Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [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 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | A powerful surge in handheld games consoles has taken place during the last year . |
| 7 | According to Tory thinking , a successful economic miracle has taken place over the last six years . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) The merger has taken place within the last six months ( unless it has taken place in secret ) . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | Anyone who has read SMALLHOLDER over the last few years will know I love the Autumn . |
| 11 | That is why we feel justified in saying that Realism has held sway for the last forty years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For a Government that claims to have offered choice for the last 13 years , their stance on this issue is odd . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The first surveyed 2,500 individuals of whom about one third had received training in the last 3 years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We 've got time before the last flight . ’ |
| 22 | I 've quartered Europe in the last few years . |
| 23 | Public concern about price liberalization had led to a wave of panic buying which had emptied shops in the last days of December . |
| 24 | She felt it unnecessary to mention some of the incidents that had taken place over the last few days , least of all the confrontation at the cottage the previous night . |
| 25 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |
| 26 | It found that ‘ little or no investment … on renovation or renewal works had taken place in the last century ’ . |
| 27 | Indeed , only 29 per cent of farmers had actually altered field boundaries between 1949 and 1 978 , and only one-third had reclaimed moorland in the last 7 to 1 5 years , and so the picture that emerges is one of a more dynamic profit-motivated minority replacing a more conservation and landscape-orientated majority where still 56 per cent of farmers are over 50 . |
| 28 | She had lost weight in the last few weeks and the jeans were a little loose about her waist . |
| 29 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 30 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |