Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
| 2 | Even ratting contests and prize-fights seemed to lose their appeal in the last quarter of the century . |
| 3 | They have suffered a few setbacks since clinching their place in the last four , including a midweek League Cup semi-final knockout by Coleraine . |
| 4 | I would have preferred to see its replacement with a fixed housing allowance of limited term , and possibly on a more generous scale , for first time buyers only and those who have bought their houses in the last few years ; that should be coupled with the extension of housing benefit , which is limited to the rented sector , to low income home owners who have difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments . |
| 5 | I would have preferred to see its replacement with a fixed housing allowance of limited term , and possibly on a more generous scale , for first time buyers only and those who have bought their houses in the last few years ; that should be coupled with the extension of housing benefit , which is limited to the rented sector , to low-income home owners who have difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments . |
| 6 | When the directors of the London and North Western Railway organised their company in the last century they decided to build an engineering works , for locomotives and rolling stock , near the centre of their network , and this point was in the countryside at Crewe . |
| 7 | But if Labour 's leaders misplayed their hand in the last week , Paddy Ashdown 's behaviour was more damaging by far . |
| 8 | Johnson ( 1988 ) observes that this decrease is not a new phenomenon but is a continuation of trends which have their origin in the last century . |
| 9 | In London the Women 's Film and TV Network , Converse Pictures , Women in Sync and Aphra Workshops have all lost their funding and closed their doors in the last few years . |
| 10 | All cities have changed their appearance in the last decade . |
| 11 | Even the most solid-looking dinosaurs may have changed their habits in the last few years ! |