Example sentences of "[art] last few [noun pl] [conj] the " in BNC.

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1 We 've just heard in the last few minutes that the application for that hotel to be listed has been turned down .
2 Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details .
3 Such has been the rate of change in the last few years that the 1981 Census has become woefully outdated .
4 Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas .
5 His job had turned into such a jest over the last few weeks that the thought of putting on his uniform , that humiliatingly naval-looking , obviously non-sea-going uniform , made him stiff with bashfulness .
6 She had lost weight in the last few weeks and the jeans were a little loose about her waist .
7 We have faced particularly traumatic times over the last few weeks as the economic situation has forced us to reduce our staff numbers in the UK .
8 It had become increasingly clear over the last few days that the anger of East Germans is focused on the Communist Party and that it can only be a question of time before the party has to relinquish its leading role and allow political competition .
9 ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating .
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