Example sentences of "[prep] the last [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at your desk , the Companion fits seamlessly with your full-size PC for the last work in time-saving efficiency . |
| 2 | He won the US Championship for the last time in 1971 , and continued to play well into his seventies , finishing equal first at the Reykjavik open in 1984 . |
| 3 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 4 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 5 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 6 | London 's venerable red and cream double-deckers rumbled along the Thames embankment for the last time in 1952 . |
| 7 | Beckford was as impatient as Vathek to complete his building , but did not have a magical assistant ; the tower twice collapsed , for the last time in 1825 , and Beckford 's contractor confessed upon his death-bed that he had not provided it with foundations , although they had been specified and paid for . |
| 8 | The First Level Certificate in Commercial Studies will be offered for the last time in 1993 . |
| 9 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |
| 10 | To the purist it would seem regrettable to have included a modern 14-carat gold box by Cartier ( although decorated with a nineteenth-century mosaic ) as the last entry in this book . |
| 11 | George and Tony used to pay themselves £350 a week after setting up the firm at the height of the last recession in 1982 . |
| 12 | It shows how the present position compares with the depths of the last recession in 1982 when 23 per cent of such companies were at risk . |
| 13 | COACH Ian McGeechan , whose background includes eight Tests for the Lions between 1974 and 1977 plus being coach of the last Lions in 1989 , rates New Zealand ‘ the ultimate challenge ’ . |
| 14 | AT THIS stage of the last election in 1987 I was in the middle of writing a column when I had a call to say that the Sunday paper in which it was to appear had closed down . |
| 15 | One of the last photographs in this collection perhaps reveals more about Mann 's relationship with her photographic models than anything else . |
| 16 | Dehaene , 51 , came from the trade union wing of the Flemish Christian Socials ( CVP ) ; he had negotiated the formation of the last coalition in 1988 [ see pp. 36047-49 ] and was seen as an expert mediator . |
| 17 | This field either contains the PSN of the last entry in this bundle assigned on that basis ( restricting the range of the search ) or contains a negative value indicating that there are no more entries of the kind in this bundle . |
| 18 | Wall fabric always sounds like the last word in luxury but in fact need not cost much . |
| 19 | In elections in the south-eastern province of Styria ( Steiermark ) on Sept. 22 , the far-right opposition Freedom Party of Austria ( Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs — FPÖ — whose leader , Jörg Haider , had in June been compelled to step down as governor of Carinthia — see p. 38298 ) made significant gains , increasing its support by more than 10 per cent to 14.6 per cent , compared with the last elections in 1986 [ see p. 34695 ] . |
| 20 | But there was a net gain of some thirty seats to the Unionists in direct comparison with the last elections in 1910 , a strong position for a party that was already the largest in parliament . |
| 21 | I did have er upon my door from the last week in last term was a saying er , you know this one , I do n't know if you 've had this ? |
| 22 | That was true before the last referendum in 1979 . |
| 23 | At Tibnin , the ruins are the highest point in the last village in southern Lebanon still held by a Muslim militia . |
| 24 | In the last election in 1984 , it scored 24 wins out of 28 . |
| 25 | ‘ I was sixth out of 21 in the last championships in 1987 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | In a general election on May 6 in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC — recognised only by Turkey ) the ruling National Unity Party ( UBP or NUP ) won 55 per cent of the vote and 34 of the 50 seats in the Legislative Assembly ( as against 37 per cent of the vote and 24 seats in the last elections in 1985 — see pp. 34067-68 ) . |
| 29 | Likud had portrayed the elections as a test of political strength and was disappointed with the result although it improved slightly on its performance in the last elections in 1985 [ see p. 34008 ] . |
| 30 | And over in the last verse in that chapter it says , he who believes in the son , has eternal life but he who does not obey the son , shall not see life , but the wrath of God abides on him . |