Example sentences of "[prep] the last [noun] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highlight of Sotheby 's 19th-century painting sale will undoubtedly be Millet 's ‘ Woman churning ’ , executed for the last Paris Salon in 1870 . |
| 2 | It is , however , necessary to hand over a receipt for the last rental instalment in respect of the assignment of leasehold property . |
| 3 | Whitehall was now described as the last Renaissance Court in Europe . |
| 4 | After the last Python show in 1974 Chapman pooped the party again . |
| 5 | A Soviet team acting under the terms of the INF treaty undertook a final inspection of the UK Royal Air Force base at Greenham Common in Berkshire on May 28 following the removal of the last cruise missiles in March [ see p. 38122 ] . |
| 6 | TP280 carries the livery of the last Spitfire operation in Malaya , black and yellow bands . |
| 7 | The need to relieve the Shacks from inshore patrol work , and to fill a gap left by the retirement of the last Lockheed Venturas in the early 1960s , saw the rebirth of 25 Squadron in 1968 at Ysterplaat — the first taste of sea air for the SAAF Dakotas . |
| 8 | Dismantling two of the last Conway engines in the return-to-products contract at Earby ( right ) . |
| 9 | The world knows about just one , when , with nerveless panache , he cut down Viv Richards in most merciless swagger to win England the quarter-final of the last World Cup in India — with the daring of , it looked at the time , a schoolboy 's lob . |
| 10 | The research aims to provide a comprehensive account of the last subsistence crisis in mainland Britain , by tracing its origins , the experience of the society during it and the long-term demographic , social and economic consequences for the highland area as a whole . |
| 11 | Jim was delighted with the last race night in November where they raised £1,000 . |
| 12 | Kingswood used to be in Gloucestershire before the last boundary changes in 1974 . |
| 13 | In 1924 , the United States upset the heavily-favoured French 17–3 in Paris in the last rugby match in the Olympics . |
| 14 | In the last year employment in Britain went down by 873,000 . |
| 15 | In the last BT sale in December 1991 only eight organisations volunteered to set up shops , which provided low-cost , no-frills share dealing . |
| 16 | AFTER finishing 12th in the last World Cup in Lahore coach Cees Koppelaar pledged to ‘ create a new Ireland . ’ |
| 17 | ( Since the last leadership contest in December 1989 the Conservatives had lost two by-elections : at Mid-Staffordshire in March 1990 to Labour and at Eastbourne in October to the Liberal Democrats — see pp. 37328-29 ; 37784 . ) |
| 18 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) won Lower Saxony from the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , which had held it since the mid-1970s ( in coalition with the Free Democrats since the last state election in 1986 — see pp. 34503-04 ) ; the SPD also retained its absolute majority in North Rhine-Westphalia ( with 11,000,000 voters Germany 's most populous state ) , where it had held control for 24 years . |
| 19 | And sports participation throughout Wales has fallen by more than 5pc since the last SCW survey in 1989-90 . |
| 20 | As answers to the last question jibber-jabbered in her head , Ashley straightened . |
| 21 | On the last working day in November , Stevenson 's ran out of money . |
| 22 | on the last lit window in the valley |
| 23 | At the last holiday resort in the world a small group of guests are cautiously testing the air . |