Example sentences of "last few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archaeologists and historians studying the period since writing has been in use — the last few thousand years — examine different types of evidence , although they overlap at many points . |
| 2 | Botanically , oases contain only the alga-lichen-moss communities that would be expected in continental habitats relatively recently freed from ice ( i.e. during the last few thousand years ) , where water is scarce and winds are strong . |
| 3 | Soil erosion , run off , and soil movement downhill on the chalk uplands , together with solution of the chalk subsoil beneath , has resulted in major changes in soil quality and depth over the last few thousand years . |
| 4 | An hour later she added the last few remaining sticks and huddled down again . |
| 5 | WELSH RUGBY was united for the first time in the last few stormy months when the 203 member clubs of the Welsh Rugby Union decided to sever playing links with South Africa last night . |
| 6 | I wish the skiing industry and skiers every success for many seasons to come , but I do not think that the last few indifferent seasons have a timely message . |
| 7 | The friends she had made were the dependable , kindly sort of people whose company would give her pleasure and support in the years to come , as their affection towards her , in these last few terrible weeks , had shown so clearly . |
| 8 | Sgurr a' Mhaim was my 5Oth Munro , but as I hauled my dejected little body up the last few hundred feet , I was thinking only of rest , not triumph . |
| 9 | This caused me to run out of aft trim i.e. I could n't take my hands off — and she did n't feel quite so rock-like and stable coming down the last few hundred feet , but the resulting touchdown was smoother and shorter . |
| 10 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 11 | It is a veritable relic from the past to be observed in a setting which has changed little in the last few hundred years , thus making the pervading atmosphere one of awesome pastoral antiquity . |
| 12 | It has also been suggested that the Bond albedo was lower within the last few hundred years and that the atmosphere is still cooling as Jupiter adjusts to its new higher albedo . |
| 13 | Historically , world society has become a believable idea only in the last few hundred years , and science , technology , industry , and universal values are creating a twentieth century world that is different from any past age . |
| 14 | These cover a large range of things , like the patient 's age , the patient 's sex , where the pain is , where it started , how quickly it came on , and so on and so forth , and essentially within the computer has a large table , and this table contains , how shall I put it , the frequency with which this particular symptom was associated with a particular disease over the last few hundred patients that have been seen at that hospital . |
| 15 | Down to his last few hundred dollars , and with nothing but the good offices of a public defender standing between him and the octopus , it was time to evacuate the hostages . |
| 16 | For the last few hundred yards they trundled slowly behind a cab . |
| 17 | he deserves a happier memorial than the one afforded him by his last few crazy hours on the dance-floor and the street . |
| 18 | ‘ Civil manner ? ’ asked Sarella blankly , wondering if she had actually imagined the last few overheated moments . |
| 19 | As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun — |
| 20 | She lay back , her body rigid , as she reviewed the last few catastrophic days of her life . |
| 21 | I broke off branches of deep purple cherries devouring enough vitamin C for the rest of the length of the canal if walked it had to be , waving their thick-leaved wands at the flies , as I plodded the day 's last few solitary miles . |
| 22 | ‘ Friends , Romans and countrypersons , ’ Elinor said , ‘ we want to thank you all for your support in these last few difficult weeks . |
| 23 | In parts of India , goats graze the cotton after harvest and so remove the last few infested bolls and stalks . |