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 .
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