges remains important . |
| 6 | Michael Mason , editor of Capital Gay newspaper and involved in the gay movement for more than 20 years , said : ‘ There have been enormous changes but there is evidence in the last few years of an increase in queer-bashing by men aged 15–23 who have difficulty coping with their own sexuality . ’ |
| 7 | Just as the rewards for European golfers have increased dramatically over the last few years with a circuit worth nearly twenty million pounds , so have they for caddies . |
| 8 | Most of them , however , left Romania before the last few years in an attempt to capitalise on what 's left of their playing careers . |
| 9 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 10 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 11 | He scaled the last few stairs in a spastic fashion , but reached the top flight as he heard the voiders ' soles at the bottom . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Once you have some tan , you can switch to a factor 5–6 , but save lower factors ( nothing lower than 3 or 4 ) until the last few days of a 2-week holiday , if you have a tan . |
| 15 | After all , we have spent these last few days in a very secluded country house . |
| 16 | Managing director Michel Apchin confirmed takeover rumours , saying ‘ We have been in negotiations for the last few weeks with a group that is not French . |
| 17 | He organised many other fund raising events during the last few months including a sponsored marathon scuba dive and raised a grand total of £2,000 towards his own travel and subsistence . |
| 18 | His plate held the last few crumbs of a generous slice of pound cake . |