Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Number of new sales/new customers ( compared with colleagues or with last year 's figures ) |
| 2 | This has been caused by infected suburban foxes from the east ( where until last month there was no vaccination programme ) finding their way into the city centre and crossing what was once the border into West Berlin . |
| 3 | Nevertheless he faces a huge step up when he sets out from Chester in 123rd position in a race that will decide the final destination of the FIA World Rally Championship , which must go to either France 's Didier Auriol , or Carlos Sainz of Spain , or to last year 's RAC winner Juha Kankkunen . |
| 4 | She almost wept with relief as his strong fingers closed round her hand and guided her to the safety of a broad platform of stone , where at last it was possible to stand upright . |
| 5 | He want into the huge dining room , where at last he found Alfred arranging bottles on the serving tables . |
| 6 | If a woman becomes weary , or at last dead , from child-bearing , it matters not ; let her only die from bearing , she is there to do it . |
| 7 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that in my constituency there has been no major industry since 1979 , except for last year when two British companies sold their businesses to the Taiwanese ? |
| 8 | In an interview , Mr Baig alleged that during last year 's general election campaign , three cabinet members had received financial assistance from him . |
| 9 | People living near the site say that during last years festival their lives were made a misery . |
| 10 | Scudamore has reached the half century in 12 fewer days than during last season 's fantastic voyage into jumping history . |
| 11 | Birth Control Trust spokeswoman Madeleine Simms pointed out that after last year 's survey was published , the DHSS said it was unlikely the results of a single poll would be a suitable basis for new and highly controversial legislation . |
| 12 | Police have warned that despite last nights events , car thieves will not be allowed a free ride in the Oxford area . |
| 13 | The number of women elected to the Church 's Parliament is double that of last time , and those in favour of women priests , are confident that they 've secured the required majority to have their way by nineteen ninety five . |
| 14 | Still , one could not help but feel that with Last Supper Frank had sold himself short . |
| 15 | They resisted using that until last year , so let's get the facts straight . |
| 16 | Local party officials tell us that in last November 's by-election they pushed hard for the campaign slogan ‘ Ashok to the Tories . ’ |
| 17 | MIPS Computer Systems Inc vice president of software technology , and now its ACE liaison , Larry Weber , said that since last summer Intel was repeatedly approached by ACE members including Olivetti , Acer , Compaq and MIPS asking it to somehow endorse and participate in the Initiative . |
| 18 | Why does not he admit that since last year 's Budget more than 500,000 people have been added to the dole queue ? |
| 19 | ‘ She 's been saying that since last November … |
| 20 | Perhaps this was why , uncharacteristically , he burst out aloud with the thought that at last chased the nursery rhyme momentarily from his mind . |
| 21 | Twice , White lost European finals to him ; , on the last occasion , in 1988 , he lost on a rather harsh penalty , but knew that at last he had the measure of the Frenchman . |
| 22 | He played the game of Murder in the dark through the vast rooms of the bishop 's vast palace and told his nonconformist father that at last he found a reason why bishops should live in such large houses . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , ’ Arty said , feeling that at last he had someone who understood hi m and was taking his case seriously . |
| 24 | With a loyal and loving woman behind him and the semblance of domestic life , he hoped that at last Modi would settle down and produce more paintings . |
| 25 | Back at the rendezvous Stirling felt better after the usual tea laced with rum and was pleased that at last his team had managed to destroy some aircraft . |
| 26 | ‘ Thank goodness that at last I shall be able to come from Stowbridge by the short way and under the low bridge ! ’ he said . |
| 27 | And you would know that at last he had called his own bluff . |
| 28 | The former welcomes the unexpected certainty that at last ‘ we shall all know what they are all learning in school ’ , while the latter sees entitlement as finally pinning down the right of every child , be their circumstances never so mean or deprived , to access to science , maths , modern languages , and so on . |
| 29 | The RAF ground crews , the unsung heroes of this time , continued to work round the clock , the air crews seemed never to be out of their aeroplanes , and the rest of us waltzed through our duties with the exhilarating feeling that at last things were on the move in the right direction . |
| 30 | They argue , somewhat surprisingly , that it is a mistake to meet it by trying to ‘ upgrade the imagined simulation in hopes of finally winning Searle 's concession that at last its states have achieved intrinsic intentionality ’ . |