Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 2 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 3 | Notice how the sunset and the greeting are welded together in the last stanzas and are transformed into the endless journey and ‘ human sweetness ’ of the last three lines . |
| 4 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 5 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 6 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 7 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 8 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 9 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 10 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 11 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 12 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 13 | A spokesman for the Northern Constabulary at Inverness denied the accusations of harassment but confirmed that the site had been visited twice in the last few days and that several people had been charged . |
| 14 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 15 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 16 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 17 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 18 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 19 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 21 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 22 | It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures . |
| 23 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 24 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 25 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |
| 26 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 27 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 28 | Most of these options have been closed out in the last two decades . |
| 29 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 30 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |