Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last [adj] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Total seizures of cocaine ( including crack ) for the last five years available ( together with comparable figures for heroin ) in kilograms are : |
| 2 | For the last 18 years this wonderful lady has done the housework , the washing and the gardening for the old people living in our village . |
| 3 | For the last 20 years architectural historians have criticised the attribution of " rationality " to the Modern Movement in the sense of economic and technological determinism . |
| 4 | For the last three days ten novice sailors have been out in the Western Approaches , sailing in winds of 40 knots or more through occasional sleet showers . |
| 5 | It 's an easy , efficient way to clear crop fields and for the last twenty years strict guide-lines were laid down to control it . |
| 6 | Council records show that during the last 18 months 32 companies and 12 sole traders stopped trading in the town ‘ for one reason or another . ’ |
| 7 | The proportion saying they decided ‘ during the last few days ’ is nearly one in seven of all who voted on Thursday , and double the 1987 figure : 198319871992 Decided a long time ago788173 Two or three weeks ago141213 During the last few days 8 714 |
| 8 | During the last 20 years major contributions have been made to liberal political philosophy . |
| 9 | Recently , a leading member of the West Midlands Area Young Conservatives has written in the national press : ‘ ln the course of the last twelve months 1 have travelled extensively throughout the area in question and , with the exception of extremely isolated individuals , have found no evidence of sympathy for the ‘ libertarian ’ position ’ ( The Observer , May 1985 ) . |
| 10 | Other similar businesses can often be valued at around two years ' purchase of the average of the last three years net profits without deduction for proprietor 's remuneration or interest on capital . |
| 11 | It turns out that any number divided by 98 000 will give a remainder with the last three digits unchanged , as 98000 itself is divisible by 1000 . |
| 12 | At follow up in 1989 group means derived from the last three readings available for all hypertensives had fallen to 148/88 mm Hg for men and 145/86 mm Hg for women ( all changes p<0.001 ) . |
| 13 | In 1736 the Conservator and Supervisor of the Forest of Dean had reported to the Treasury , ‘ Within the last thirty years those Elections [ of Forest officers ] had been neglected , the Courts discontinued , and offenders left unpunished . ’ |
| 14 | Within the last few years thousands of Goans have gone to work in the Gulf states . |
| 15 | In the last five years alone , for instance , it 's trebled . |
| 16 | It was what one did with wealth that counted , and in the last 10 years voluntary giving had doubled . |
| 17 | Langbaurgh Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Allen : ‘ In the last 45 years this country has suffered whichever government has been in power . |
| 18 | A college report on a short experiment in mechanics A thesis for a higher degree in anthropology The findings of a young worker during Voluntary Service Overseas , on the social conditions in an African village The conclusions and opinions reached by the holder of a travelling scholarship on the variations in educational opportunities in several countries Findings on the depopulation of the countryside of S.W. England in the last 100 years Financial recommendations on a proposed merger of two large companies Economic proposals on the purchase and distribution of sugar in the E.E.C . |
| 19 | In the last two months 20 buses have been damaged by missiles , drivers have been attacked and robbed . |
| 20 | And in the last two years many up-and-coming bands have played at Darlington wine bars Perry 's and Harvey 's . |
| 21 | Just look at the record in the last two years alone . |
| 22 | In the last thirty years archaeological investigation of deserted village sites has added substantially to our knowledge of peasant conditions , and will probably provide more information in future , particularly by enabling fuller comparisons to be made between different parts of the country . |
| 23 | In the last fifteen years successive laws have provided a continuing escalation in racism , irrespective of the government which brought them in . |
| 24 | In the last 18 months alone Megatech has shipped in excess of 4500 copies of TAS , and since the beginning of this year sales have been averaging 400 units a month . |
| 25 | The themes of quantitative methods , of chronology , of processes and of human activity as reviewed in the last four chapters all have amongst their adherents some who would claim that one of these four was the dominant paradigm for physical geographers . |
| 26 | In the last 80 years half of the world 's rainforests have been destroyed . |
| 27 | IN the last six months substantial changes have taken place within Stoddard 's manufacturing unit at Runcorn . |
| 28 | In the last 24 hours alone , Boeing airplanes landed about 20,000 times . |
| 29 | Mr Gilchrist , 52 , formerly joint managing director of Leyland Daf , told a news conference : ‘ In the last 24 hours alone more than 30 legal contracts have been finalised and signed . ’ |
| 30 | It 's a domestic policy , hands off right and this was one of the arguments one of those potent arguments that they 've used in the last forty years right but it 's incredibly naive because any domestic policy will have an international dimension I remember the about European Community right but it was n't for the operation of the common agricultural policy countries in the European Community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were ten years ago bec because er of protectionism we 've now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods what implications has th does that have for international trade ? |