Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] last [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is only one type of personal family document which survives right through the last three centuries in really significant numbers . |
| 2 | ‘ Pat Nevin , our other scorer , has not been able to train properly for the last five weeks because of an ankle problem . ’ |
| 3 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 4 | Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years . |
| 5 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 6 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 7 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
| 8 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 9 | The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well . |
| 10 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |
| 11 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 12 | His health was excellent ; only for the last four years of his life did he suffer from intermittent fever . |
| 13 | It was captain Richards who put the brakes on with some neat off-spin , only for the last ten overs to realize another 83 . |
| 14 | It was only for the last three years of his life , from 1630 to 1633 , that he served as a country parson , as Vicar of Bemerton in Wiltshire and Canon of Salisbury . |
| 15 | The ribs should be barbecued well away from direct heat for a good two hours — begin basting with sauce only during the last 15–20 minutes of cooking , otherwise the sauce will taste bitter . |
| 16 | Only during the last 100 years has the active cultivation of aquatic plants for decoration been practised , and then widely only during the last 25 years . |
| 17 | Only during the last 100 years has the active cultivation of aquatic plants for decoration been practised , and then widely only during the last 25 years . |
| 18 | For many years the only Medau teacher in those parts , she has been particularly concerned , especially during the last few years , with classes for the elderly and handicapped , and has been a pioneer in getting Medau accepted as a suitable retraining system for stroke victims . |
| 19 | Previously a very short-legged blocky type , it is growing longer , leaner and taller , especially during the last 10–20 years in America , Australia and New Zealand , by careful and selective breeding . |
| 20 | Observers agreed that Nonconformist buildings improved with the century , especially during the last twenty-five years . |
| 21 | He used to be the crier , but had recently taken over from Fred Harrison who had proclaimed the fair annually for the last thirty years . |
| 22 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 23 | Yet the Crown derived little profit from the herds of deer which still remained in some forests : the Forest of Dean , for example , had in 1788 ‘ supplied only Four Bucks and Four Does Annually for the last Seven Years ’ . |
| 24 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 25 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 26 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 27 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 28 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 29 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 30 | So for the last three years she 's lived alone , existing on income support and other allowances totalling about £80 a week . |