Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one who contemplates the brutal war that has racked Croatia over the last few months can do so without a deep feeling of sorrow and shame : sorrow that such devastation and misery should disfigure our continent in 1991 , and shame that we have been unable to do anything to halt the carnage and destruction . |
| 2 | The period of authoritarian rule has given way during the last decade or so to a democratic system that is still consolidating itself . |
| 3 | it is this ‘ discreditation ’ of the object which has dominated art for the last half century — it all goes back to Monet ! |
| 4 | The springtime air over the Arctic region has become cleaner in the last decade as a result of anti-pollution measures introduced in Europe , North America and the former Soviet Union , researchers have discovered . |
| 5 | HILARY PARROTT enjoyed an overdue change of luck at Hereford yesterday when Dare Say took advantage of the last fence fall of Mweenish in the Hugh Sumner Challenge Bowl Handicap Chase . |
| 6 | The upsurge of interest in tachistoscopic laterality research which has taken place during the last two decades or so can be traced in part to the split-brain investigations and in part to an experiment conducted by Mishkin and Forgays ( 1952 ) . |
| 7 | A powerful surge in handheld games consoles has taken place during the last year . |
| 8 | According to Tory thinking , a successful economic miracle has taken place over the last six years . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) The merger has taken place within the last six months ( unless it has taken place in secret ) . |
| 10 | Maxton saw the Agreement as " the answer of the three most politically conscious and informed workers Parties in the country to a very widespread demand for unity that has been felt by every working class spokesman who has faced audiences during the last two years " . |
| 11 | Anyone who has read SMALLHOLDER over the last few years will know I love the Autumn . |
| 12 | That is why we feel justified in saying that Realism has held sway for the last forty years . |
| 13 | ‘ Those who might be safe would be still looking to win games in the last few weeks to improve their position . ’ |
| 14 | For instance , the use of purveyance began to attract criticism in the last fifteen years of the reign . |
| 15 | Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate . |
| 16 | Even though this was Jack 's own tournament , I decided to quit Jack after the last event of 1983 , the Chrysler Invitation , and start fresh with Greg next year . |
| 17 | If you wish to self-certify your earnings , you will have to supply accounts for the last year . |
| 18 | ‘ Or else the server would have to add poison at the last moment — surely very risky . |
| 19 | Erm Mr introduced the the the the the prospect that erm if they 'd have taken migration over the last three years , it would have been a much reduced figure . |
| 20 | For a Government that claims to have offered choice for the last 13 years , their stance on this issue is odd . |
| 21 | Moreover , as the chart also shows , the greatest part of the improvement appears to have taken place in the last few days — or even hours — of the campaign . |
| 22 | Its biggest benefactor is the property developer Godfrey Bradman , who is believed to have donated £250,000 to the last campaign , and has pledged £65,000 to the embryo Bill campaign . |
| 23 | The first surveyed 2,500 individuals of whom about one third had received training in the last 3 years . |
| 24 | Two of the bigger boys from Thorpe Street had once tried to outswing him for a dare , but Barry Lock had turned chicken at the last minute and Valance Fraser , who fancied himself as the cock of the street , had managed only a partial swing that left him dangling by his arms in the dirt . |
| 25 | As Joe walked away he felt that he had said goodbye to the last phase of his youth , and that his storm of weeping had swept him into manhood and away from all connection with the woman back in that room . |
| 26 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 27 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 28 | We 've got time before the last flight . ’ |
| 29 | I 've quartered Europe in the last few years . |
| 30 | Public concern about price liberalization had led to a wave of panic buying which had emptied shops in the last days of December . |