Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the last [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was confusing her poor machine with half a row of the new pattern , when it still had some of the last row in its little cogs . |
| 2 | It is clear from the last sentence in the quotation that Mrs Whitehouse does not view her position in the way some of her critics have done in the past , as reactionary or illiberal . |
| 3 | There are now 25,000 swans on waterways compared with 19,000 in the last count in 1983 , according to the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust . |
| 4 | Triangulation is a chain of supplies of goods among three or more parties where the goods are delivered from the first party direct to the last party in the chain . |
| 5 | On the main island of Curaçao which was allocated 14 seats , Liberia Peters 's centre-right National People 's Party ( Nationale Volkspartij — NVP — also known as the Partido Nashonal di Pueblo ) won seven seats ( compared with six in the last elections in November 1985 — see pp. 34291-92 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I was sixth out of 21 in the last championships in 1987 . |
| 7 | Fish stocks have continued to decrease despite expenditure of over $1 billion during the last decade in building fish ladders , screens over turbine intakes and hatcheries . |
| 8 | Following the May elections the distribution of seats was SPD 71 ( 66 in the last elections in 1986 — see pp. 34503-04 ) ; CDU 67 ( 69 ) ; FDP 9 ( 9 ) ; Greens 8 ( 11 ) . |
| 9 | We 're the last , one of the last ones in our road ! |
| 10 | In Thwaite Lane , at Hunslet , is the Thwaite Putty Mill , one of the last places in England to keep waterwheels in regular use . |
| 11 | One of the last photographs in this collection perhaps reveals more about Mann 's relationship with her photographic models than anything else . |
| 12 | The E I P today is probably one of the last pieces in the jigsaw . |
| 13 | Barbie 's eyes are probably two of the last pits in Britain . |
| 14 | THE population of England and Wales has increased by nearly 1.4 million since the last count in 1981 . |
| 15 | I have spent most of the last year in what was once Yugoslavia , much of it in the beautiful and doomed Republic of Bosnia Hercegovina and it has left me scarcely able to think , far less write about anything else . |
| 16 | That was true before the last referendum in 1979 . |