Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our climate continues to be as mild as it has been for the last couple of winters we may yet challenge our French and German competitors ! ’ |
| 2 | The need for independence , linked with the need for love , are amongst the last treasures of old age , and should be treated with great delicacy . |
| 3 | I I simply do n't know but the paperwork I 've seen says that erm it is as likely in the next four or five years that major inward investors could be in the B one office type of employment as they happen to have been in the last couple of years in the manufacturing class . |
| 4 | Mary 's reign witnessed a spontaneous renewal of enthusiasm for the local celebrations banned under Edward , and Corpus Christi processions , Whitsun ales , May games , and the decking of churches once more became as common as they had been in the last years of Henry 's reign . |
| 5 | The twelve represent the twelve tribes of Israel , which are in the last days to be gathered in . |
| 6 | The Unionist fear is that we may be on the last verse of another . |
| 7 | In the schematic dating we apply to this period it seems to be around the last century of the second millennium that an upward turn becomes traceable , notably in pottery and specifically the pottery of Athens . |
| 8 | Two men could n't get any closer than those two have been over the last couple of years , could they ? ’ |
| 9 | If you are on the last field of an option and you press TAB , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 10 | Meeting are on the last Tuesday of the month at 8pm . |
| 11 | THE men at work on the vast steel chemical tanker standing alone among the deserted wharfs of the Clyde are among the last remnants of Scotland 's proud shipbuilding history . |
| 12 | Its construction , by 30,000 men over vast tracts of unexplored Canadian trains are among the last refuges from the characterless hell of modern travel . |
| 13 | Canadian trains are among the last refuges from the pre-packaged , plastic , characterless hell of modern travel . |
| 14 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 15 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 16 | They were joined by a party of Anzacs , who were on the last day of their leave before returning to the desert . |
| 17 | Two of the survivors assured me they were among the last girls to be admitted to the trade . |
| 18 | Of the hedgerow shrubs which still hold fruits , the hips of the various species of rose may well be the most obvious , often being among the last fruits to be eaten by hungry wintering thrushes . |
| 19 | The year 's biggest Americana sales were held at Christie 's and Sotheby 's during the last week of January , coinciding with the Winter Antiques show in New York . |
| 20 | One possible solution is for the last step in the procedure to be the subject of a strict time limit . |
| 21 | Right er number four er the National Entertainments Conference organized by the N U S. I have since secured some money from Executive Committee to send two representatives to this Committee , and it 's in the last week of the summer holidays . |
| 22 | It is from the last line of this work that the LNWR coined the name for their locomotive . |
| 23 | There are holes in your pullover , your Barbour is in the last stage of decrepitude and your trousers ca n't have been near a press in months . |
| 24 | There have also been some very encouraging noises from the Pipe stable , which has resulted in a major gamble from 14–1 to 4 's over the last couple of weeks . |
| 25 | Right , the first addition is on the last page under the erm the Royal Hall of Ministers and Elders to er remember their . |
| 26 | It was during the last years of the reign of Anne Boleyn 's daughter Elizabeth that the curative effects of lemon juice on scurvy victims was observed , although neither cause nor effect were understood . |
| 27 | The other girls followed suit , and the waitress , after a moment 's hesitation , wrung in turn the outstretched hands before hurrying off to attend to the needs of a customer who , to judge by his impatience , was in the last stages of starvation . |
| 28 | It was in the last year of the old century , 1899 , that Grahame began his love affair with Fowey and its river . |
| 29 | But Noble was in the last week of his life , and proved too ill to see his favourite pupil or to hear read the letter of sympathy and comfort which Edward had sent him . |
| 30 | This was in the last days of Mrs Thatcher 's leadership and my daughter had never known anything other than a female PM . |