Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | As communication between Chinese Christians and Christians from around the world has grown over the last few years , the need for a regular English language update of information on Church life in China at all levels has been expressed in many quarters . |
| 2 | ‘ I am delighted that they are doing so well in Darlington and that the company has expanded over the last few years . ’ |
| 3 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 4 | Fergie was not , strictly speaking , Diana 's type ; she was certainly not like her old friends , nor indeed many of the friends she has made in the last few years . |
| 5 | To maintain the advances that it has made in the last few years , Unix needs not only a ‘ viable ’ desktop environment , argues UI , but an attractively sized market for developers to aim at . |
| 6 | It will show you how far our technology has advanced in the last few years . |
| 7 | ‘ This means a colossal amount of ozone has disappeared in the last few weeks , ’ Bill Jeffries , New Zealand 's Minister in charge of the Meteorological Service , said yesterday . |
| 8 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 9 | Lafaille , a 26-years-old professional guide from Gap , has emerged in the last few years as a climber of unique all round ability . |
| 10 | Unlike most manufactured goods , however , the real price of most services has increased over the last few decades . |
| 11 | One of the reasons why the range of special paints has diminished over the last few years is that ordinary paints and primers are so good . |
| 12 | Look what has happened in the last few days . |
| 13 | I have a high regard for Foresterhill and what it has achieved in the last few years under this Government . |
| 14 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 15 | The fresh , country look has evolved over the last few years as people have begun to paint wooden units and replace solid doors with glazed doors to create a lighter atmosphere . |
| 16 | In some areas the precise details of the ban coverage has changed over the last few years and climber are requested to check that they re aware of these updates . |
| 17 | Announcing the decision , Defence Under-Secretary Lord Cranbourne said : " The culture and climate has changed in the last few months … |
| 18 | Simon Griffiths , a hospital spokesman , said last night : ‘ Mrs Barnett 's general condition has improved over the last few hours and her liver is functioning well . ’ |
| 19 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 20 | ‘ Anything could have happened over the last few days . ’ |
| 21 | Barring some abrupt turn in the diplomacy , the chances of fighting having begun in the next few weeks are high . |
| 22 | He did not expect domestic coal supplies to be insulated from world price trends — especially as government grants to the National Coal Board will have to rise over the next few years . |
| 23 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 24 | How is it that this problem seems only to have emerged in the last few years . |
| 25 | The position of women is often considered to have improved during the last few decades . |
| 26 | it seems to have changed over the last few years |
| 27 | Some kind of crisis had developed in the last few minutes , and she did n't know why she felt afraid . |
| 28 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
| 29 | Matt wanted to know how her parents had fared over the last few years , and as we were about to leave the table he asked her to stay and tell him about them . |
| 30 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |