Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 2 | It only improved in the last years of the nineteenth century with the company 's realization of a profitable traffic in middle-class commuters living at the seaside while working in Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 3 | She also cared in the last years of her career . |
| 4 | Clive and Rose Greenacre , also described in the last chapter , continued to live out their shared problem of fearing abandonment . |
| 5 | The debate started from agreement about the outcome to be explained — the kinds of data given in the previous section — and about the broad changes , also described in the last section , which had been involved . |
| 6 | Indeed , as we also saw in the last chapter , one recent writer ( Jenkins , 1984 ) portrays Beccaria 's postponement of the positivist revolution as being anti-radical and supportive of existing authoritarian rulers . |
| 7 | Penguins at Birdland are used to being the centre of attraction , some even starred in the last Batman movie . |
| 8 | THE SO-CALLED disease-of-the-month club is currently mustering legislative support for an objective that it almost reached in the last session of congress : creation of a separate headquarters for arthritis research at the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) . |
| 9 | The impressive energy with which France has been building and renovating museums as well as adding to their collections since 1981 — the year François Mitterrand became President and Jack Lang his Minister of Culture — actually began in the last years of the previous Centre Right administration . |
| 10 | She half smiled in the last threads of gold that smouldered in the sky . |