Example sentences of "only the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is PCB-burning capacity in Sweden , Finland , Germany and France , of which only the last is , like Britain , prepared to import such waste . |
| 2 | Only the last survived a long complicated life as a passion , and led to her single-handed revival of the eighteenth-century art of shell pictures , an obsessive pursuit of Irish aristocratic ladies in the time of Sheridan and Goldsmith . |
| 3 | In practice , only the last two of these options look feasible . |
| 4 | It was only the last and biggest headline-grabber — Sir James Goldsmith 's failed bid in 1989 for B.A.T Industries — that threatened to bring junk to London . |
| 5 | Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough . |
| 6 | Of these , only the last is perhaps contentious . |
| 7 | Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume . |
| 8 | However , only the last version is saved ; any earlier versions are lost . |
| 9 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |
| 10 | You can extend this kind of exercise almost endlessly , but it is vitally important to use the form of the same complete up-to-time sentence for each exercise , leaving only the last bit that changes . |
| 11 | Only the last of these pieces of information is accurate . |
| 12 | Only the last two ballot boxes overturned his lead . |
| 13 | It happens that only the last of these verb phrases is standard English . |
| 14 | Only the last was pretty , and younger than the rest . |
| 15 | In only the last two years I 've noticed that more people are being drawn to the hills in Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | Only the last demurred , and rightly or wrongly Anselm overrode the objectors , told the monks of Bec to elect as abbot the man whom he believed to be most fitted , and finally accepted the archbishopric . |
| 17 | The bomb had been a direct hit and only the last few dwellings had still been standing afterwards . |
| 18 | Only the last ingredient was available . |
| 19 | The deletion detected by the 1,412-bp probe includes only the last exon of the P gene ( Fig. 3 a , and unpublished data ) . |
| 20 | Going to the Spice Islands was only the last stage of increasingly ambitious ventures . |
| 21 | But this was only the last stage in the process . |
| 22 | Although it will attract the lion 's share of attention , the exhibition is , in fact , only the last link in a chain of new developments in Magritte studies , for a fresh monograph and the first of five projected volumes of a catalogue raisonné are being published this month . |
| 23 | Not only the last , but also those other alterations in attitude to domestic environment mentioned earlier , which seem to occur between 1817 and 1837 , combine to give a building and its contents a quite different claim upon the imagination from their significance in Jane Austen 's time . |
| 24 | He says ‘ the demand for the all-round grocery clerk , fruiterer and vegetable dealer , dairyman , butcher , and so forth , has long ago been replaced by a labor configuration in the supermarkets which calls for truck unloaders , shelf stockers , checkout clerks , meat wrappers , and meat cutters ; of these only the last retain any semblance of skill , and none require any general knowledge of retail trade ’ . |
| 25 | With a view to persuading your Lordships to restore the order of Buckley J. , the plaintiffs , who are the appellants in the circumstances described , have put their argument in a number of different ways , but only the last need , in my opinion , seriously occupy your Lordships ' attention . |
| 26 | Three levels of assessment are envisaged , and most people think that only the last of these — a complex assessment — will be new . |
| 27 | 1–9 Great preparations had been made for observing the total eclipse of the moon but owing to thick cloud only the last of it was seen . |
| 28 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's as if only the last few hours of my life were real . |
| 30 | And this kiss was meaningless , because there was nothing behind it ; it was only the last flickering spark of something they had destroyed a long time ago . |