Example sentences of "for [art] last " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |
| 32 | For the last few years , increasing numbers of southern owners have been capitalising on the relative strength of property in the South . |
| 33 | It 's not possible really to understand Eastern Europe now unless you know a little bit about its history for the last 150 years . ’ |
| 34 | Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within . |
| 35 | Diana , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , hopes the boat will encourage more disabled people onto the water . |
| 36 | An intermittent moorland path to the coast , with a hard track for the last two miles before joining road ; route-finding moderately easy . |
| 37 | Diana Campbell , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , dreamt up the idea of a specially adapted dinghy sailing boat in the early seventies , and persuaded Roderick Macalpine-Downie to design it . |
| 38 | For the last weeks of his curacy he left the lodgings and hired a room in a small hotel up Mount Pleasant . |
| 39 | For the last seventy-three years the Bishop of Durham was a scholar ; five bishops in succession ranging from one who was among the leading minds of Europe to one who was more a publicist than a scholar but who still had academic interests . |
| 40 | Naturally , if he can borrow he borrows ; but that is a lark that has n't been ‘ on ’ in this country , taking one year with another , for the last ten years or more . |
| 41 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 42 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ muttered Phoebe ; she was not going to tell this woman that for the last six months she had done practically nothing else . |
| 43 | These will only be resolved in the course of an internal struggle , which will eventually produce governments neither more nor less enlightened than , for instance , those which have ruled over western Europe for the last five hundred years . |
| 44 | My club control a water I have been carp fishing for the last three seasons and have just imposed a hair rig ban . |
| 45 | Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping . |
| 46 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 47 | If a girl is lucky and her parents are alive , she goes to her mother 's house for the last few months of her pregnancy and about the first three months of the baby 's life . |
| 48 | ‘ Graham took second place at Watkins Glen before we went to South Africa for the last race . |
| 49 | For the last five years , a good friend of mine has suffered from panic attacks . |
| 50 | For the last year we have lived together in my flat . |
| 51 | Sleep-drugged figures stumble quietly around their bivouacs , feeling for the last few items of rain-sodden kit to stow in their bergens . |
| 52 | Sergeant Nafi is a Turkish Cypriot policeman Who has accompanied these patrols for the last fourteen years . |
| 53 | And soon we shall all meet again for the last time . |
| 54 | It is probably fanciful to cast Mrs Moore as Phaedra , or the P'daytabird as Theseus , but now Lewis was crossing the sea to see his father for the last time . |
| 55 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 56 | After several days of dividing their possessions into things they wished to keep and things which could be given away or sold , they were ready to leave the house for the last time . |
| 57 | And the language and idiom of the broadcasts has dated : ‘ There has been a great deal of soft soap talked about God for the last hundred years . |
| 58 | His main mission in life for the last ten years , as chief executive of an organization called Business in the Community ( BitC ) , has been to cut unemployment and regenerate the inner cities . |
| 59 | Although based in Cardiff , the Welsh National Opera tours extensively , and for the last twelve years has had a regular season in London too . |
| 60 | The conflict is played out for the last time in The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) , where the ballerina played by Moira Shearer initially lives unproblematically for her dancing , until she falls in love with a composer . |