Example sentences of "these last few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 2 | I do hope it works out for him and am sure he has not found these last few months at all easy as he starts his working life . |
| 3 | Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in . |
| 4 | She knew she had been brought up these last few years with her Aunt Alice and Uncle Stan because of the instability at home . |
| 5 | But she and Matthew had had so many cold steely little tussles these last few weeks over so many small things — like the panelling in the hall and cutting some trees down at the side of the house which she said darkened the drawing-room and which he had gone berserk about — that Sara did not feel she could be obstructive again . |
| 6 | The sense of expectancy grows in these last few days before the fulfilment of God 's promise . |
| 7 | After all , we have spent these last few days in a very secluded country house . |