Example sentences of "for the [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barely managing to hold her breath for the extra few seconds , she hauled herself to the other side of the object first , before surfacing . |
| 2 | He was going out and would be engaged for the following few days . |
| 3 | After all , it 's served you well for the past few hours and may now be looking forward to you treating it . |
| 4 | And a cobweb across an entrance hole tells you that nobody has passed that way for the past few hours , but little more . |
| 5 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 6 | For the past few hours she had been too busy to think of her own problem . |
| 7 | I have n't noticed Reg writing much for the past few minutes , though . |
| 8 | For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . |
| 9 | And for the past few months , I 've been reading Viz. |
| 10 | A government supermarket in New Delhi has been selling 10 solar cookers every day for the past few months for about £20 each . |
| 11 | He could not explain it , but his putting had gone to pieces for the past few months and he was missing shots which formerly he would have holed with ease . |
| 12 | This is something we have all known for the past few months . |
| 13 | He has held the position on a part-time basis for the past few months . |
| 14 | For the past few months , the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been trying , without success , to find a drawings curator to replace Jacob Bean , who has just retired . |
| 15 | He wished Annabel were not so insecure and dependent upon him ; for the past few months , as she waited for Avanti to make up its mind , she had needed constant emotional support and reassurance from Scott , who had felt her clinging to him , almost like a physical weight on his back . |
| 16 | Christina had seen it every day for the past few months , but had to admit that tonight it looked especially magical . |
| 17 | It was an ancient emotion for Blanche , calling her home from the wasteland of tension and anger she had tramped across for the past few months . |
| 18 | ‘ I tolerated her while Ma was alive to keep the peace for Ma 's sake , except for the past few months , but no more . |
| 19 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
| 20 | For the past few months it 's been more or less constantly at the limit — the £300,000 cheque put it unacceptably over . " |
| 21 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 22 | All the anger , frustration and hurt finally exploded into action in violent contrast to the lethargy that had been her constant companion for the past few months . |
| 23 | I have n't read anything official from Elland Road for the past few months , so I 'm presuming that this season coming we wo n't need premier cards to go to away games . |
| 24 | The laser has been developed and built in Banbury … its been undergoing sea tests on the south coast for the past few months … |
| 25 | For the past few months Police have been mounting a major operation to crackdown on joy riders … its the type of accident they 'd always feared . |
| 26 | For the past few weeks President Najibullah has been meeting militia commanders from around the country offering them more weapons and money to maintain their loyalty and keep the roads open . |
| 27 | This is the church which has been the centre of opposition in East Berlin for the past few weeks . |
| 28 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
| 29 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 30 | Mrs Phelps , who had been watching her with fascination for the past few weeks , now got up from her desk and went over to her . |