Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 2 | Top left represents SQL life cycle tools , which are tools which have has been delivering for the last three years which address each of the needs of the entire project life cycle . |
| 3 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 4 | ‘ This time was a much more pleasant occasion , ’ said John , 45 , who has been running for the last seven years . |
| 5 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 6 | But if the black hole has been emitting for the last ten or twenty thousand million years , the chance of it reaching the end of its life within the next few years , rather than several million years in the past or future , is really rather small ! |
| 7 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based company has been working over the last few months to staff up a new business unit to concentrate on low-end multi-processors , an area it feels offers great potential . |
| 8 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 9 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 10 | The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 . |
| 11 | We can plausibly infer that crime has been increasing in the last two to three decades , presenting a problem for explanation and policy . |
| 12 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 13 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 14 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 15 | On the seminary hill a strange edifice had been constructing over the last previous months . |
| 16 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 17 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 18 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 19 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 20 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 21 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |
| 22 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 23 | The murder had been ordered by Hendrique , for whom Kyle had been working during the last five years . |
| 24 | IN view of all the talk about a resumption of political talks , I 've been looking at the last word of the Ulster Unionists on the subject , delivered just before the plug was pulled last October . |
| 25 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 26 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 27 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 28 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 29 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |