Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The continued decline of international prices for the LDCs ' main export products during the last decade ; the danger of a fall in official development assistance and the consequences of the Gulf crisis , were listed as the main factors affecting growth in LDCs . |
| 2 | There is hope for Hector 's , but it has certainly been saved from fishing nets at the last hour , and will need all the protection and help it can get if it is to survive through the next century . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with Overseas Development Ministers of OECD countries on aid matters over the last month . |
| 4 | His style of narration changes in the last chapter , as his narration of Ralph changes from Ralph 's point of view near the beginning , back to Golding 's extensive view of the whole island . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | A distinct shift took place from the staple export industries of the last century to a range of industries more closely linked to domestic markets and reliant on new technologies ( Cronin , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | By the sa at the same time , I obtained the lab analyses for the last year . |
| 8 | For further information about commercial art galleries in Cologne see both the Around the Galleries section of this paper ( p.21 ) and the profiles of eight leading gallery owners in the last issue of the paper ( No. 18 , May 1992 , p.20 ) . |
| 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 | He served in the Queen 's Own Cameron Highlanders during the last war and has since held many executive positions which have brought prosperity and jobs to Scotland . |
| 11 | Following her airlift to the United States with 40 other coup survivors and relatives , Edela de Giroldi said her husband was betrayed by fellow officers who deserted the coup plotters at the last minute . |
| 12 | Delivery takes place two business days after the last trading day , the standard settlement period in the foreign exchange market . |
| 13 | Like the canal owners of the last century and the publishers of the present one , booksellers also need to ask themselves what business they are in . |
| 14 | Thames Water was allowed ‘ illegal ’ pesticide levels until the last day of 2000 , while in Environment Minister Chris Patten 's own constituency Wessex Water had the same plan . |
| 15 | The quotation marks in the last sentence are there to make a point . |
| 16 | A survey by Living Magazine ( 14.8.89 ) which questioned 1,000 women , found that one-third had received obscene phone calls in the last year , 20 per cent of this group more than once , yet only 26 per cent had told the police , 13 per cent had been interfered with and 87 per cent of these kept silent ; 9 per cent had suffered indecent exposure and 92 per cent failed to report this . |
| 17 | And in the ridgeway hedges on the last lap before home , the wild damsons are perfectly ripe and beginning to drop from the trees . |
| 18 | It may also be necessary to begin keyboard skills in the last year of primary school and to continue this as required at the secondary level . |
| 19 | GRIST also seems to have worsened what has been an increasing difficulty in arts professional development programmes during the last decade . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Unlike the clipper ships of the last century , our prahu had no guard-rails on the deck , and no rigging harnesses or proper ratlines , yet our crew scaled the masts barefoot to cling to the spars with their legs alone , like lemurs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Government 's health record provoked one of the largest backbench rebellions during the last session of Parliament , with the Government 's majority cut to eight over eye charges . |
| 24 | Operational information has undergone several media revolutions in the last century . |
| 25 | It is always prepared to lend to the discount houses in the last resort in order to ensure adequate liquidity in the economy . |
| 26 | This too was the rate at which the Bank of England would lend to the discount houses in the last resort . |
| 27 | As he said , inward investment is one of the great success stories of the last decade . |
| 28 | But Parry says : ’ These NFL games have been one of the great success stories of the last decade . |
| 29 | It really is one of Ethiopia 's few success stories over the last decade . |
| 30 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — though Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |