Example sentences of "the last [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last EF1-11s based at Saudi arrived back at the Oxfordshire base at the weekend . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There have been people in Australia for the last 40000 years and claims for their presence there in the last interglacial have been made . |
| 4 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 5 | Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary . |
| 6 | Again there was a trend to increasing size , and they ultimately became the predominant land animal , expanding territorially during the last 70 million years of Paleozoic history and preying on the abundance of insects . |
| 7 | A NEW seam of Welsh gold — used for every Royal wedding ring for the last 70 years — has been found at a mine near Dolgellau . |
| 8 | The journal says that the evening service ‘ can only-be described as disgusting ; the last -TWO northbound buses were cancelled — and the one before ran early . ’ |
| 9 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 10 | Although China and Japan were the central areas for martial arts development over the last 2,000 years , many other countries in southeast Asia developed indigenous fighting systems , each of which , though perhaps not so well known , has produced great masters and thousand-years old traditions . |
| 11 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 12 | The work of the last four years . |
| 13 | Steffi Graf sailed through until Sanchez-Vicario whipped the rug from under her feet in the last four . |
| 14 | Also please note that any Training Fund applications submitted within the last four weeks for courses organised by the Training Division have already been forwarded to them for attention . |
| 15 | ‘ The company has changed in the last four to five years , ’ John said . |
| 16 | For example , the last four pages of Sir Bernard Caulfield 's summing-up to the jury in the Archer case is concerned with damages , and heavily stresses the aggravating factors . |
| 17 | A GENERATION ago mammalian neuroanatomy seemed a scholarly subject , a frame for functional studies but unlikely to provide an impetus for the astonishing advances in understanding of the brain over the last four decades , in which Hans Kuypers became one of the leaders . |
| 18 | As head of Radio 2 's music department for the last four years , Ms Line has been responsible for the blend of easy listening that makes up 80 per cent of its 24-hours-a-day output , along with presenters such as Derek Jameson and Jimmy Young . |
| 19 | Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before . |
| 20 | Their opponents tomorrow will be Spain , the second seeds , who overwhelmed the Soviet Union in the two singles matches to reach the last four . |
| 21 | Real have won the championship in each of the last four seasons , so that is almost taken for granted ; his job is to win the European Cup , which the club last lifted in 1966 . |
| 22 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 23 | It is good to report that branch membership has increased by 46% over the last four years . |
| 24 | In particular , we fixed the last four of those fuel tankers that have been awaiting gearbox spares . |
| 25 | In the last four days of his life , he could take nothing but whisky , administered to him by Warnie . |
| 26 | During the last four decades , the natural habitats of Britain 's wildlife have been ravaged by modern farming methods , urban sprawl and pollution . |
| 27 | Charles enjoyed the time he spent with his wife and children , but the events of the last four years had been no less momentous for him , and his way of coping with the stress and tensions in his life had always been by testing himself physically . |
| 28 | It has sold only two in the last four years . |
| 29 | The decision to put the technology division up for sale marks an about-turn for Chrysler which has spent more than $1billion in the last four years on its policy of diversifying out of cars into related areas . |
| 30 | The Australians ' red group counterparts , McEnroe and Grabb , also reached the last four when they brushed aside their fellow Americans Jim Courier and Pete Sampras 6-2 , 6-3 , 6-3 . |