Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last fourteen years the trade union movement has shouldered the blame for the Labour Party 's dismal showing in the general elections . |
| 2 | For the last six months the momentum has grown we 've been lectured to by ex-leaders of the Party by ex-parliamentary stars by Give-us-a-Meal Roy by budding prima donnas by the wagon-load , telling us how we should be gagged ! |
| 3 | For the last six months the managers brought into the firm by Robert Maxwell have been trying to strike a deal to wrench it from the quagmire of his estate . |
| 4 | For the last four years the widow had been forbidden to leave her husband 's side , and her legs had so deteriorated that ( it being considered lèse-majesté ; to crawl ) she had herself carried about her diminutive space by her " slaves " , the " lesser widows " . |
| 5 | Investment has turned positive overall at the U K level and the regions which are leading investment expectations and this is people 's expectations about what they 're going to do in terms of investment in plant and machinery over the year ahead which I think is probably the meaningful one to focus on rather than buildings numbers erm the two regions which are leading that are the south west erm and that makes sense because the south west is , has the lowest number of firms who say that they 're working below capacity and also the West Midlands , for the last five surveys the West Midlands has either been the most optimistic |
| 6 | For the last 14 years the show has been put on at the Apollo Theatre , with adoring parents almost filling its eighteen hundred seats as those true troopers give their all for the gang show . |
| 7 | For the last hundred years the picturesque ruins of the Augustinian nunnery ( founded around 1200 ) have been cared for by the Iona Cathedrals Trust . |
| 8 | For the last two years the public have been asked to nominate winners for the Korn/Ferry prize but this year it will be decided by a judging panel alone . |
| 9 | He explained that for the last two years the unit has been funded with money from the Department of Education and Science channelled through Durham County Council . |
| 10 | However , I buy this product regularly and for the last three months the price displayed on the shelf has been £1 . |
| 11 | ‘ For the last three years the boy has been my ward . |
| 12 | For the last three years the number of fires recorded during the Amazon burning season , July to October , has fallen , partly because of government action and partly because the economic slump has affected cattle ranchers and farmers . |
| 13 | For the last few weeks the baby inside her had been making itself felt . |
| 14 | He was n't yet quite in the Michael jackson class , but for the last few months the little boy had been difficult in the extreme . |
| 15 | For the last few years the sum has been £1 0 . |
| 16 | For the last 40 years the firm 's been using the shaft to dump waste oil , solvents and even raw sewage from its toilets . |
| 17 | For the last ten years the singers have included choirs from Mapplewell Junior School , Staincross Ladies Choir and , retaining the connection with miners , the North Gawber Male Voice Choir . |
| 18 | For the last ten years the spending of the City Council has risen beyond belief . |
| 19 | For the last seventy-three years the Bishop of Durham was a scholar ; five bishops in succession ranging from one who was among the leading minds of Europe to one who was more a publicist than a scholar but who still had academic interests . |
| 20 | For the last several years the transformation has been led by one particular member of that leadership , who was designated the ‘ project manager ’ of the entire change effort . |
| 21 | The reason being that probably for the last 50 years the sewers have been provided free : they have outlived any associated loans and so no charge has been made to the revenue accounts . |
| 22 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 23 | Dawson 's first book , The Age of the Gods ( 1928 ) , subtitled A Study in the Origins of Culture in Prehistoric Europe and the Ancient East , began by noting that ‘ During the last thirty years the great development of archaeological and anthropological studies has prepared the way for a new conception of history . ’ |
| 24 | But neither the Ecclesiastical Courts nor the Common Law Courts are well adapted to settle the numerous conflicting rights of creditors , legatees , and next of kin ; trusts are often involved , and during the last two centuries the most effectual and usual method of asserting a claim to or against the estate of a deceased person is to get the estate administered in Chancery . |
| 25 | The effect here is that during the last five years the Conservatives have played no part in the management of this county whatsoever , and it has been left to the other two parties to come to an agreement . |
| 26 | During the last fifty years the church musician as a kind of freelance ‘ general practitioner ’ has been increasingly replaced by those who derive their livelihood more as school music teachers than from their appointment as parish organists . |
| 27 | It has been said that ‘ … during the last forty years the United Kingdom has moved away from the nationality citizenship model ’ . |
| 28 | In M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1956 ] 3 All ER 814 Denning LJ said : During the last 40 years the courts have shown a reluctance to enforce covenants of this sort . |
| 29 | During the last 30 years the rise of an international market for recordings and the renewed interest in earlier repertory have done much to enhance the English drive towards higher choral standards which began ( it might be claimed ) at King 's College , Cambridge , in the 1920's . |
| 30 | During the last few years the Printing Division has been able to offer photosetting via its P.E . |