Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eight hours after the last injection they found 17.0 ml emptying , which was not significantly different from postprandial gall bladder contraction without treatment . |
| 2 | There is a solution to conflicting views about the Last Supper . |
| 3 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 4 | For a long moment they stared at each other and it was as if the body language they had shared in the pool had ceased to be a game and the strained politeness of the last week had never been . |
| 5 | Dan Pohl , Larry Mize and even Ben Crenshaw all made hopeless hashes of the last hole , Eamonn Darcy holed the putt of his life , Ballesteros was obsessively snuffing out Strange and shortly after that something nice took place in the woodshed . |
| 6 | At one stage , there was a 30 second gap between the leaders and the pack and as much as 12 minutes to the last man , a Czech rider who was suffering in the heat . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |
| 8 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 9 | Following disturbances in October 1989 , major stock markets around the world remained strong at the end of the year , with some reaching historical peaks in the last week of 1989 and the first week of 1990 . |
| 10 | It is possible that a ‘ fire storm ’ condition developed in the town , similar to that which occurred in several German cities during the last war , when saturation bombing raids started so many fires that the city became effectively one big fire , sucking into itself hurricane force winds to bring fresh oxygen to the heart of the inferno . |
| 11 | DEC UK 's workstation product manager , Tom Yeates , says sales of VAXstations running VMS exceeded targets by two and a half times over the last quarter , something it attributes to increased confidence in VMS due to the launch of the Alpha chip . |
| 12 | The gasometer was rebuilt after being badly damaged by German bombs during the last war . |
| 13 | That was where I got all the old aerosols for the last War , not to mention several important parts of the Wasp Factory , including the Face itself . |
| 14 | If this party is represented in parliament by a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party , the procedure set out in section ( 3 ) of this clause ( for the selection of a prospective parliamentary candidate ) shall be set in motion not later than thirty-six months after the last time the said Member of Parliament was elected . |
| 15 | ‘ Comrade Rakowski ( the party leader ) set the precedent for this by allowing some foreign journalists into the last meeting of the Central Committee , ’ he explained nervously . |
| 16 | These coffins , England 's response in lead to the Egyptian mummy case , became fashionable in the fifteenth century and were still to be seen in some areas in the last decade of the seventeenth century , though they were beginning to decline in popularity during the 1660s and 1670s . |
| 17 | There were over forty applicants for the last post … ' ’ ' |
| 18 | The World Council Churches on this occasion reviewed the work accomplished during the seven and a half years since the last assembly in Vancouver in Canada . |
| 19 | The Tory-held seats at the last election which Labour would expect to win in the North-East are Darlington , Tynemouth , and Langbaurgh . |
| 20 | Mercury poisoning was confirmed by a urinary mercury concentration of 105 µg/l ( normal <10 µg/l , toxic concentration >100 µg/l ) 12 weeks after the last exposure to the ethnic remedies . |
| 21 | It was 27 days since Rashid had left his office at Iraqi Airlines for the last time . |
| 22 | ‘ I doubt whether I could have indicated it more clearly than by the importance I placed on foreign affairs in the last year . |
| 23 | Experts were virtually unanimous that ancient woodland " a remnant of the forests that covered the British Isles after the last ice age and undisturbed for 8,000 years " could not be recreated , he said . |
| 24 | Too many of them had clear memories of the last war to relish another . |
| 25 | Today treat yourself to your favourite menus of the last week — any breakfast , lunch or dinner — or try my special menu designed to mark your achievement so far . |
| 26 | On the western side , below the caves of Médous — discovered only in 1948 and spared , therefore , from the loss of their ‘ crystalline beauties ’ to the English vandals of the last century — there is a lovely quiet road along the valley of the Lesponne , an ideally leafy cul-de-sac , leading to the hamlet of Chiroulet close under the northern face of the Pic du Midi ; from there you can walk up to another of the more visited Pyrenean lakes , the Lac Bleu ( though this is a longish , moderately gruelling climb , involving an ascent of nearly 3,000 feet ) . |
| 27 | Children so unused to hugs before , clung onto their English friends until the last minute . |
| 28 | Children so unused to hugs before , clung onto their English friends until the last minute . |
| 29 | Women as authors are n't unveiled any longer ; this has been one of the marked developments of the last decade . |
| 30 | Michael Russell , the party 's vice-convener for publicity , accused Labour of selling out on all the promises it made to Scottish voters at the last election . |