Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Francis Tidbury received a certain amount of sympathy over the following few days , but the public were so outraged at the brutality involved , it carried little weight . |
| 2 | To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc . |
| 3 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 4 | Two more recent developments have been home blood glucose monitoring and the glycosylated haemoglobin ( HbA 1 ) or fructosamine — indicators of the integrated blood glucose level over the preceding few weeks . |
| 5 | Her next door neighbour , a Mrs. Ellen Greaves , gave evidence that she had constantly challenged Esther Dyson in sign language ( which she had learnt through daily contact with the deaf brother and sister ) over the preceding few months about her being in the family way . |
| 6 | Since new SVQs are being accredited almost on a monthly basis , SCOTVEC is introducing ‘ SVQ Accreditation Update ’ which will list all accredited SVQs and those expected to be approved over the ensuing few months . |
| 7 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
| 8 | I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . |
| 9 | We have reviewed our corporate design over the past few months and as from November we will be presenting a new design for this newsletter series . |
| 10 | These numbers have increased considerably over the past few years , partly because income support is available to help cover the fees of residential and nursing home care , and money to pay for care at home is not easily available . |
| 11 | The result was an emphatic seven-try victory over a courageous side who , over the past few months in their own colours and in their other incarnation as the Canadian national team , have overwhelmed Japan and the United States and been pipped by Wales and Ireland ( minus their Lions ) after surrendering leads late on . |
| 12 | Over the past few years the bourgeoisie has taken probably £10bn of completely untaxed , totally unearned capital profit from selling their houses . |
| 13 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 14 | ‘ We received enough indications over the past few days that he could have gone through with it , ’ a senior spokesman said . |
| 15 | I write that the paradox is apparent because there have been signs of the same phenomenon in England over the past few seasons — and also because it is not at all surprising when you come to think about it . |
| 16 | OVER THE past few years Britain and her European allies have been trying to adapt a system designed to catch Warsaw Pact spies to the task of hunting international terrorists . |
| 17 | ‘ Not many of the original lot that landed at La Breche five days ago , ’ I replied , ‘ There have been a lot of casualties since the landing , many of them caused by mortar fire over the past few days . |
| 18 | The newsheet had started to appear over the past few days as the villagers began to return to their homes . |
| 19 | You did n't have to be an angry young man to look around the car industry over the past few weeks and despair of ever hearing any good news . |
| 20 | Thanks largely to our supporters around the world , we in UNICEF have put everything we can into our worldwide immunisation programme over the past few years . |
| 21 | After all , she has been asked the question several times over the past few days and will not say yes or no . |
| 22 | BEDS are being cleared in several London hospitals because of the large increase in influenza patients in the capital over the past few days . |
| 23 | BEDS are being cleared in several London hospitals because of the large increase in flu patients in the capital over the past few days . |
| 24 | ‘ Over the past few months , state security organs and border guards exposed and suppressed several attempts by special agencies of Afghan armed opposition forces to recruit Soviet citizens , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The report noted that over the past few years the government departments had introduced competitive fee bidding for the appointment of consulting engineers leading to lower fee rates . |
| 26 | Dutch football has been increasingly dogged by hooliganism over the past few years . |
| 27 | ‘ Over the past few months , state security organs and border guards exposed and suppressed several attempts by special agencies of Afghan armed opposition forces to recruit Soviet citizens , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Dutch football has been increasingly dogged by hooliganism over the past few years . |
| 29 | THE sickening events in Romania over the past few days now leave Albania as the last resort of old-style Stalinism . |
| 30 | Fortunately , over the past few years there have been attempts by social services and local authorities to review the value of care for young people . |