Example sentences of "that [prep] [art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I welcome the substantial orders that have been received and I was pleased to see that in the past few days a number of them have come here . |
| 2 | I am glad to report that in the past few months we have made real progress with the car manufacturers . |
| 3 | The report noted that over the past few years the government departments had introduced competitive fee bidding for the appointment of consulting engineers leading to lower fee rates . |
| 4 | He wrote Leopold a philosophical letter which has since become famous , in which he said that over the past few years he had come to regard death as the ‘ true goal ’ of man 's existence , and that he had become so closely acquainted with this ‘ best and truest friend ’ that the image of death was no longer terrifying , but rather reassuring and consoling . |
| 5 | The very fact that over the past few snow starved winters she has compiled a guide book to Nordic ski touring in Scotland , is sufficient testimony to this characteristic . |
| 6 | The directing principle of this work is that over the past few centuries sexuality has assumed major symbolic importance as a target of social intervention and organisation , to a degree that differentiates this period from those preceding it . |
| 7 | Lisa might have responded that over the past few years she 'd endured more than her share of character-building challenges . |