Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last [adj] [noun pl] that " in BNC.

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1 Zvi could n't remember how long it was since he had last found it necessary to advertise , but with Wine telling the Cork Examiner 's readers for the last three weeks that ‘ owing to the great increase of my practice ’ he was moving to larger premises Zvi felt he had no alternative .
2 In a letter to Mr Major last night , Mr Smith accused the Prime Minister of giving no good reason why the legal opinion on the Maastricht legislation should not be published or why it overturned the view from the Foreign Office during the last 10 months that a vote in favour of the social chapter would wreck the treaty .
3 There can be no art movement of the last 200 years that he has failed to sanction .
4 They are now indulging in distortion and scaremongering , but they are unable to hide the record of the last 13 years that has caused so much misery to so many people .
5 At the same time not only was there another G number but it was the same make of car as the last five G numbers had been and it was the same colour as three out of the last ten cars that had passed the other way .
6 Really the only reason I could think of when it 's you know it is important to put things on paper are really like the last three bits that we talked the last three things we talked about which detailed information would need to be there so people can read it when you know it 's got to get to a lot people not all in the same place at the same time or when it 's you need a copy .
7 However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled .
8 What 've you been doing in the last five months that 's put on the weight ?
9 Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " .
10 UI reportedly told staff laid off in the last two weeks that it was short of funds , attributing the situation to an accounting error .
11 We have not made any far-reaching contingency plans for after 1997 ; indeed so much has happened in China in the last two years that has shifted the mood from gloom to optimism ; today Hong Kong is a booming economic zone and is regarded as the mediator between the Western and Chinese economies ’ .
12 It is only in the last hundred years that the West has taken a serious interest in exactly where the different Anatolian rugs were made .
13 Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said .
14 ‘ Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said .
15 We 've just heard in the last few minutes that the application for that hotel to be listed has been turned down .
16 At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed .
17 It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre .
18 Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details .
19 And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better .
20 Such has been the rate of change in the last few years that the 1981 Census has become woefully outdated .
21 He had heard ( and drunk ) so much in the last few days that his mind was a haze of impressions and conjectures which refused to sort themselves out or lead in any one direction .
22 Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed .
23 The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier .
24 Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous .
25 And the thing about it is such as erm well not only Tanys Dell that biggest part of school is here the population has decreased so much in the last ten years that we having now to close schools
26 It was perhaps only in the last ten years that Broadstairs had fully come to realise what treasure trove lay buried in its midst , and plaques began enthusiastically to sprout everywhere .
27 This is the second time in the last 2 weeks that Julian Cleave has surveyed the aftermath of an arson attack .
28 Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out .
29 But it is only in the last 30 years that Australia has secured the knowledge , technique and the desire to produce the sort of subtle , light wines which we enjoy — and at which Australia excels .
30 *It is only in the last 15 years that the accumulated evidence has been strong enough to conclude that the regular consumption of up to four standard drinks a day may reduce the risk of coronary disease by as much as 50 per cent . ’
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