Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 2 February 1799 Parson Woodforde , by then in Norfolk , wrote in his diary : ‘ Such severe weather has not been known for the last sixty years till the present ’ . |
| 2 | When Lewis moved his teaching from Oxford to Cambridge in 1954 , for the last nine years of his life , the drama of that confrontation was somewhat intensified , and it was not always noticed in the heat of debate how much they shared . |
| 3 | Obviously it affected me personally because my father 's condition was similar for the last fourteen years of his life . |
| 4 | Anne Lister was for the last fourteen years of her life the owner and occupant of Shibden Hall in Halifax . |
| 5 | Police are giving the Devon-born long-distance walker an escort for the last 170 miles to Tangier , which she hopes to reach by next Wednesday . |
| 6 | Observations for the last six days before maturity were dropped , as was the period around the October 1987 stock market crash . |
| 7 | He became leader of the Liverpool city council ; she was a member of the city council from 1930 to 1961 , for the last six years as an alderman . |
| 8 | She ran a business and worked in a health shop to work her way through four years of study at the Northern College of Homeopathy , Gateshead , and has practised for the last six months under supervision . |
| 9 | This is because of the eight-month lag in indexation , which means that the bond is not inflation-protected for the last six months of its life . |
| 10 | So scenario , clients been off sick for the last six months with a back problem . |
| 11 | And you have resided for the last six months at the and at er ? |
| 12 | And you have resided for the last six months at the Railway Hotel and at er ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Both players were brought in for the last six weeks of the season as McHale began to look ahead to next season when the Seasiders hope to mount a serious promotion push . |
| 15 | Max Henry , who 's kicked around NeXT Inc for the last four-and-a-half years in sales and software recruitment roles , mostly recently holding the post of VP and general manager , Asia Pacific , has jumped shipped to head up the American arm of windowing house JSB as president . |
| 16 | Sister was then transferred to Wythenshawe , and worked for the last 13 years on the chaplaincy team of Wythenshawe Hospital . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His health was excellent ; only for the last four years of his life did he suffer from intermittent fever . |
| 19 | For the last four years of his life he suffered periodic attacks of the same symptoms , which damaged his kidneys still further , and led to high blood pressure . |
| 20 | In 1343 Archbishop Zouche of York at first resisted the king 's nominee for the deanery of York because Cardinal Talleyrand had already been papally provided ; when the king 's judges found against him , Zouche acquiesced in the royal candidate , rejected the cardinal and endured papal excommunication for the last four years of his life . |
| 21 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 22 | Residential work declined for the third successive month , although it has to be said that the average monthly value since the start of the year is higher than for the last five months of 1992 . |
| 23 | His own firm had been picketed for the last five months in a dispute over the use of new technology . |
| 24 | Table 3 shows recall to be significantly greater for the last five words in the list when recall is immediate and thus supports the recency effect . |
| 25 | The newly appointed Governor of Hong Kong , Chris Patten , delivered his first policy statement on Oct. 7 at the opening of the 1992-93 session of the Legislative Council ( Legco ) , setting out the political agenda for the last five years of British rule in Hong Kong before its handover to China in 1997 . |
| 26 | The implication of any figure , indeed the County Council 's figure for the last five years of the structure plan , could be characterized as putting the brakes on so hard , that the passengers all fall off the train . |
| 27 | Faha Sanchita , defending , said that Uddin had 10 years of experience in the food business and had owned and run the Lalquila with his brother for the last five years without any hygiene problems . |
| 28 | As an example , if there is a gain on the sale of a property owned equally for fifteen years , occupied for the first ten years by both husband and wife and for the last five years by only the wife , there is complete exemption on the one-half share occupied by the wife throughout , and a chargeable gain to the extent of two-fifteenths of the gain on the other half ( the chargeable years being the five years after occupation had ceased less the 36 months ) . |
| 29 | John Mitchell was employed on the building of the Caledonian canal ; his diligence and skill were noticed by Thomas Telford [ q.v. ] and for the last eighteen years of his life he was principal inspector of the roads and bridges in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 30 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |