Example sentences of "[prep] the last [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actium , and Octavian 's victory in Egypt the following year , provided the occasion for the last great triumph in the Republican style . |
| 2 | The CDA 's share of the vote , at 32.7 per cent , although marginally up on its result for the last municipal elections in 1986 [ see p. 34309 ] , compared aversely with 35.3 per cent in the September 1989 general election [ see p. 36900 ] . |
| 3 | For the last seasonal design in this series of ‘ Countryside Celebration ’ , I have returned to the woodlands . |
| 4 | He had played a conciliatory role in ending the players ' strike during the last labour-contract negotiations in 1990 and some owners felt they could not fully trust him to be their man this time round . |
| 5 | These included a multiparty system , the resignation of the provincial LC leadership , equal rights for Kosovar Albanians , the release of political prisoners and an end to political trials , and the lifting of the state of emergency in the province ( imposed during the last serious disturbances in Kosovo in February-March 1989 — see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ) . |
| 6 | Many hundreds of casts of these human fossils have since been made , and from them we can learn a good deal about the last appalling hours in the life of Pompeii . |
| 7 | Sow the seeds in a propagator at 64°F ( 19°C ) in Feb/March , and set out young plants in the garden in late May , or after the last likely frosts in your area . |
| 8 | He cited the experience of the last Labour government in being forced to deal with the International Monetary Fund as further proof of the need to stick to fundamental socialism . |
| 9 | A weakness of the last comprehensive review in Better management , better health was that it did not make explicit the value of development activities . |
| 10 | The Wood family lived here for three hundred years until the death of the last male heir in 1743 . |
| 11 | Some lay Nonjurors returned to communion with the Church of England after the death of James II , feeling that now they were relieved from the oaths , as did some of their clerical counterparts after the demise of the last Nonjuring bishop in 1710 . |
| 12 | One impending move is the closure of the last remaining ward in Worksop 's old Victoria Hospital . |
| 13 | He added that the committee was concerned about the lack of car parking spaces on the proposed site and the loss of what was one of the last open spaces in Mynydd Isa if a new church were allowed there . |
| 14 | The result nevertheless represented an improvement on Les verts ' share of 0.35 per cent of the vote in the first round of the last legislative elections in 1988 . |
| 15 | Sadly this was one of the last public appearances in London of Sir William Heseltine , before he returns to his native Australia this autumn . |
| 16 | He is anxious not purely for Delphi , set in one of the last unspoilt valleys in Ireland , but for the whole wild sweep of west Mayo beyond it , up to the bustling tourist town of Westport . |
| 17 | The island of Porto Santo has one of the last unspoilt beaches in Europe where , for eight kilometres , you can walk along a white sandy beach washed by the Atlantic Ocean and bordered by sand dunes . |
| 18 | The tribe is one of the last hunter-gatherer cultures in North America |
| 19 | WWF has a strong connection with the last remaining rainforest in Nigeria , Oban . |
| 20 | That will bring it to 42 per cent. , which is way below the peak in previous cycles and way below the proportion of public expenditure to GDP under the last Labour Government in similar conditions . |
| 21 | He started his political career at the time when the Cenomarv of Brixia answered the call to rebellion from the last Punic commander in Italy , Hamilcar . |
| 22 | If there is a tail of two or more syllables , the normal pitch movement is for the pitch to fall on the tonic syllable and to remain low until the last stressed syllable in the tail . |
| 23 | In the last general census in 1971 , one-third of 14-year-old girls had already experienced at least one pregnancy . |
| 24 | In the last great outbreak in 1911 , 32,000 infants died of diarrhoea and the infant mortality rate climbed to 130 . |
| 25 | The PSOE received 38.4 per cent of the vote , compared with 36 per cent in the last local elections in 1987 [ see pp. 35525-26 ] . |
| 26 | Both the two largest parties suffered losses ; Fianna Fáil , the major party in the ruling coalition , won 358 seats ( 437 in the last local elections in 1985 ) and lost control of the city and county councils in Dublin . |
| 27 | Of the other parties , the Independent Smallholders ' Party ( which had won 57 per cent of the vote in the last free election in 1945 — see p. 7600 ) , led by Istvan Prepeliczay , advocated the return of collectivized land to its owners as listed in the 1947 land register ; the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was established in October 1989 [ see p. 36960-61 ] as the reformed successor to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) and currently claimed 50,000-60,000 members , the first candidate on its national list being Imre Poszgay , who had acted as a catalyst for many of the reforms but who came third in the constituency where he was also standing ; and the League of Young Democrats ( FIDESZ ) , led by Viktor Orban and claiming 5,000 members , was closely allied to the SzDSz . |
| 28 | In the last free elections in what is now East Germany , in 1946 , the SED , after its forced alliance with the SPD , won on average 45 per cent of the vote . |
| 29 | The score then goes on to the last musical number in Act 3 , ‘ A thousand thousand ways ’ , which is a song repeated by the chorus . |
| 30 | During assembly , components are first " hooked " to the last known element in the train and then rotated . |