Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun] in the last " in BNC.

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1 As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ .
2 Liverpool , Merseyside computer games company Psygnosis Ltd , which has quadrupled its exports in the last three years — and has taken Japan by storm , was another winner as was Ipswich , Suffolk-based BT & D Technologies Ltd , the joint optoelectronic manufacturing venture between British Telecommunications Plc , E I du Pont de Nemours & Co Inc of Wilmington , Delaware .
3 Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire-based Uniplex developer Redwood International Ltd , which reckons to have trebled its exports in the last three years to become the leading Unix-based office automation system supplier , won due recognition .
4 Though the single-break flat-lidded coffin had made its entrance in the last quarter of the sixteenth century — the lead shell of Lady Elizabeth Howard ( d.1591 ) with appliqué lettering at Withyham , Sussex , is of this type , as is the pictorial representation of Sir Henry Unton 's 1596 coffin in the Unton portrait at the National Portrait Gallery , as well as a small sculptural representation of a coffin on the 1615 mural monument to Susan Kinges at Morston , Norfolk — the single-break gable-lidded shell seems to have been more popular .
5 Social work has begun to evaluate its effectiveness in the last fifty years , and Sheldon ( 1986 ) has described two separate waves of reviews and researches .
6 Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years .
7 The definitive chassis , designed by Englishman Tony Southgate , is expected to make its debut in the last two WSC races this year .
8 As the war in Europe neared its end in the last week of April and the first week of May 1945 , Allied armies were closing in on Austria from west , east and south .
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