Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] in 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Julian Stevenson ( 21 ) and Errol Lutton ( 22 ) have experienced agonies and ecstasies in the last fortnight at club level . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But difficulties in the last sentence go deeper than this . |