Example sentences of "the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coups , he wrote , were good , " the third especially was ferocious , and the last tender … " |
| 2 | So as yesterday 's half-year figures could be the last Tootal releases as an independent company , it is no surprise it worked hard to make them look good . |
| 3 | She took three aspirins from her handbag and swallowed them , grimacing , with the last tepid mouthful of tea . |
| 4 | The last EF1-11s based at Saudi arrived back at the Oxfordshire base at the weekend . |
| 5 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 6 | During the last interglacial reefs occurred ( Fig. 8.35A ) , but with the low sea level of the last glaciation ( Fig. 8.35B ) these were killed off in most areas . |
| 7 | Thus the atoll , which had existed in the last interglacial , reformed in the Post-glacial period ( Fig. 8.35C ) . |
| 8 | There have been people in Australia for the last 40000 years and claims for their presence there in the last interglacial have been made . |
| 9 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 10 | The route takes cracks left of Le Bon Sauveur to surely fill the last remaining square metre of unclimbed rock on this wall . |
| 11 | Ger Van Vliet , a Dutch botanist who heads the EC scientific working group on Cites , says wild orchids are easy to steal : ‘ I could walk into a forest in Sabah ( Borneo ) and take away the last remaining specimens of a rare species in one suitcase . ’ |
| 12 | We are working with a wide range of people throughout the world to find a balance between genuinely sustainable forestry and the outright protection of the last remaining virgin rainforest . |
| 13 | She returned to the brightly coloured pages of her magazine , leaving Frankie to eat the last remaining quarter of his jam sandwich in peace . |
| 14 | With its tirades against the ‘ unnatural alliance ’ between capitalism and Bolshevism , it appealed to the last remaining hope — the belief in the miracle of a split between the eastern and western allies and a new alliance between the Reich and the West against Bolshevism . |
| 15 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 16 | North of Trent the last remaining royal forest was Sherwood : here the Marquess of Newcastle held a Forest Eyre in 1663 , which was continued by his deputy by way of adjournment as late as 1676 . |
| 17 | Epping Forest was the last remaining portion of the forest of Essex : environmentalist objectives were achieved there by different means . |
| 18 | Nearly all the red-tiled-roof homes along the ridge line , high above Sarajevo , were deserted , with the last remaining people hurriedly packing their belongings on to cars and wagons . |
| 19 | Nottingham Forest0 Manchester United1 MANCHESTER United filled the last remaining gap in the Old Trafford trophy cabinet , as far as domestic competitions are concerned , at Wembley yesterday by winning the League Cup for the first time . |
| 20 | In 1866 the Austrians were thrown out of Venetia , and in 1870 the last remaining territory of the Papal states was annexed . |
| 21 | Even the Emperor himself was struck by this outcry , for in the last remaining days of peace his every appearance on the streets , driving from the Tuileries to Saint Cloud , provoked cries of ‘ A bas la Prusse ! ’ , |
| 22 | Forever a romantic , and sometimes painfully so , he stayed true to his belief that he was ‘ the last remaining cog in the Arndale Centre ’ ( Manchester 's hideous shopping centre ) . |
| 23 | This was constructed on the base of the last remaining toastrack 163 , which had been stored in Fleetwood Depot . |
| 24 | Wooden staithes can still be seen here ; among the last remaining . |
| 25 | HENDERSON ISLAND — a tiny British territory on the outskirts of eastern Polynesia — is one of the last remaining undisturbed islands in the South Pacific . |
| 26 | This move negates the last remaining advantage of the dying V2000 system developed by Philips and Grundig . |
| 27 | WWF has a strong connection with the last remaining rainforest in Nigeria , Oban . |
| 28 | The small , frightened freedoms that we enjoy are underpinned by a global system that requires that they be paid for by rigorous and intensifying dispossession of the poor of the earth , the destruction of the resource-base , the ousting of indigenous peoples who happen to occupy the last remaining deposits of ‘ raw materials ’ to which the global market now stakes its superior claim . |
| 29 | Towards the end of March , Friedrich von Hayek died : one of the last remaining examples of , in Perry Anderson 's words , ‘ a white emigration that rolled across the flat expanse of English intellectual life ’ . |
| 30 | Her will makes a careful list of most of her very ordinary possessions ; perhaps the most valuable , sentimentally and financially , goes to Samuel Wates , in the form of ‘ Uncle John 's silver watch ’ — possibly the last remaining memento of her deceased brother . |