Example sentences of "of the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | This stance is partly a reaction against what Krauss saw as a dominant position in American criticism , by which ‘ the art of the last hundred and thirty years , the art of modernism , is not being well served by writing that promotes the myths through which it can be consistently misread ’ . |
| 2 | But these fine ladies and their tea-drinkings , husband-huntings , etc. , etc. , etc. , will job me out of the last ten years , and I fear miss getting husbands too . |
| 3 | The literary naturalism of the last century went to the poor and itemised their way of life , producing for adversity truthful , distressing inventories and interiors — as in George Moore 's novel of the Nineties , Esther Waters , which starts with a manor-house , servants and horses , and travels to Soho for compulsive gambling and a fatal cough . |
| 4 | I do n't suggest that these unfavourable writings pushed him to do what he did , though I do n't mind suggesting that the bigotry and vicarious piety they may be reckoned to contain could be classed among the negative experiences of the last months of his life . |
| 5 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 6 | Interestingly , though , most of the audition selections are chosen from work of the last twenty years ; most young students will go for contemporary work . |
| 7 | I can remember doing Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Theatre with the NYT and seeing all the scenery and lighting down on the stage at the end of the last performance and thinking how exciting it was to belong to the world of make-believe . |
| 8 | The economic growth of the 1960s and early 1970s came to grief because of the western economic slump of the last decade and the massive increase in the Southern population . |
| 9 | The work of the last four years . |
| 10 | After the patience of the last few years , he wrote , why this sudden impatience ? |
| 11 | Mild ale is one of the last surviving examples of the type of beer the whole world drank until new developments in Britain and Europe introduced lighter coloured brews . |
| 12 | ‘ No , no , ’ the Finnish detective said , shaking his head as if to rid himself of the last remnants of misunderstanding . |
| 13 | The end of the last chapter was , you might think , a suitable place to end the book , but it was n't , properly speaking , the end of my blue period . |
| 14 | ‘ She is , ’ said Jay boring Francis sick with a detailed analysis of the last conversation she 'd had with Lucy . |
| 15 | Many did so think , and fear ; and saw nothing in the religious experience — or that to which it pointed — of the last decade and a half to cause them to think otherwise . |
| 16 | From William James at the end of the last century to the present day , psychologists have speculated and experimented to discover how this is done . |
| 17 | 1,607,000 pensions ( single people or couples ) in Great Britain were receiving income support at the time of the last available figures ( May 1989 ) . |
| 18 | It should be added that though this book is about BR , the 1980s also saw the opening of the last section of the Tyne & Wear Metro in March 1984 and the launch of the stillexpanding Docklands Light Railway in July 1987 . |
| 19 | Almost unnoticed was the exit of the last 0-4-0 locomotive , latterly represented by the 204hp Andrew Barclay Class 06 dock shunter in Scotland ( and departmental service in England ) , and the three curious Class 13 700hp hump shunters formed of two Class 08s in permanent formations . |
| 20 | Outlines of hut circles , still visible , suggest there was a permanent Brigante settlement here , supposedly one of the last strongholds against the Romans . |
| 21 | At the same time Russia and Eastern Europe are discarding the shackles of the last 40-odd years . |
| 22 | And then there is the insolence of the last line : ‘ sunset grand couturier ’ . |
| 23 | If , on the other hand , from some consciousness of immaculate rectitude , we follow Allen Ginsberg in giving Pound a kiss of forgiveness — and it is in effect what David Heymann does towards the end of The Last Rower — it is poetry that we are presuming to forgive , not the man but ‘ the-man-as-poet ’ . |
| 24 | And during the years when Pound was most under Yeats 's influence , Pound too embraced this ideal — as when in 1912 he went with Yeats and some others to pay an act of homage to one of the last English representatives of the type , the Sussex squire Wilfred Scawen Blunt : |
| 25 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |
| 26 | He cited the experience of the last Labour government in being forced to deal with the International Monetary Fund as further proof of the need to stick to fundamental socialism . |
| 27 | It is now revealed to be Blue period — but one of the last paintings of this series . |
| 28 | The party leadership wanted to ban all strikes because it is terrified of an upsurge in Russian and Ukrainian working-class militancy which , it correctly realises , could be more dangerous to the regime than all the ethnic disturbances of the last few years combined . |
| 29 | Suzanne Greenhill , 20 , had been blindfolded — depriving her of the last sense she could have used to identify the attacker — and her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth . |
| 30 | Yesterday , he produced his second extraordinary escape act in succession by coming from behind to win 10-15 , 9-15 , 15-13 , 15-12 , 15-10 , against an opponent who has been in both of the last two world title-winning teams . |