Example sentences of "time [prep] [art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 2 | Schools , temples and churches have been hit too many times in the past few weeks to be the victims of mistakes . |
| 3 | I 've heard that play so many times in the past few days , I knew the lines was n't right . |
| 4 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 5 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 6 | I hope you still support firemen through their troubled times in the next few months . |
| 7 | Fifth , class action suits mean that a shareholder with just one share can sue on behalf of the entire body of shareholders and , finally , the widely misused Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act allows any firm that has been charged with fraud more than three times in the previous few years , whether or not it is found guilty , to be perceived as a corrupt organisation and therefore liable for triple damages . |
| 8 | ‘ As we have said several times in the last few days , ’ Hoare wrote to Neville Chamberlain on 31 August , ‘ we had some great good luck in the absence of Winston and L.G.' Having destroyed one coalition , Baldwin had no intention of entering another . |
| 9 | I have been moved on two or three thousand times in the last few years |
| 10 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | After all , she has been asked the question several times over the past few days and will not say yes or no . |
| 12 | We have faced particularly traumatic times over the last few weeks as the economic situation has forced us to reduce our staff numbers in the UK . |
| 13 | Finbar O'Doherty was to appear in the pages of the Derry Journal numerous times over the next few years , under a variety of names , including George Doherty , George O'Doherty , George F. O'Doherty , Finbar Doherty , Finbar O'Doherty and Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh . |
| 14 | The ERA became law on 29 July 1988 , though each of its many provisions will come into force at different times over the next few years . |
| 15 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
| 16 | WELSH RUGBY was united for the first time in the last few stormy months when the 203 member clubs of the Welsh Rugby Union decided to sever playing links with South Africa last night . |
| 17 | If things get too complicated , he told himself , not for the first time in the last few months , I can always make a run for it . |
| 18 | There are fears that Wall Street , which this week hit a peak , is in for a torrid time in the next few weeks . |
| 19 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 20 | Not for the first time in the past few months , Jonadab was disturbed to recognise envy and the seeds of discord in his youngest son . |
| 21 | CAPRICORN — VERY few Capricorns have had a whale of a time in the past few years . |
| 22 | Successful completion of a complex exercise such as this upgrade requires team work and a project team consisting of people from Services Delivery , Technical Services Systems Development and IBM have spent a considerable amount of time over the last few weeks to ensure that the upgrade when ahead without impact on Technology 's customers . |
| 23 | They have obviously been through a very bad time over the last few days and it is n't going to get any better over the next few weeks . ’ |
| 24 | In the same way , all examinations make considerable demands on teachers ' time in terms of involvement in Examination Board work , running examinations in school and subsequently marking them ; but an examination like GCSE , with radically new features , is likely to involve considerably more time over the next few years for teachers to become able and proficient in its procedures . |
| 25 | The weather reports indicate that we may get a light snowfall some time over the next few days . |
| 26 | The hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) has spent much of his time over the past few months telling industry about his policies . |