Example sentences of "[adj] for last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 51-country Asian Development Bank 's annual meeting in Vancouver , Canada , on April 24-26 failed to agree terms for a controversial replenishment of its soft loan window , the Asian Development Fund [ see p. 35206 for last replenishment in 1986 ] . |
| 2 | Seats in the new Olympic Gallery , which cost £40 each for last month 's game against Italy , have now been reduced to £20 . |
| 3 | Seats in the new Olympic Gallery , which cost £40 each for last month 's game against Italy , have now been reduced to £20 . |
| 4 | Only a slight change is forecast for the area of cereals this year which at 46,300 hectares is estimated to be less than 1pc below that for last year . |
| 5 | The latter started favourite for last year 's Champion but proved no match for Beech Road , though he is expected to become a stronger horse this season . |
| 6 | The waste contains tin oxide , in proportions too minute for last century 's miners to recover . |
| 7 | Okay , so much for last week . |
| 8 | Nielsen fit for last eight |
| 9 | Did they have oneof these for last year ? |
| 10 | The FA are closely monitoring Southampton 's disciplinary record after imposing a £20,000 fine for last season 's 80 bookings and five sendings-off . |
| 11 | Famous for last year 's ‘ £10 ( And £20 ) To Get In ’ , which introduced Suzanne Vega to the House scene long before DNA arrived , UK House team SHUT UP AND DANCE now offer us ‘ Rum And Black ’ , a powerful hiphouse jam , punctuated with a Joan Armatrading sample . |
| 12 | Famous for last year 's ‘ £10 ( And £20 ) To Get In ’ , which introduced Suzanne Vega to the House scene long before DNA arrived , UK House team SHUT UP AND DANCE now offer us ‘ Rum And Black ’ , a powerful hiphouse jam , punctuated with a Joan Armatrading sample . |
| 13 | The child can then put the same number of candles on it as his years , perhaps putting ‘ how many for last year ? ’ , ‘ four ’ and then one more for his ‘ fifth ’ birthday . |
| 14 | 357 shootings last year compared to 348 for last year . |
| 15 | Attendance figures were 550 , compared to 520 for last year 's event in Leeds but the high cost of the daily sessions deterred members from staying the full three days and led one disgruntled art historian to dub the conference ‘ pay and display ’ . |
| 16 | Supermarket giant Tesco unveiled profits up 31 p.c. at £545m on turnover of £7.6 billion for last year and chairman Sir Ian MacLaurin declared : ‘ It is a recovery . ’ |
| 17 | Though it was wary of placing too optimistic a gloss on the latest figures , the larger than expected PSBR surplus of £3.8 billion for last month was seen as a cautious signal that Mr Lamont will be able easily to avoid increasing the tax burden in next month 's Budget . |
| 18 | Both productions are designed and directed by the same team responsible for last year 's successful production of IOLANTHE . |
| 19 | She could n't be expected to hang around with the press and everyone else knowing that she was responsible for last night 's false alarm . |
| 20 | And which modules appeared in SCOTVEC 's top twenty for last session ? |
| 21 | Well I I think that the honourable gentleman really must accept that er coming from a party which is er in office in er in the Welsh office and has er two hundred million , two hundred and eight million pounds I think unaccounted for last year , it really ill becomes him er to lecture , to lecture anybody . |
| 22 | Fifteen thousand revellers squeezed onto the Castlemorton common for last weekends festival , many have now left . |
| 23 | The Commons and the Lords further approved on March 12 and March 19 respectively , the extension for a further 12 months of the emergency provisions and powers contained within the 1978 and 1987 Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Acts [ see p. 37099 for last 12-month extension ] . |
| 24 | Elections were held on Sept. 20 for Macao 's Legislative Assembly [ see p. 36765 for last Assembly elections in October 1988 ] . |
| 25 | I bought four for last week and I never got that and lucky I cancelled cos I did n't get back till nine o'clock ! |
| 26 | The Americans continue to have little interest in British acts apart from Right Said Fred — Vanessa Williams is number one in the States with Save the Best for Last — but our old mates the Aussies ca n't get enough of our lads . |
| 27 | And the 22-year-old marksman saved his best for last . |
| 28 | But somebody saved the best for last : when Christie cam out of the High Court with his windfall he discovered that this car , alone of all those in the road , had been clamped . |
| 29 | Keeping the best for last , as I was saying earlier ? |
| 30 | The number of people evicted for not paying their mortgages may still be below the estimate of 75,000 for last year , however . |