Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was widespread interest in the possibility that weapons in the last group might be used to attack Iranian population or economic centres . |
| 2 | Assisted by a recent Supreme Court ruling that members of the last parliament were not immune from prosecution for corruption even if they had been re-elected , Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Sir Julius Chan had launched a full investigation in late July into the financial dealings of the previous government . |
| 3 | It is unhistorical to assume that children in the last century responded to death in the same way as children today ; children 's attitudes are largely conditioned by those of adults , and in our day the usual adult attitude is to evade the subject of death , to treat it as ‘ morbid ’ and , so far as possible , to exclude it from the home . |
| 4 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 5 | The forum will draw on experience of people who have worked within the industry as commissioning editors , producers and directors over the last decade . |
| 6 | Julian Stevenson ( 21 ) and Errol Lutton ( 22 ) have experienced agonies and ecstasies in the last fortnight at club level . |
| 7 | It is strange stuff , fugues and suites of the last age , crabbed and knotted sometimes and not at all in the modern taste , but I do assure you , Stephen , there is meat in it . ’ |
| 8 | providing a pathway through the new thinking on cultural representation and gender developed by feminist artists , critics and writers over the last decade , the book is wideranging ; a useful introduction to what might be defined as the field of feminist cultural studies . |
| 9 | All industrial countries have experienced such a transition from high to low birth- and death-rates in the last century , usually ( except in France ) with an intervening period of moderate population growth when the death-rate falls before the birth-rate . |
| 10 | Sir : The letter from the vice-chancellor of Essex University ( 10 October ) reflects the appalling compliance with government views which has been the policy of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals over the last decade . |
| 11 | But difficulties in the last sentence go deeper than this . |