Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] last [num] " in BNC.
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1 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
2 | I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do . |
3 | I think companies well in fact B and Q erm recently announced that er not recently I mean in the last eighteen months they 've started to have their er stores erm |
4 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
5 | Well I thought well I 'll , just think about what I want with the last five pounds . |
6 | When I came to the last two years of school , I wanted to specialize in mathematics and physics . |
7 | And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked . |
8 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
9 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
10 | I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme . |
11 | I have for the last ten years been writing software using Clipper database and would like to improve the front end on some of the software . |
12 | But I want you to understand that , in making up my mind , I did not forget the country or the Commonwealth which , as Prince of Wales , I have for the last 23 years tried to serve . |
13 | But I have over the last six months had occasion to discuss this very matter with a number of very highly placed Americans , and it seems to me that thinking in that country is much more far-sighted than that represented by their countryman here . |
14 | Can I ask over the last six seven years what local companies have funded the playhouse and to what level ? and how many of actually withdrawn and the reasons why they actually withdrawn ? |
15 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
16 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
17 | In our next example , which consists of the last two bars of the Prelude in B ♭ minor from Book I of the ‘ 48 ’ a different layout will be seen . |
18 | From the studios and shows I visited I spoke to women artists , all of whom graduated in the last 10 years about their work , their experiences with galleries , residencies , organising shows and lecturing , in an attempt to assess current directions in women 's work and gauge their position within the art world . |
19 | You know you had to put how many operations have you had in the last ten years and have are you er receiving any treatment and all that bloody blah blah blah . |
20 | If you remember at the last two sessions we 've talked about signs and symbols . |
21 | Mr Smith 's warning coincided with a call by Ken Livingstone , the Labour MP for Brent East , who said on London Weekend Television 's The Walden Interview : ‘ You can be miles ahead in the polls , but when you get to the last three weeks , people think , ‘ Can I afford a Labour government ? ’ |
22 | ‘ That is when you will discover if all those decisions you took during the last three years were the right ones . |
23 | WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE LAST SEVEN DAYS |
24 | It is instructive to note that relative newcomers to the dinosaur scene , the mosasaurs ( the violent giant aquatic lizards referred to in Chapter 3 , who appeared in the last 25 million years of the Cretaceous ) , showed evidence of mammalian-like illnesses . |
25 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
26 | It was an act of needlessly gratuitous violence and one which ensured for good and all , that Meryl Streep would be declining to take the female lead in the film version of this one , just like she had with the last two . |
27 | Consider , for example , the question ‘ Which textbooks have you read in the last six months ? ’ . |
28 | As we skimmed along the last hundred metres , I said to the lieutenant , ‘ Tuan , have you something the boy can put over his shirt ? |
29 | If anybody wants to comment on it , or any I think perhaps just confirm the calculation about being roughly one a day , that erm if you take the number of decisions that we made in the last twelve months , twenty one point eight percent of which were , erm , decisions to be put out by twenty six five , if we divide that by four , divide it by fifty two , and divide it by five you end up with point eight six per day , er |
30 | The closer we allow ourselves to get to another , the more we are affected and influences both consciously and unconsciously through the projective system or defence we described in the last two chapters . |