Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a fantastic feeling to be out on that field for the last 10 or 15 minutes , ’ he recalled . |
| 2 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 3 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 4 | The image of the disastrous goalkeeper has haunted Scottish football for the last 30 years . |
| 5 | WASHINGTON , D.C. After the most highly publicised recruitment process in the history of American museums , the National Gallery of Art 's Board of Trustees announced on 28 April that Earl A. Powell III will take over from departing director J. Carter Brown , who has led the fifty-one year old institution for the last twenty-three years . |
| 6 | Students in possession of any Morrissey records are charged a higher rate of interest on their college loans • A hitman is hired to hit the Hit Man and Her as well as all the bloody dancers ( especially that git who 's been wearing the same crappy wig for the last five mindbendingly-dull years ) . |
| 7 | That argument has been very forceful in some countries for the last three or four decades at least . |
| 8 | He 's been active with me in this issue for the last few years , ’ the MP announced . |
| 9 | I can remember I 've been on this Gipsy Working Party since you lost control of this Council for the last five years and you 've fought tooth and nail all the way down the line to resist every gipsy site that came in you 've used every manoeuvre that you could possibly do to resist it . |
| 10 | I think I 'm probably drawing too many parallels between the serious situation and the pop situation , but certainly no doubt that English pop for the last twenty years has been pre-eminent in Europe , and still is . |
| 11 | Mrs Owain Williams , who has been Chairman of this ball for the last three years , looked very pretty in black velvet . |
| 12 | And I 'll get my accountant to chase your vendor 's elusive accountant and get some figures for the last few months . |
| 13 | It is important to notice that in terms of ideas , the major influences on the British economy for the last hundred years have all been thoroughly secular — Matthew Arnold 's Hellenism , the Webbs ' egalitarianism and Keynes 's immoralism . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Britain has been steering in the direction of low-tax economy for the last ten years . |
| 15 | Regrettably this manuscript has been lost within the British Library for the last twenty years , and studies of it at present have to be based on photographic records . |
| 16 | The victory maintained the monopoly of British and Irish-trained horses , who have now exported this prize for the last 11 years . |
| 17 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 18 | The relationship between society and the state has been a central concern of western political and social thought for the last four hundred years , one crucially bound up with attempts to understand and evaluate the character of new social , political , economic and intellectual forms associated with the development of a capitalist world economy . |
| 19 | I 've erm , returned to work contracting and in fact , at Commercial Union for the last three years . |
| 20 | GEC Ferranti and the managing director of its Scottish operation for the last five years , Ron Dunn , are to part company , writes Marcello Mega . |
| 21 | Yes colleagues , what I will do is this , erm no one will be in this Congress for the last three days without knowing the strong feelings on the Timex issue . |
| 22 | On the British Army 's most wanted list for the last five years and you still have the nerve to sit here in the middle of Belfast . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Tapie is the driving force at Marseille , who have dominated the French league for the last three years . |
| 24 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 25 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 26 | trade unionism has been failing in this country for the last fourteen years . |
| 27 | ‘ They 're currently assisting with an inquiry that 's been giving the police quite a few headaches for the last few months . ’ |
| 28 | For example , Hans Dietrich Genscher has been Foreign Minister for the last 18 years . |
| 29 | The entrance to the harbour was by a clear channel for the last two hundred yards or so , unmarked but familiar to the fisherfolk , the rest a widespread menace . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I 've been considering how best to answer that question for the last twenty minutes . |