Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 2 | Perhaps the majority of the " workhouses " still so called in the last third of the eighteenth century were in no real sense distinguishable from " poorhouses " , that is from places where the impotent poor , through age or infirmity , could be lodged either until death or more temporarily . |
| 3 | And er , as you 'll see , probably next week 's , I 'm not going to get to this now , er , next week , or possible the week after , even , depending on how long it takes me to get there , I will suggest to you that the revolution now taking place in behavioural science , does suggest wh what they are , and that there are in fact some deeply countering intuitive insights , erm , into this whole issue , which have only emerged in the last few years . |
| 4 | According to Prof Friel , who left home in 1968 to work in England , self-confidence among Derry people has only emerged in the last few years . |
| 5 | The use of oils in the kitchen has greatly increased in the last few decades , influenced by foreign travel and the subsequent awareness of international cuisine . |
| 6 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 7 | But it 's only happened in the last five years . |
| 8 | England triumphed 4–1 and Jack was only beaten in the last 90 seconds when the game was well won . |
| 9 | The road into Ribeira Brava has been much improved in the last few years . |
| 10 | Our marketing agency , Faulds , were asked to take three very powerful messages from our existing messages from our existing product range and develop advertising that was easy to understand and humorous — an approach which building societies have successfully adopted in the last few years . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ We have had one man killed and six badly injured in the last few days . |
| 12 | There is a summary , your proof , your appendices , there 's a letter dated the fourth of February from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust , there is a special statement , and last , and only just received in the last few minutes , there is a supplementary note by Doctor on the Greater Crested Newt and its importance in relation to Skelton Pond . |
| 13 | We 've just heard in the last few minutes that the application for that hotel to be listed has been turned down . |
| 14 | The party has scarcely advanced in the last 20 years , and its brave new policy of ‘ independence in Europe ’ has proved a fine slogan , but not a convincing one . |
| 15 | Our largest vole , the water vole , is very active at the moment as its breeding season will have just started in the last few weeks . |
| 16 | Merson has not started in the last six games and his dramatic goal will not change Graham 's thinking overnight . |
| 17 | And we 've already discovered in the last six months by discreet calls because of something we 've seen a bit funny in er er in er references that have come back or people have been down right honest and said , Sorry er this guy was last time I spoke with him . |
| 18 | Students may take either a full MA(Honours) degree in Sanskrit , in which case a subsidiary related language such as Prakrit is normally studied in the last two years of the course , or a joint MA(Honours) degree in Sanskrit and Greek , Latin or Linguistics , where both subjects are studied for all four years of the curriculum . |
| 19 | Anatoly Guljaev , managing director of Novosibirsk-based Utilex CT , says the economic vitality of the Novosibirsk region has noticeably declined in the last three years . |
| 20 | In Cheshire , according to figures obtained by Public Eye , adult cautions have nearly trebled in the last four years . |
| 21 | Basically you will listen for maybe seven minutes then you switch off for two minutes then you switch on again and then you try and think well what was I listening to seven minu well you know , three minutes ago what was probably said in the last two minutes . |
| 22 | Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary . |
| 23 | Although intonation has been extensively studied in the last few decades , detailed descriptions of all but a handful of well-known languages are few , and the wide variety of theoretical assumptions which underlie them makes comparison difficult . |
| 24 | So many people are having very hard things demanded of them , and our prisons have been vastly reformed in the last 30 years or so . |
| 25 | The GOVERNOR manufacturers have always moved with us , and , for example , the cost of providing a supply from a Transmission main has been substantially reduced in the last few years , by use of skid mounted governor units using small diameter connections from the pipeline . |
| 26 | The rain has really struck in the last six weeks . |
| 27 | Well we have n't grown in the last three years as a service |
| 28 | The Hampshire batsman said : ‘ The fact is I have n't figured in the last two England sides , and I have still got things to prove . |
| 29 | According to this neo-populist view , which was outlined before the revolution and developed in the 1920s but has been vigorously reasserted in the last two decades , the spread of the market was not having the expected impact on peasant society . |
| 30 | THE number of under-25s who have taken drugs in Britain has almost doubled in the last three years . |