Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for the last [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 3 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 4 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 5 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 6 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 7 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 8 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 9 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 10 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |