Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] the last " in BNC.

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1 Ogden and Richards , in contrast , stress that words are used to ‘ point to ’ things , and that their meaning does in the last analysis depend on the things they are used to point to , their referents ; language may be different from reality , therefore , but it nonetheless reflects it .
2 Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers .
3 Its history begins in the last years of the ninth century .
4 His three customers on the plane were a woman who had changed her travel plans at the last minute and a married couple starting a world tour .
5 His confidence stems from the last two victories .
6 In particular , you will probably have good reason to complain if your employer departs at the last minute from an approach to the selection process that has previously been announced .
7 Figure 15–8 shows the marginal benefit MB that your neighbour gets from the last inch of tree size and the marginal cost MC to you of that last inch of tree size .
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