Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm , what we have tried to do at , there are You 've probably seen or heard in the last five or six years , the influence of Japanese technology . |
2 | The vendor will be required to warrant that no industrial action has been taken or threatened in the last few years . |
3 | You can also use your Card to call up the balance , print-out or order a statement , or look at the last few transactions on your account at one or more of the new AutoBanking machines we are installing up and down the country to help you . |
4 | The cubs , all between three and seven weeks old , have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks . |
5 | A more intensively studied pathway is that leading from the cerci or paraprocts through the last abdominal ganglion up ascending giant axons in the ventral nerve cord . |
6 | For a start , the figures exclude transactions that occurred on the last two business days of the month — the very time when pressure on the pound was thought to be most intense . |
7 | Latterly flying as the flagship of Australian TV comedian Norman Gunston , the aircraft had been a familiar sight at Bankstown and , although grounded for the last ten years , had remained substantially complete . |
8 | The return of Tony Hanson to the team that lost in the last five seconds at Broxbourne could be the inspiration , but with Doncaster playing second placed Oldham and Plymouth at fourth placed Brixton , the two teams above them could well lose ground . |
9 | His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours . |
10 | Words that have in the last fifteen years or so , become synonymous with the name of Hood Yacht Systems . |
11 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
12 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
13 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
14 | The number of crimes which result in charges before a court has more than doubled in the last 10 years . |
15 | Cases of malignant melanoma have more than doubled in the last 10 years in countries with a fair-skinned population . |
16 | The number of Darlington firms going bust has more than doubled in the last two years . ’ |
17 | THE use of cheques and payment cards has more than doubled in the last 13 years . |
18 | Meanwhile , house prices and rents were reported to have more than doubled in the last 12 months . |
19 | O D A funding of British N G O activities has more than doubled in the last three years . |
20 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
21 | Discovered and excavated in the last sixty years , they have often been described . |
22 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
23 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
24 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
25 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
26 | IT is a great privilege and pleasure for me to honour my old friend and colleague John Gillam , with whom I have worked and argued over the last thirty years . |
27 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
28 | This part of the country is extraordinarily rich in small sects that grew up and flourished in the last two or three centuries . |
29 | The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision . |
30 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |