Example sentences of "her [adj] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently Mrs Thatcher , working on her memoirs , was trying to reconstruct her first few days in Downing Street in 1979 . |
| 2 | She had refused to be parted from it , and leniency had been shown during her first few days in new surroundings . |
| 3 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 4 | There was also the presence of land-girls on neighbouring farms to remind Wendy of her own few months in the Women 's Land Army at St Andrews , where many Polish troops were stationed . |
| 5 | Oh I 'm sorry , but there was only that one which is all , it 's got her latest stuff on it , I 'm not really keen on anything else , it 's got those last , you know the sort of her last few records of it , on it I should say I did n't know there was any others around , when I told you I wanted the Cher one , it was the one that was out now not the old ones . |
| 6 | Below , in the shop , Sushi was working normally , unaware of the finality with which her partner was planning her last few hours in England . |
| 7 | Although she will in fact serve her last few shifts at the new community hospital at Treloar 's , it was her wish to hold her retirement party at Alton General Hospital before it closed . |
| 8 | Mrs Leinen is spending her last few days with the children taking them for trips , including to London Zoo and the seaside . |