Example sentences of "the last few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are equally aware that achieving the last few percentage points in performance of ten causes a disproportionate increase in costs . |
| 2 | The last few houses there are derelict and due for demolition . |
| 3 | Some very bad-luck cases come to mind of apparently indestructible characters who were chopped on the last few sorties — 97th or 98th . |
| 4 | What you will think of it , I suspect , depends on your zodiac sign or whether you blubbed through the last few minutes of Peter Weir 's Dead Poets Society . |
| 5 | What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With the crews overlapping until the last few minutes of the 4¼-mile race , it had been a gruelling test for all . |
| 8 | For the last few minutes , she had been travelling in parallel to her previous route . |
| 9 | Having spent the last few minutes in preparation for the strain of an interview with Davout , Thiercelin almost visibly relaxed . |
| 10 | I just caught the last few minutes of a Yorkshire TV documentary , ‘ England 's Last Wilderness ’ , with David Bellamy burbling about the Pennines . |
| 11 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |
| 12 | Cook the rice as indicated on the packet and cook the frozen petits pois with the rice for the last few minutes . |
| 13 | For the last few minutes before Ellen appeared , Ruth stood by the window , looking down the dale . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 16 | ‘ The last few minutes were a real scramble , but we got the luck we deserved and it is good to win the derby games . |
| 17 | Some kind of crisis had developed in the last few minutes , and she did n't know why she felt afraid . |
| 18 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 19 | Melanie , their new PR , has been watching proceedings for the last few minutes . |
| 20 | Gradually , over the last few minutes , I had become conscious.of a growing discomfort , a tickling , burning sensation in the face and hands , and even In my hair a stinging sort of unpleasantness that suddenly became insupportable . |
| 21 | Neither man had spoken for the last few minutes . |
| 22 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 23 | During the last few minutes Hazel had been as near to losing his head as he was ever to come . |
| 24 | But the last few minutes before their arrival fled by . |
| 25 | Do n't wait until the last few minutes ; it may be too late . |
| 26 | Finally , proceed in the last few minutes to the last two of the seven stages — IL and E. |
| 27 | There is a summary , your proof , your appendices , there 's a letter dated the fourth of February from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust , there is a special statement , and last , and only just received in the last few minutes , there is a supplementary note by Doctor on the Greater Crested Newt and its importance in relation to Skelton Pond . |
| 28 | In the last few minutes of the Committee stage we had an interesting debate when the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) defended what had happened . |
| 29 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 30 | The match resumed and the two sides remained locked in fairly even combat until , in the last few minutes , a goal-mouth scramble enabled the home team to snatch the solitary goal and two points that would take them nowhere near the top of their league . |