Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Jenkins of Pontypridd was badly exposed last season and the summer tour to Australia was truly a baptism by fire , but he has the physique to return to the top level if his confidence can be restored . |
| 2 | Manchester University 's Computing Centre will soon boast the largest single computational node in the UK when it replaces its VP1200 supercomputer with a VPX240/10 machine from Fujitsu Systems Business ( Europe ) : it is the first Fujitsu VPX machine to be sold in the UK since launch last year 's launch and features one scalar processor , one 2.5GFLOPS vector processor , 1Gb main memory , 1Gb of secondary memory ; it is four times faster than the five-year-old system it is replacing and will be used for computational fluid dynamics and engineering research ; delivery is planned for July ; no price was given . |
| 3 | Dun says it has done $5m of business on SmartStream since launch last summer , has some 30 customers , with five orders over $300,000 : the software is aimed at organisations doing $150m a year and up . |
| 4 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 5 | Since battle had been effectively joined last spring , when Major first considered going to the country , the parties had bludgeoned themselves into mutual exhaustion before the final clash of arms . |
| 6 | A BELFAST hospital security guard was shot and badly wounded last night . |
| 7 | She 's had four serious breaks in the past twenty years , and lost two inches in height … but was only diagnosed last year . |
| 8 | Did n't get any , much sleep last night . |
| 9 | Six of those victims were claimed during the match against Australia four years ago , shortly before he signed up with Mike Gatting 's ‘ rebels ’ and sentenced himself to a ban which was only lifted last autumn . |
| 10 | can tell his white brick work , that were only done last year was n't it ? |
| 11 | If art is an attempt to impose structure and meaning onto this chaos , there is no artefact more deliberately structured than the contemporary Hollywood movie , designed to prise money from the masses and reasssure them that good guys do n't necessarily finish last . |
| 12 | Seriously , can anyone give us news on how Tinkler 's recovering , and also on whether Forrester , Sharp , and Bowman ( who all played last year ) look like getting a game in the near future . |
| 13 | So we have no knowledge on that and Peter and team working and Tony is in the , the body of the hall we had quite an extensive discussion over a period of time but perhaps cumulating last Friday , a week last Friday , on the N treble C and we are calling a special lay- delegates conference on the first of July in Sheffield , with one item on the agenda team working . |
| 14 | Yeah , it only happened last week , Thursday |
| 15 | Some weeks ago , I went to a most exciting block of modern flats called Waterside Point , near Battersea Bridge , that only opened last year . |
| 16 | Also , Christie 's tell me that their film and entertainment sale of December 1991 saw a mere 10 per cent unsold by value and a paltry 25 per cent unsold by lot , which of course does not add up to ‘ a third of the lots ’ unsold , as I wrongly stated last week . |
| 17 | I grabbed the top of the fence and pulled myself up until I could rest my forearms there , keeping myself about a foot off the ground by skidding the toes of my trainers — only cleaned last week as well — into the wet wood . |
| 18 | Decide if you are going to have any special sales offers or promotions ( eg selling last season 's Christmas cards at a reduced price , or a promotion on wrapping paper — 10p a sheet or six sheets for 50p ) . |
| 19 | The incident began this morning in a category-B jail which only opened last summer , and was described then as the flagship of the prison system |
| 20 | ‘ We learnt of it a fortnight since , ’ said Aranyos , ‘ but I was only told last week . |
| 21 | Markets have been buoyant following a thirteen percent gain on the Niki Index , it 's the largest ever one day gain , though this merely reversed last week 's dramatic falls . |
| 22 | Solaris-on-Intel , work on which only began last January , will be available to developers from the third quarter , and will require a minimum configuration of a 33MHz 80386 with 80387 co-processor , or 25MHz , 33MHz , or 50MHz 80486DX , 80486DX2 or 80486SX with an 80487SX co-processor . |
| 23 | Only started last night . |
| 24 | All pretty informal — we only decided last night . |
| 25 | About 70,000 vehicles are alleged to have been so financed last year and , by December , this figure was said to have risen to 17,000 a month at $25,000 ( £14,200 ) per vehicle . |
| 26 | The painting dates from around 1903–05 but was only rediscovered last year in New England , where it had been bought for $175 in 1905 when the artist made a trip abroad to find a new audience for his Nihonga work . |
| 27 | ‘ I know that old Sir David only died last year — just before my own father — and I realise that she must be worried sick about poor Owen . |
| 28 | This lavatera ( shrubby mallow ) flowers on wood made in the same season , so cut last year 's branches hard back in spring . |
| 29 | Earlier , Price came from 3-1 down to beat last year 's runner-up , Mark Johnston-Allan , 5-3. 930219 |
| 30 | One was a £230,000 ‘ compensation for loss of office ’ , the bulk of which went to the former chief executive , Emmanuel Olympitis , who suddenly departed last month . |