Example sentences of "through the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would help the farmers through the first few difficult years of transition . |
| 2 | Medication is not always the right resource in times of distress , but there are certain situations that are so terrible that you will need something to help you through the first few months . |
| 3 | She ran through the first few pages of each of the paperbacks , her mouth falling open as she read . |
| 4 | Sabrina opened the top file and leafed through the first few invoices . |
| 5 | He reached across and picked one up , flicking through the first few pages . |
| 6 | Let's briefly go through the first few generations of the main line of evolution in Figure 4 . |
| 7 | You certainly shoot through the first few ch chapters of that anyway . |
| 8 | I do not know how I came through the next few months — but , yes , I do . |
| 9 | The woman wore a dress that seemed very short when I recalled the picture through the next few years : broad shoulders , a straight skirt that hung the way it did — I know now — because it had some rayon in it . |
| 10 | ‘ Just remember that and we might — just might — be able to get through the next few days without any major problems . ’ |
| 11 | She would get through the next few days of being in the same house as Piers and then she would leave , and she would somehow get through the rest of her life without him . |
| 12 | How she managed to get through the next few hours mystified her . |
| 13 | The numbing stupor got her through the next few hours . |
| 14 | Busacher rather thought they would rub through the next few days without an open revolt from Gesner . |
| 15 | ‘ I was just wondering how we were going to get through the next few hours . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was a slow-going mile , but towards the end one could hear occasional cars along the road ahead and Gareth and Coconut with whoops crashed through the last few yards , again , as the week before , relieved to be back in the space age . |
| 18 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |
| 19 | She ran through the last few streets and saw with relief the familiar tall building rising against the night sky . |
| 20 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |