Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the last [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Alistair MacDonald , the director , has seen the play germinate over the last 18 months from roots in the Gaelic Youth Theatre summer school in 1991 and an experimental workshop production at the Mod Fringe in Dingwall the same year .
2 ‘ Alan played a brilliant shot when he needed to open up the last two reds . ’
3 When the content of the advertisement has been confirmed and the advertisement initialled , MAS should carry out the last three steps shown for ‘ Placing a Business Opportunity advertisement by KPMG on behalf of a client ’ outlined below .
4 A. T. You used to accumulate this time you worked over and try and get off the last four hours when nobody was about .
5 The disclosure letter is then used by the vendor to describe any specific exceptions to the general statement , for example , two claims for unfair dismissal having been brought in the last six months .
6 Blank off the last 500 feet on the altimeter and practise guessing heights below 600 feet .
7 ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says .
8 I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth .
9 I was turned around and frog-marched to the last flight of stairs leading to the foyer , then thrown down the last six steps .
10 Students have worked over the last four years with Castle Eden Walkway and Cleveland Wildlife Trust in planting trees throughout Stockton .
11 So er to look at it er another way , w I , I 'll stop before I go back to the erm slides , because I want to show you a few on you know erm er the way that money 's worked over the last forty years , but if you look at index-linked certificates , cos somebody mentioned that , are they worth having ?
12 Erm , but , having been supported by each chief officer and general manager , you will see in paragraph eleven of the report , the various actions that have been taken over the last twelve months or so , and I would like to pick out particular the fact , that chief officers are now , operating or required to have effective arrangements for achieving equal opportunity in employment in their department or unit .
13 The great steps forward taken over the last 30 years have not been undone .
14 Sales were up by nineteen percent and there 's also firm evidence in these results of margin improvements which reflect , for the first time , the full benefit of our cost cutting measures taken over the last three years .
15 To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department has taken over the last 12 months to promote the carrying of organ transplant donor cards ; and if he will make a statement .
16 Batty said : ‘ It 's been murder sitting out the last eight games .
17 ‘ Even know you tried to pay back the last five shillings a few minutes before my father went to the synagogue one Saturday .
18 Take down the last three torches . ’
19 She 's just one victim of the burgeoning burglary business Which has seen one county Police force dealing with a near five times increase over the last thirteen years .
20 Laboriously the little creature laced up the last two strands of an otherwise perfect web , checked to see every strand was in place , then scuttled to the centre and sat there waiting .
21 Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement .
22 Experience over the last ten years ( 1963–73 ) has convinced the staff of this Polytechnic of the need for a more flexible type of course than is commonly offered to students .
23 Worcester finished on 184 for eight before a torrential thunderstorm washed out the last 90 minutes play .
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