Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a long time drinker of real ale , who has only joined CAMRA in the last year , I found this belly-aching very annoying . |
| 2 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 3 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 4 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 5 | Whatever else the planners may have done , they have disastrously lost sight of the last of these objectives . |
| 6 | ‘ We have already cut £6.5m in the last two years and lost 80 jobs last year , ’ said Coun Carr . |
| 7 | Mr Major said that not only had the Budget extended the export credit guarantee scheme but : ‘ Mr Lamont has also cut premiums over the last few months by as much as 27 per cent to help exporters . ’ |
| 8 | Developments have also taken place within the last few months , in introducing computerisation of sales order processing within the Export Department . |
| 9 | Author Aldon Ferguson has produced a well researched history of the last ‘ temporary ’ RAF station that was constructed during World War Two that is still in current use . |
| 10 | We have n't had overtime for the last couple of weeks . |
| 11 | The club have twice narrowly avoided relegation in the last three years , and survived last season only because of a bright start , but have yet to pick up a point in the present campaign after playing five league games . |
| 12 | For the 1960s had also seen the beginnings of the stylistic pluralism that has increasingly characterised music in the last quarter of the 20th century . |
| 13 | To put the point graphically , while Marx and his nineteenth-century comrades would have no great difficulty in recognizing the economic and the political spheres today , despite the major changes that have undoubtedly taken place in the last hundred years , in the cultural-ideological sphere the opportunities for hegemonic control on a global scale have changed out of all recognition . |