Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway the workload gradually increased until I found I could n't continue any longer and have been off work for the last six months . |
| 2 | But the terms of funding for the last two years of the programme remain uncertain . |
| 3 | Oral history can be a means of helping pupils to build up a meaningful framework of chronology for the last 80 years . |
| 4 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 5 | It was a place of work , after all , thought Peter Nicholson , and it had been his place of work for the last sixteen years . |
| 6 | Data used will be in the form of statistics for the last five or ten years , the examination of which should assist bankers assessing country risk . |
| 7 | The relationship between syntactic and semantic processing has been a central concern of psycholinguistics for the last two decades . |
| 8 | We say goodbye in this issue to Kevin Chevis who has beavered away in Key Publishing 's Photo Department and whose work has graced the pages of FlyPast for the last three years . |
| 9 | ‘ Sir David has been attempting to tell his son the facts of life for the last five years . |
| 10 | BRISTOL CITY announced a loss of £742,000 for the last financial year at their annual general meeting at Ashton Gate last night . |
| 11 | In addition to her work with the Zimbabwe Foundation for Education with Production , Sr McLaughlin was a doctoral student at the University of Zimbabwe for the last three years , completing a thesis on ‘ The Catholic Church and the Zimbabwe War of Liberation ’ . |
| 12 | Indonesia : Ruslan Widjayasatra , has been under sentence of death for the last 17 years . |
| 13 | She has been a friend of WACC for the last 20 years . |
| 14 | Chief Superintendent John Goodenough has been Commander of B Division covering all of Oxfordshire for the last six years ; it 's been suggested his move signals the start of a major reorganization within the force , aimed at streamlining managerial duties . |
| 15 | But Professor Cizek of Vienna has been putting these ideas into practice for the last thirty years , with the results you may see exhibited . |
| 16 | Waverley 's opening statement came from vice-chair Michele Munro , who said the trust board felt it was time to offer the benefits former Scottish Homes tenants in the Borders had enjoyed with Waverley for the last four years to Tweeddale tenants . |
| 17 | Jose-Maria Olazabal finished on a better note with a 70 and was five under par for the last three rounds , which partially made up for his first round of 76 . |
| 18 | It 's now thought a hundred and eighty people were detained by the Iraqis as they made their way to the pick up point for the last British convoy from Kuwait . |
| 19 | All the drawings were published in a magisterial catalogue by Peter Fuhring in 1987 and have been with Hazlitt for the last eighteen months . |
| 20 | In Northamptonshire new book money has failed to keep up with inflation for the last three years … and charges have had to go up . |
| 21 | UK Defence Research Agency 's Ten15 Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology will also be incorporated : UI says it has been working closely with DRA for the last six months on proposals . |
| 22 | But if that is the case , they ask , why has n't Ruth Hilali been touch with colleagues for the last four months . |
| 23 | And the language and idiom of the broadcasts has dated : ‘ There has been a great deal of soft soap talked about God for the last hundred years . |
| 24 | The acknowledged leader in modern first editions , which have been greatly in vogue for the last two years . |
| 25 | The current account had been in deficit for the last 17 years and by late 1990 constituted around 7 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) . |
| 26 | Mr Young , 77 , who directed the James Bond movies Dr No and From Russia With Love , has lived in Cannes for the last 20 years . |
| 27 | But Bob Bagnell , who has imported charcoal from Indonesia for the last four years , says his source is not endangering the environment . |
| 28 | It seems to differ little if at all from the standard idea of the mainstream in force for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 29 | Vocational training for the actor as we know it has only existed in England for the last eighty years . |
| 30 | A Bolivian , born in Paris into the Ortiz-Patino family who made their fortune in tin mining in South America after World War I , Ortiz has been resident in Geneva for the last twenty-five years . |