Example sentences of "the last few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last few minutes he would fumble in a inside pocket , and the Queen in her handbag , and they would quickly run through the formal subjects for discussion . |
| 2 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 3 | For the last few hours he had been thinking about James and Kate and the rest of the Mollands , the Salpertons and the Redburns ; and it would not have shocked him if any or all of them who were still alive had turned up unannounced at Number 29 . |
| 4 | In the last few hours she 's moved house , but we 'll find her . |
| 5 | Well , given the opposition in the last few matches they ve not done too bad . |
| 6 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 7 | So I bought her some fruit pastilles again just while we were waiting for the train , but funnily enough , the last few times we 've been at the station , Bobby |
| 8 | And then the the last few times it 's me son 's been aggravating me to go into his caravan , you know what I mean ? |
| 9 | But we 've noticed the last few times it 's all Jacqueline now . |
| 10 | I do n't know , the last few times I 've tried to come off , I have n't really wanted to come off , thinking about it now . |
| 11 | With the considerable degree of replanting in the last few centuries it is possible that the Weald now exhibits a more wooded aspect than at any time since the early medieval period . |
| 12 | Today the big draught breeds , especially in the Massif Central , have found new roles in the beef industry and over the last few years they have been exported in increasing numbers to boost beef production in several parts of the world , sometimes displacing some of the famous traditional British beef breeds . |
| 13 | The last few years they had been more apart , until in 1969 they both rediscovered each other in one of the first Women 's Liberation groups in London . |
| 14 | Over the last few years they have simply been brought into line with demand . |
| 15 | For the last few years they had only discussed their respective businesses and he had listened to his father 's bitter complaints about hunt saboteurs . |
| 16 | Mind you , I think the last few years they they 'd sort of erm relaxed a bit more |
| 17 | They 've always had links with industry and commerce , but over the last few years they 've recognised the need to develop and publicise their links . |
| 18 | In the last few years we have been promised ( and in the UK have never actually been given ) ready-made video programmes on EVR , requiring one set of equipment , and on videodisc , requiring another . |
| 19 | Over the last few years we had worked out a system of radio communication and coded grid references for use in joint exercises and actual operations against smuggling . |
| 20 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 21 | ‘ For the last few years we have been seriously handicapped by the fact that our second team have been unable to compete regularly against quality opposition . |
| 22 | Patricia McQuigg , the mother of one of his friends , says : ‘ Luke practically lived at my house during the last few years he was at school . |
| 23 | Over the last few years he has discussed many confidential matters with Prince Charles who has regularly visited his practice near Sloane Street . |
| 24 | He was not sure how she would take it , leaving the house before they had intended and moving up north ; also , in the last few years he had got into the habit of sparing her any unnecessary decisions or arguments . |
| 25 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
| 26 | In the last few years it has become clear that many other churches are working in this way in every denomination . |
| 27 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 28 | In the last few years it has been appreciated by the House of Commons that the method of scrutiny chosen was not best adapted to influence the final shape of Community legislation . |
| 29 | It was really only a very small group of students involved , but they got a lot of publicity and I think over the last few years it 's changed quite a lot . |
| 30 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |