Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] for the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 2 | AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement . |
| 3 | AFTER more than 31 years working for , electrical engineer has packed away his drawing board for the last time and started his retirement . |
| 4 | As prepared to leave the Basingstoke premises for the last time , she said : ‘ While it is difficult to take in the reality of the situation after all this time , we are delighted that the initials continue to have prominence under a new and synergetic banner . ’ |
| 5 | By the sa at the same time , I obtained the lab analyses for the last year . |
| 6 | ‘ Graham took second place at Watkins Glen before we went to South Africa for the last race . |
| 7 | Heathcliff visits Catherine for the last time |
| 8 | Now , as the son came to see the marble bust for the last time , court photographers crowded around to capture the poignancy of the son saying goodbye , presumably with a sense of terrible failure , to the father for whom he had never been good enough . |
| 9 | From a technical point of view this is mainly nip and tuck stuff , but Microsoft is betting that the innovative use of existing technology will be a winner and is finally cashing in on all the application programming interfaces , dynamic data exchange , object linking and embedding facilities that it has been burying in its applications and operating systems for the last couple of years . |
| 10 | London 's venerable red and cream double-deckers rumbled along the Thames embankment for the last time in 1952 . |
| 11 | On 14 December 1989 , she visited the Casa Republicii for the last time and expressed alarm on seeing that one of the decorative features of the stairways leading to the southern entrance of the palace had the image of a cross when seen from high above . |
| 12 | Dr Mark Almond , lecturer in Modern History at Oriel College , Oxford , makes the point that the centre party , though only supported by 11 per cent of the vote , has controlled the foreign and economics ministries for the last generation . |
| 13 | A part of one of Scotland 's most historic regiments this afternoon marched off the parade ground for the last time . |
| 14 | Part of one of Scotland 's most historic regiments has marched off the parade ground for the last time . |
| 15 | In practice , student occupancy for the last week of the Christmas and Easter terms averages 50 per cent , while that for the last two weeks of the summer term is 33 per cent . |
| 16 | As n overflow records will require ( n — 1 ) full revolutions , to which the seek and processing times for the last record have to be added , this estimate will get more accurate the more records there are in the overflow chain . |
| 17 | Holyoak believes that the council has been bamboozled into adopting LET's monolithic scheme which has had outline planning permission for the last year . |
| 18 | Claire Clairmont saw Lord Byron for the last time in November 1821 , when her carriage was edged off the road outside Empoli by his magnificent coach and four with its wagon train and travelling menagerie . |
| 19 | He won the US Championship for the last time in 1971 , and continued to play well into his seventies , finishing equal first at the Reykjavik open in 1984 . |
| 20 | On Feb 28 , 1990 , the SPC approved a draft law for the last year of the five-year plan , and agreed new terms under which property might be more freely hired and transferred . |
| 21 | His team just escaped relegation from Division One but after a disastrous run at the start of the following season , he left Maine Road for the last time . |
| 22 | He had been feeling sick ever since they left the main junction and climbed into the joggling , jolting line train for the last lap of their journey , but the sudden whistle had finished him . |
| 23 | We do n't really know a lot about how much sediment load they 've been carrying because we have been measuring the amount of material being carried by Sussex rivers for the last decade to two decades , so our level of information is very , very low . |
| 24 | ‘ I was paid £3 10s a week , and worked on Saturday mornings , ’ he said as he bowed out of Linlithgow Branch for the last time . |
| 25 | Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season . |
| 26 | At eleven forty-five , Laura Maingay switched off her cassette dictaphone for the last time and ran it back to the beginning . |
| 27 | Brenda continues in Creole until just before " but to dance " , then switches back to London English for the last part of her turn , where she continues with her narration of actual events : " and then and then we star%ed to talk and all the rest of it and tha% " s it " — but switches to Creole for her final " punchline " : " full stop . |
| 28 | On 16 January the Shah and the Empress , Farah Dida left the Niavaran Palace for the last time . |
| 29 | As you pass round the plant stem for the last time , turn the cord through between stem and stake and wrap the turns , pulling the cord tight to form a firm collar as shown in Figure 5 . |
| 30 | The VAT returns for the last quarter are due in , and that big ( very profitable ) convention which took over the hotel for three weeks last year is imminent but you ca n't get at your data . |