Example sentences of "his last few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 When he looked for his money , he found that he was down to his last few shillings .
2 His father would now and again telephone me saying that David was down to his last few pounds and that he worried about money .
3 He 's literally down to his last few pounds
4 Disgusted by the reaction to his last few films , Dustin locked himself in his New York home and became a virtual recluse .
5 He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature : his last few weeks before his death from cancer , which he fought uncomplainingly and with great courage , were spent in devising an entertainment , ‘ The French Revolution through British Eyes ’ , for the RSL .
6 How can a dealer spend his last few weeks in his present firm most productively ?
7 For his last few days in France , after Waterloo , the Emperor retired to La Malmaison , which had belonged to Josephine until her death in 1814 and now belonged to Hortense .
8 Dr Jim Howe , Tony 's doctor , said : ‘ His parents said how peaceful their son has looked over his last few days and how relieved they are that he is finally at rest . ’
9 I knew of that from him before he left , for he was going to spend his last few days before the flight actually on the site , refreshing his memory on certain details .
10 In his last few years Kuypers and Gabriella Ugolini made use of viruses which travel into the nervous system and multiply in a pathway so that they cross nervous junctions and spread detectably along a whole connected system : a quite novel labelling technique whose full potential now remains to be realised .
11 I wanted to live awhile among those who had been part of his childhood and his last few years .
12 These days he has plenty of time to run the legs off his dog Quintus in nearby Richmond Park , just outside London , to indulge his hobby of stamp collecting and just to read novels , something that went by the board during his last few years at the Foreign Office , familiarly known as the FO .
13 It had been a cold evening , heavily overcast , not a splink of moonlight to pierce the darkness of his last few miles .
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