Example sentences of "[art] last few [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , proceed in the last few minutes to the last two of the seven stages — IL and E. |
| 2 | With the crews overlapping until the last few minutes of the 4¼-mile race , it had been a gruelling test for all . |
| 3 | In the last few minutes of the Committee stage we had an interesting debate when the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) defended what had happened . |
| 4 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 5 | The last few minutes of the play were , Shaffer told me ‘ simply an object lesson in comic timing . |
| 6 | I saw the last few minutes of the game when I got back from the pub last night and was amazed to hear some commentator say ‘ Manchester United have n't lost at home in the European Cup for 37 years ’ . |
| 7 | Aenarion walked the last few leagues over the haunted plains on foot . |
| 8 | Bernice shivered inside her coat as she ran the last few feet to the stones . |
| 9 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
| 10 | I first started to go when they were getting promotion to the second division the last few matches in the third division . |
| 11 | It seems that he believes in destiny , is loath to prevent fate from running its inevitable course , in the last few pages of the play . |
| 12 | By way of contrast , Limbo is an excellent , varied VS 4c , culminating in an exciting traverse to join the last few moves of the former route . |
| 13 | We 'll then drive the last few metres to the Colombi . |
| 14 | For travellers to the United States in the last few decades of the nineteenth century the immigrants to be seen at stations in the West , particularly in Omaha , were one of the most striking images of their visits . |
| 15 | A further aspect of the family , linking these ideas of privacy , home and self-expression , has received considerable attention in the last few decades with the growth of popular psychology manuals on how to enjoy or improve married sex and , more recently , encounter groups and sexual therapy . |
| 16 | It certainly begins to seem as though the materialist philosophy of the last few decades in the West was a myth just like any other , now that science is getting so weird , what with particles travelling back in time , and the fantastic strangeness of the new cosmology and chaos theory ( all those pretty Mandelbrot sets , and stuff about butterflies in China causing storms over the Atlantic ties in perfectly with the New Spirituality ) . |
| 17 | Everywhere one looked there were unaccustomed trophies on display and , when the visiting Ryder Cup team arrived at The Belfry in the last few moments of the decade , they were greeted by the sight of the Ryder , Curtis and Walker Cups , knowing that the last name on them was not that of the United States of America . |
| 18 | It took a very short time indeed , and with every step Jenna 's trembling lessened , although she refused to think about the last few moments in the barn with Alain . |
| 19 | From dealing in the last few chapters with the language of individuals , we now turn , in Chapter 6 , to a discussion of how language is used within Caribbean families in London . |
| 20 | Thomas Telford ran the last few yards to the pump site . |
| 21 | He rushed along London Street and Bridge Road so fast that he puffed and staggered the last few yards to the cottage where he lived with his parents and two younger brothers . |
| 22 | She ran along the side of the house , round the back of a stone-stilted granary and down behind the dovecot , and then darted across the last few yards to the wall . |
| 23 | Mounting steps was what Gus found most bewildering at this stage ; his feet made manful efforts , but tended to trail , and he was half-carried the last few yards to the door . |
| 24 | Practically sprinting the last few yards to the cottage , he pushed inside and dumped her belongings on the kitchen table before dashing out again and after the Land Rover as it groaned and grunted its way up the track to the colonel 's house , presumably driven by the garage mechanic . |
| 25 | Over the last few laps of the race , with all the cars on wet-weather tyres and racing in a steady drizzle , Bailey lost more ground to both the Mercedes . |
| 26 | A refinement of this is ‘ record revue ’ , which automatically replays the last few seconds of the previous shot as a check before returning the camcorder to record-mode . |
| 27 | This is a real time saver , because it automatically plays back the last few seconds of the previous shot as a check before returning you to record mode ready to take the next shot . |
| 28 | At the beginning of each new shot , the tape first back-tracks over the last few seconds of the previous recording , after which it reverses and returns back to the edit-point during which the camcorder 's electronics find and lock onto the previously recorded control-pulses . |
| 29 | The British commander , Brigadier Andrew Cumming , 45 , said : ‘ This is a great boost for morale as we enter the last few furlongs of the first Operation Grapple tour . ’ |
| 30 | There have been some significant developments in the last few years including the introduction of full-time DATEC courses , which are provided for South Wales by the West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education . |