Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] last [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 've been thinking it 's needed some more in for the last few meals . |
| 6 | Only within the last few years have doctors begun to realize that this microbe can cause disease . |
| 7 | It may have even done so within the last few centuries , though no one can know for sure . |
| 8 | Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days . |
| 9 | When the engagements are abroad , I work feverishly in the last few days and nights to create a reasonably finished piece of work — just in case we crash . |
| 10 | Only in the last few pages is cosmology mentioned explicitly , although Hubble was deeply interested in it . |
| 11 | Only in the last few months of his pontificate , before his promotion to York , did Bothe recognize the duke 's local interests by appointing ducal servants to office within the bishopric , not only at Crayke ( which lay within the duke 's sphere of influence in the forest of Galtres ) , but within County Durham itself , where Gloucester 's retainer John Redmane was made bailiff of Bishop Auckland . |
| 12 | Only in the last few months of his pontificate , before his promotion to York , did Bothe recognize the duke 's local interests by appointing ducal servants to office within the bishopric , not only at Crayke ( which lay within the duke 's sphere of influence in the forest of Galtres ) , but within County Durham itself , where Gloucester 's retainer John Redmane was made bailiff of Bishop Auckland . |
| 13 | Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed . |
| 14 | But it is only in the last few weeks that news of Kevin 's death has reached American troops still in the Middle East . |
| 15 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 16 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 17 | Its origins are disguised by its huge cob , and only in the last few years has genetic analysis teased out the whole truth about its humble cereal ancestry . |
| 18 | And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better . |
| 19 | Only in the last few years have real efforts been made to equalize provision for different groups of the disabled and there is still a long way to go before we can claim to have adequate social security in this area . |
| 20 | It is only in the last few years , then , that new IT , mainly in the form of the microcomputer , has started to play a part in formal education . |
| 21 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 22 | But in Latin America , even the crudest indicators such as per capita GNP , or gross national product ( which takes no account of wealth distribution ) show that people 's incomes have actually gone down in the last few years and their health , education and nutrition have gone down with them . |
| 23 | Only over the last few months had she noticed the subtle swing of attention away from her towards medical students , or the younger female doctors . |
| 24 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 25 | This is our first effort at a full newsletter and we now really appreciate how much effort Lynn has put in over the last few years . |
| 26 | for most of it , but not during the last few days |
| 27 | Such a change would set the final seal on what is perhaps the most radical transformation Japan has gone through in the last few decades : the disappearance of the farming community as a fundamental axis of politics , the economy and society and the emergence of Japan as a fully-fledged urban , industrial society . |
| 28 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |
| 29 | What we 've been through in the last few years has brought us a lot closer , and that 's part of the reason I 'm getting out of the rat race of international cricket … certainly for a few years , anyway . |
| 30 | What was erm how , how badly was the south by affected by the Japanese , I mean what were the peasants likely to have gone through in the last few years ? |