Example sentences of "last [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | These , obtainable from the court , last eight days , but the parents will have the right to appeal after 72 hours . |
| 2 | ‘ What has been presented as a simple pill-popping exercise is , in fact , an intensely medicalised and painful procedure which can need four clinic visits and last 12 days . ’ |
| 3 | Here is Mr Major 's diary for the last 12 days : Sunday , December 6 : Flies to The Hague Monday , 7 : AM , Breakfast with Dutch Prime Minister Lunch , with Irish Prime Minister in Dublin PM , flies home Tuesday , 8 : AM , sees Omani leader Lunch discussing Prime Minister 's Questions PM , Commons Evening , Gala Performance Wednesday , 9 : AM , meets European TUC Lunch , Israeli leader PM , Commons statement on separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana Thursday , 10 : AM , Cabinet Lunch , flies to Edinburgh PM , meets Delors Evening , dinner with Mr Mitterrand Friday , 11 : All day , EC Summit Evening , dinner on Royal Yacht Britannia Saturday , 12 : All day , EC Summit Evening , flies home Sunday , 13 : Home with Norma Monday , 14 : AM , meetings PM , Commons Evening , functions Tuesday , 15 : AM , Downing Street PM , Commons questions Evening , audience with the Queen 9pm , flight to Strasbourg Wednesday , 16 : AM , Euro Parliament Evening , flies home Thursday , 17 : 9.30am , Cabinet |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 5 | Think of these last few days . |
| 6 | Tall and slightly stooped , Yusupov normally shows a shy good humour in his conversation , but he has looked increasingly serious these last few days . |
| 7 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 8 | Look what has happened in the last few days . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've nursed some players through training these last few days , but he 's not one of them . ’ |
| 10 | We asked our panel whether they had , ‘ in the last few days , noticed anything in particular that Mrs Thatcher has said or done ’ ; and similar questions about Kinnock , Steel , Owen , and ‘ other ’ ( unspecified ) Conservative , Labour , and Alliance leaders . |
| 11 | ‘ As we have said several times in the last few days , ’ Hoare wrote to Neville Chamberlain on 31 August , ‘ we had some great good luck in the absence of Winston and L.G.' Having destroyed one coalition , Baldwin had no intention of entering another . |
| 12 | It had become increasingly clear over the last few days that the anger of East Germans is focused on the Communist Party and that it can only be a question of time before the party has to relinquish its leading role and allow political competition . |
| 13 | The fact that the hordes of reporters who live in the burrows of the Palace of Westminster got it wrong — and have since tried to justify getting it wrong — has given me , and many of my friends who knew the score pretty accurately before the result , much quiet pleasure over the last few days . |
| 14 | They reported that lorry-loads of files and documents had been taken from the bunker during the last few days . |
| 15 | They reported that lorry-loads of files and documents had been taken from the bunker during the last few days , and found glowing ash — ‘ evidence ’ of destroyed papers . |
| 16 | They reported that lorry-loads of files and documents had been taken from the bunker during the last few days , and said they had found glowing ash as evidence that papers had been destroyed . |
| 17 | ‘ The number of members has , over the last few days and weeks , dropped more dramatically than a barometer before an impending typhoon . ’ |
| 18 | Yet in the last few days the Romanians have started underplaying the role of Timisoara in sparking off open opposition to Ceausescu , highlighting instead the undoubtedly fearless role of the citizens of Bucharest . |
| 19 | If she was not his mother , she had still crammed a lot of mothering , good and bad , into the last few days . |
| 20 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 21 | I was also surprised to hear that during the last few days her Premium Bond had won £5,000 . |
| 22 | I 've been very busy these last few days . |
| 23 | So an important decision has to be made in a hurry by people who are clearly affected by the events of the last few days . |
| 24 | When the engagements are abroad , I work feverishly in the last few days and nights to create a reasonably finished piece of work — just in case we crash . |
| 25 | This is , of course , a time of smokescreens so far as the Masters is concerned and to hear some of the Europeans talk over the last few days , they appear to be in need of the psychiatrist 's couch as much as anything . |
| 26 | The Labour leader described the Home Secretary 's comments as ‘ peculiar ’ and insisted that race should remain firmly in the background as a potential issue in the last few days of the campaign . |
| 27 | Having fallen back from about 360p to 320p over the last few days , Fisons ' top management was busy round at Hoare Govett yesterday , trying to reassure nervous institutions investors . |
| 28 | It seems clear that several million voters have still not made up their minds , and there is therefore an added incentive in the last few days to influence them . |
| 29 | Market makers have been running ‘ flat ’ trading books over the last few days to minimise their risk . |
| 30 | Mrs Leinen is spending her last few days with the children taking them for trips , including to London Zoo and the seaside . |