Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] last [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | On the west lawn a large motor mower progressed slowly across the sward shaving off the last half-millimetre of grass before perfection . |
| 7 | The foundations of chemistry as a mature science had been laid in the last third of the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | THE Littlewoods Cup holders returned to the last eight of the competition last night in unusual and , Everton would claim , unjust circumstances . |
| 11 | THE Littlewoods Cup holders returned to the last eight of the competition last night in unusual and , Everton would claim , unjust circumstances . |