Example sentences of "[coord] the last " in BNC.
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1 | Never be tempted to forfeit the last two bouts of a male team match , or the last bout of a female team match if you have already seen your team take the deciding first three/two victories . |
2 | This was a topical point as Faldo is currently ‘ up in the air ’ on whether he will play in the American Nabisco Grand Prix or the last European event , the Volvo Masters . |
3 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
4 | For the self-employed it is either the last 26 weeks or the last year 's set of accounts which are used . |
5 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
6 | For the self-employed it is either the last 26 weeks or the last year 's set of accounts which are used . |
7 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
8 | For the self-employed it is either the last 26 weeks or the last year 's set of accounts which are used . |
9 | You may decide that you wish to eat less in future and send the money you save to a worthy cause — but it 's far too late to do anything now with that extra roast potato or the last spoonful of pudding . |
10 | This is the last thing you will want following major surgery or illness or the last thing your family will want following your death . |
11 | His career was the subject of Bulwer Lytton 's novel , Rienzi , or the Last of the Tribunes ( 1835 ) . |
12 | not for the first , or the last time to come — |
13 | Still adhering to the old fashioned measurement by piece ( a cask which in Champagne contains 205 litres ) , the 2,666 litres of must , as it comes through the pressing operation , is separated into three portions in order of quality : the cuvée , which amounts to the first ten pieces ( 2,050 litres ) ; the premiere taille , which includes the next two pieces ( 410 litres ) ; and the deuxième taille , or the last piece ( 205 litres ) . |
14 | When Charley dies it will be like the end of an object or the closing of a book or the last date of an epoch . |
15 | Enjoy the first flowers of Spring or the last leaves of Autumn — on the longest night or the longest day ! |
16 | It ca n't be blamed on the unions or the last Labour Government . |
17 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |
18 | It would not be the first or the last time . |
19 | Was the man the last Minoan king or the last Minoan high-priest of Knossos ? |
20 | If A has one cable , it may be the end socket of a two-socket spur ( no spur allowed ) , or the last socket on a radial circuit ( spur permitted ) . |
21 | He was not the first , or the last , Home Secretary to be apprehensive of the clamourous demands he was likely to face . |
22 | As the view from its windows alters at sunset ‘ into a distant phantom ’ , so too will the house , ‘ not the first or the last of beautiful things that look so near and will so change ’ . |
23 | Whether the startling but short-lived explosion of punk rock represented the first sign of a new situational fracture ( new production methods ; ‘ outrageous ’ music ; independent operations ) , or the last twitch of the moment of ‘ pop culture ’ ( a rerun of rock 'n' roll do-it-yourself amateurism ) , or a less organic , conjunctural tremor ( like hip hop , ‘ charity rock ’ , Bruce Springsteen , Billy Bragg and many more ) is difficult to say . |
24 | Richard Branson gave some hundred press interviews , sipping discreetly at his champagne , acutely conscious of being , in his own phrase , ‘ on duty ’ , while the majority of passengers , blissfully unaware of the dramas of the last forty-eight hours — or the last four months — drank themselves into a condition of happy oblivion . |
25 | The accounting period adopted by most companies in the construction industry is either the last working day of the calendar month or the last day of the calendar month . |
26 | It was a term used by common soldiers — men who had shared a tent , a bowl of meat , or the last of the wine . |
27 | The company was undecided whether to adopt the First In First Out ( FIFO ) basis of stock valuation or the Last In First Out ( LIFO ) basis of stock valuation . |
28 | And when you 're starting to talk like that , everyone is discussing it according to their own experience or the last lesson they taught when this came up . |
29 | they 're advertising for the first time or the last ad |
30 | But , I have been a little concerned th th the the term , equal opportunities has n't been mentioned once today , and I would like a reassurance that it 's not because it 's year 's or the last decade 's issue . |