Example sentences of "[prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vocational training for the actor as we know it has only existed in England for the last eighty years . |
| 2 | Different generations are well represented here , from the newest professional at the beginning of her career to two who have been in the business for the last forty years . |
| 3 | The VAT returns for the last quarter are due in , and that big ( very profitable ) convention which took over the hotel for three weeks last year is imminent but you ca n't get at your data . |
| 4 | As I walked down the front steps for the last time , a feeling of elation swept over me . |
| 5 | For inexperienced pilots flying in light winds , a good general rule is to allow a maximum of 3 miles ' glide per 1,000 feet with nothing for the last 1,000 feet . |
| 6 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 7 | He remembered seeing his father 's face for the last time ; the coffin being lowered into its final resting place — and the hateful wake which followed . |
| 8 | The question is , for the last three years , who 's been helping to look after Mummy ? |
| 9 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 10 | On cold january nights , they camped out on platforms for the last experiences of ‘ Whistler ’ haulage , as the class of two hundred was whittled down to just one , the rebuilt , pioneer D200 . |
| 11 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
| 12 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 13 | The girl who has reached the human being in Raskolnikov the murderer is left for the last time by Svidrigailov ‘ bewildered and frightened , and filled with vague and oppressive suspicions ’ . |
| 14 | Incidentally , I have used projection television receivers at home for the last 40 years and , possibly their use does not require the eye to be concentrated in one continuous subtended angle , my in eyes in their fourth quarter century still resolve that one minute of arc ! |
| 15 | Australian Mutual Provident has been building up its stake in Pearl for the last two years . |
| 16 | As head of Radio 2 's music department for the last four years , Ms Line has been responsible for the blend of easy listening that makes up 80 per cent of its 24-hours-a-day output , along with presenters such as Derek Jameson and Jimmy Young . |
| 17 | ‘ I fought a number of battles but for the last 10 days before we left , because things did n't go too well , I was commanding the rearguard on the Aegean Sea . ’ |
| 18 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 19 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 20 | London 's venerable red and cream double-deckers rumbled along the Thames embankment for the last time in 1952 . |
| 21 | They had fallen behind when Simon Tracey , not for the last time , missed a corner and right-back Colin Hill poked Shane Westley 's header into his own net . |
| 22 | The victory maintained the monopoly of British and Irish-trained horses , who have now exported this prize for the last 11 years . |
| 23 | FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity . |
| 24 | Holyoak believes that the council has been bamboozled into adopting LET's monolithic scheme which has had outline planning permission for the last year . |
| 25 | His own firm had been picketed for the last five months in a dispute over the use of new technology . |
| 26 | Liam Carson , general manager / director of the Groucho Club , has worked in London restaurants for the last 15 years . |
| 27 | Engel is German by birth but has lived in Britain for the last 20 years , and this mixed background has been reflected not only in Melancholia 's plot but in its production history , as it has been co-financed by the British Film Institute and the Hamburg company Lichtblick . |
| 28 | For the last year of his life he suffered from myeloma , a form of bone cancer , and entered hospital for the last time in July where he made friends with another patient who , unfortunately , soon died . |
| 29 | For the last year of his life he suffered from myeloma , a form of bone cancer , and entered hospital for the last time in July where he made friends with another patient who , unfortunately , soon died . |
| 30 | So the song ‘ Sunday Papers ’ has had to go ( 'I re-wrote the lyrics for the last tour - called it ‘ Monday Papers ’ . |