Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of courses presently available , both advanced and non-advanced , has grown in piecemeal fashion , largely in response to the technological revolution which British agriculture has achieved over the last 30 years . |
| 2 | People know there is no tourism policy , and the number of personnel has doubled over the last years , but are we getting better services ? |
| 3 | In some areas the precise details of the ban coverage has changed over the last few years and climber are requested to check that they re aware of these updates . |
| 4 | The consultations that the Board has conducted over the last year have indicated that both SSAP 15 and SSAP 24 are high on the list of standards that should be subject to a comprehensive review in the medium term and at that time the inconsistencies in the approaches adopted , as noted above , can be considered more fully . |
| 5 | Metcalfe and Richards point out that the strategic management literature has wrestled for the last 20 years with the problems of managing for results in unstable conditions , yet the lessons which emerge are just starting to be taken on board in the public sector . |
| 6 | The fresh , country look has evolved over the last few years as people have begun to paint wooden units and replace solid doors with glazed doors to create a lighter atmosphere . |
| 7 | ‘ This connection is particularly important at the current time when we know the numbers of women on low income has doubled in the last decade . ’ |
| 8 | Richard Brucciani , chairman of the CBI Smaller Firms Council , said : ‘ This survey shows that smaller firms ’ optimism has weakened over the last four months . |
| 9 | Certainly , there is evidence that the number of women convicted of assaults , woundings and violent crime has risen over the last two decades . |
| 10 | Simon Griffiths , a hospital spokesman , said last night : ‘ Mrs Barnett 's general condition has improved over the last few hours and her liver is functioning well . ’ |
| 11 | The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators says that demand for good qualified chartered secretaries has rocketed over the last three to four years . |
| 12 | This positive momentum has accelerated over the last two or three years , though the Campaign is the first to recognise that it is only a modest part of a much larger movement . |
| 13 | The position of the team test driver , which McNish has occupied for the last two years with Marlboro McLaren , can lead to a permanent seat in the team — as happened to Damon Hill , who has replaced Nigel Mansell alongside Alain Prost with Williams-Renault . |
| 14 | Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme . |
| 15 | What was worse , wearing it had obliged him to fasten the top button of his shirt , an exercise which had drawn his attention to an extra half inch of fat his neck had gained since the last such occasion . |
| 16 | Mr Dick Davison , of the Independent Schools Information Service , said a dozen private schools had closed in the last year . |
| 17 | He worries at the extent to which known Felix pictures have disappeared in the last 30 years , and can detail those that have gone missing from Brighton , The Oval and a Piccadilly pub . |
| 18 | However , a glance at a catalogue issued in the 1920s illustrates how little the designs have changed over the last seventy years . |
| 19 | How much money has been spent and how many animals have suffered during the last eight years ? |
| 20 | And yet the proportion of women going out to work has doubled over the last thirty-five years ( from 30% to 60% between 1951 and 1987 ) , and almost all this increase is in part-time work . |
| 21 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 22 | " The level of abstraction and consumption has increased over the last century by hundreds of times , and perhaps in some cases by thousands . |
| 23 | In nineteen ninety three , four we made a seventy one thousand reduction in economic development , and this year we 're proposing to make a fifty thousand , there 're actually cuts I think , that any committee of any council has made for the last three years . |
| 24 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |
| 25 | The optimistic reading is that we have been successful , in that the number of men convicted of rape has increased over the last decade by 39 per cent in the case of rape , 2 per cent in the case of sexual assault , and 55 per cent in the case of incest . |
| 26 | Blackburn managed to equalise in the last five minutes and won it 3–4 in extra time . |
| 27 | Matt wanted to know how her parents had fared over the last few years , and as we were about to leave the table he asked her to stay and tell him about them . |
| 28 | SCOTLAND — SCOTLAND have qualified for the last five World Cup finals , but with only one point from two games they already face an uphill struggle to qualify for a sixth time . |
| 29 | Although Denmark and the UK won temporary exemption from lifting internal border controls , Spain refused to sign at the last minute on the grounds that the agreement might prejudice its claims to sovereignty over Gibraltar . ] |
| 30 | The assisted area map will change not because the Government will change but because circumstances have changed since the last review . |