Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tragedy occurred in the last Grand Prix race on the old circuit and was won by James Hunt in a McLaren . |
| 2 | There are beautiful marbles from Cyrene in Libya ; and the west has produced other things besides the architectural sculptures noticed in the last chapter . |
| 3 | He 's the second top player to go in the last few weeks . |
| 4 | The signs of crisis are already there with 10 goals conceded in the last five games . |
| 5 | Rangers paid a heavy price for a similar gaols leak in the last round and now only a win in Turkey can take United through . |
| 6 | We have made a survey of the overall mortgage costs in the last one , three and five years . |
| 7 | What they confirm is the complex notion of uneven development outlined in the last section , and how the changing geography of the UK since the mid-'60s has been part and parcel of its wider transformation . |
| 8 | Many of these people are moreover less concerned with the socioeconomic issues discussed in the last three chapters , but more with the changing environment of the countryside and the increasing pressures being placed upon it . |
| 9 | The Yugoslav won 7–5 , 6–3 , 6–1 as the 36-year-old Navratilova faded in the last two sets of the unique five-set final after a bright start . |
| 10 | Across the open space one could look down on the town , a busy , self-important place boosted in the last few years by highrise office blocks full of income-tax men and VAT clerks . |
| 11 | It is salutary to note that as we start the 25th Anniversary year of the University the mean residence time of the 23 staff members of the Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences , including the three staff appointed in the last decade , is now 18 years . |
| 12 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 13 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 14 | What progress has the human family made in the last two decades towards fulfilling the basic needs of its poorest members ? |
| 15 | Many books published in the last decade or so seem to underline the importance of ‘ anticipatory grieving ’ , with the result that relatives and friends can be forced into expressing emotion they may not yet be ready to express . |
| 16 | The alert stems from a check by Boeing of its quality control records and covers 18 planes completed in the last two months . |
| 17 | This is the same problem that many businesses faced in the last century when they had to produce balance sheets . |
| 18 | What ‘ shocks ’ has the international economy experienced in the last few years ? |
| 19 | There is a great temptation to overfeed in the last month to ensure calf growth and nutrition . |
| 20 | The second part of the theistic pattern sketched in the last chapter which we need to put under the microscope is that which described God both as personal and as impersonal . |
| 21 | The most egregious case occurs in the last entrée , in which |
| 22 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 23 | A WOMAN whose unborn child died in the last days of her pregnancy is seeking compensation from South Tees Health Authority . |
| 24 | This was a disconcerting contrast to the chambers of sickness all about , the bodies lying in white bleached wards with pieces of themselves cut away for ever , the hidden grey figures struggling in the last embrace of life . |
| 25 | Despite the brisk sales reported in the last few days before Christmas , December saw a small decline in retail trade compared with the previous year , according to the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , said on Tuesday that many retailers had reported a disappointing Christmas , although the results were an improvement on recent months and sales in January were expected to be up on a year ago . |
| 26 | As a starting point , the methods of tabular reformulation discussed in the last section may form part of an initial familiarization phase . |
| 27 | They overpowered the Italian pair to win in the last few strokes |
| 28 | As in the case of the physical events considered in the last chapter in connection with causation and other nomic connection , mental events strictly speaking are to be regarded as individual properties or sets of such properties . |
| 29 | Given the racial , regional and economic diversity surveyed in the last chapter , how can there be such a thing as ‘ European ’ assumptions ? |
| 30 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |