Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] last [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DG has over the last three to four years put a good deal of energy into reducing that cost base , but now , even with a quarterly breakeven level reduced to $270m from $350m , the company is struggling to make ends meet . |
| 2 | The Strasbourg winger missed the opening games of the new season but has featured in the last four with no ill effects from his ligament damage . |
| 3 | Around the Stratford locomotive works a powerful cooperative movement had grown in the last third of the nineteenth century , and from the Beckton gasworks in 1889 new unionism had sprung . |
| 4 | Two aspects which will need careful consideration will be the future role of the Tate Gallery 's outposts , in Liverpool and elsewhere , and the special exhibiting needs of work produced in the last twenty to thirty years . |
| 5 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 6 | STEPHEN HENDRY last night advanced to the last eight of the Humo European Open in Antwerp with a narrow 5-4 victory over Dennis Taylor . |
| 7 | Let's look at the last two in more detail . |
| 8 | ‘ I certainly felt badly in need of a rest , having trained and played for the last two to three years virtually without a break . |
| 9 | I 've not cared for the last few at all , but this one I 'd definitely play on the radio . |
| 10 | Perhaps the majority of the " workhouses " still so called in the last third of the eighteenth century were in no real sense distinguishable from " poorhouses " , that is from places where the impotent poor , through age or infirmity , could be lodged either until death or more temporarily . |
| 11 | The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators says that demand for good qualified chartered secretaries has rocketed over the last three to four years . |
| 12 | If getting to the last eight of the Scottish Cup makes it look as if I have taken to management like a duck to water , I would be telling lies if I said the job was easy . |
| 13 | Also , the open D that is played at the last 16th of bar 1 may have been accidental , and if you agree with this you might wish to play the B on the 9th fret of the D string instead … |
| 14 | On the west lawn a large motor mower progressed slowly across the sward shaving off the last half-millimetre of grass before perfection . |
| 15 | The foundations of chemistry as a mature science had been laid in the last third of the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | The Institutional Shareholders ' Committee suggested that information relating to the proportion of current sales attributable to products introduced in the last three to five years would , with other data , provide a helpful indication of the return earned on R&D . |
| 17 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 18 | No England team have ever gone beyond the last eight in a World Cup played abroad , and the significance of their seeding this time will only become clear after tomorrow 's draw . |
| 19 | No England team have ever gone beyond the last eight in a World Cup played abroad , and the significance of their seeding this time will only become clear after tomorrow 's draw . |
| 20 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 21 | We can plausibly infer that crime has been increasing in the last two to three decades , presenting a problem for explanation and policy . |
| 22 | Over the next year or so , my constituents will see tremendous improvements , on top of what has been achieved during the last 12 to 18 months in terms of the quality and quantity of health care that they will receive from the Basildon and Thurrock NHS trust . |
| 23 | In biblical scholarship Nonconformist ministers were recognized by the last third of the century for their achievements and three — the Wesleyan , W. F. Moulton , the Unitarian , Dr Vance Smith , and the Baptist , Dr Joseph Angus — worked on the Revised Authorised Version between 1870 and 1873 . |
| 24 | ‘ The company has changed in the last four to five years , ’ John said . |
| 25 | THE Littlewoods Cup holders returned to the last eight of the competition last night in unusual and , Everton would claim , unjust circumstances . |
| 26 | THE Littlewoods Cup holders returned to the last eight of the competition last night in unusual and , Everton would claim , unjust circumstances . |