Example sentences of "last few [noun] [noun pl] " 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 | This would give him time to get back to Mrs Lorimer 's , out of his jeans and grubby shirt , and into something that smelt less heavily of the smoke , sweat and beer of the Prince of Wales where he had spent most of the last few working days . |
| 3 | Christopher did n't reply , sensibly enough , thought Alan , and he listened to the clink of china and cutlery as the two women cleared the coffee cups and last few lunch things . |
| 4 | With regard to point ( c ) , I had been a teensy bit lazy in the last few maths lessons , not having worked on the set tasks with much enthusiasm at all . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But in the last few years feminists have begun to organise together as architects , housing workers , builders , designers etc , to question seriously assumptions around housing policy and structure ; assumptions held not only by politicians , housing officials and housing workers , but also by socialist housing activists . |
| 7 | In the last few weeks loads of newt tadpoles have hatched . |
| 8 | He fights off a last few body spasms , sighs like a siren winding down , and opens slitty eyes to see his Victory Bar . |