Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.

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1 , The NRA has announced a " disturbing " rise in prosecutions of companies and individuals for polluting water over the last two years .
2 Also included are props Dan Jackart and Paul Szabo , who showed well in France , along with flanker Al Charron , now fully recovered after breaking ribs in the last game against the All Blacks , and centre Tom Woods , like Cardinal a 1987 World Cup starter in New Zealand .
3 A fountain pen is a writing instrument , metonymically ‘ fountain ’ relative to its reservoir , non-dip implicitly in its connotation , constituting a magnetic focus of cascading libido to the last drop , paradigmatically self-dipping in a Reichian sense .
4 Despite the growing demographic and other pressures on the NHS , it has reduced the real costs of treating patients in the last ten years .
5 According to the 1987 Conservative Election Manifesto : ‘ Home-ownership has been the great success story of housing policy in the last eight years . ’
6 A Ridge had been recorded in a list of nailers in the village back in Queen Anne 's reign and the family 's connection with metal hand crafts was not broken until 1970 when John Henry Ridge retired ( at the age of ninety-one ) from his part-time occupation of making gimlets in the last of Ecclesfield 's little smithies .
7 Lagan Valley finished last and , despite beating RUC in the last meeting , could not avoid the drop to division two .
8 Mr , er a moment ago congratulated the County Council in fact on the success of the strategy in reducing migration over the last ten years or so .
9 Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright .
10 Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright .
11 The remaining web of streets was due for redevelopment — the standard solution to housing decay in the last couple of decades .
12 As prone as most journalists to leaving matters to the last minute , Tchaikovsky ‘ regarded this work as very light , insignificant , and so as not to overlook the deadline for each piece , he got his servant [ Alyosha ] to remind him each month of the date of delivery ’ .
13 The participants had decided to walk 20km on each of the first two days and finish by walking 10km on the last day .
14 Alcatel hijacked the contract by undercutting Westinghouse at the last minute .
15 The York Waits , a six-strong group of entertainers , is to receive a coveted international honour for their contribution to keeping old traditions alive by reconstructing music from the last five centuries .
16 Then if we evaluate unc as a chain , beginning by premultiplying A by the last of the three matrices in ( 4 ) , and if also we take unc then A is first replaced by a matrix in which the leading element of the infradiagonal vanishes .
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