Example sentences of "the last two " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usual for a class to consist of between 12 and 16 students divided approximately equally between male and female , and this size of class is likely to be maintained throughout the training course until the finals period in the last two terms . |
| 2 | Many of these have adopted as a major part of their strategy over the last two years campaigns to attract bidders for Channel 5 franchises to locate in their cities . |
| 3 | Writing about the last two jobs felt strange , largely because of the muddled emotions they still arouse . |
| 4 | The last two competitors may be called upon to save the day , so always ensure that you keep at least one good finisher in hand . |
| 5 | Never be tempted to forfeit the last two bouts of a male team match , or the last bout of a female team match if you have already seen your team take the deciding first three/two victories . |
| 6 | Leonard was full-blooded , physically and temperamentally , and these teenage years saw him active in a wide range of sporting interests : cycling ( one of his favourite pastimes then ) , skiing , swimming , canoeing , sailing and ice-hockey ( in which he made the school team ) , boxing and wrestling , though he was very little involved in the last two . |
| 7 | Within the last two decades , a new approach to this subject has assumed great influence . |
| 8 | The last two digits of a maker 's reference number describe the shape of the shank and the cross section , the width is always given separately . |
| 9 | The last two were the social railway , requiring continuing support in grant-aid for the provision of socially essential services in the capital , in the great conurbations , and in rural areas . |
| 10 | Whether the last two antics are viable depends entirely on the context . |
| 11 | An English style of demi-caractëre dance is not always very obvious except in the hornpipe and in Ashton 's Harvest , Maypole and Morris Stick Dance in La Fille Mal Gardée , where the last two vary very little from the traditional versions . |
| 12 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
| 13 | Australian Mutual Provident has been building up its stake in Pearl for the last two years . |
| 14 | For a start , the figures exclude transactions that occurred on the last two business days of the month — the very time when pressure on the pound was thought to be most intense . |
| 15 | The team have also been called for 11 holding penalties in the last two games . |
| 16 | Bull , who has scored four goals in the last two games , did not train yesterday after picking up the injury during Saturday 's 5-0 win over Portsmouth . |
| 17 | Mr Prescott , who was given a rousing reception after his election to Labour 's national executive earlier this week , condemned Paul Channon , the former Secretary of State for Transport , for refusing to accept that government policies had played a part in the series of transport disasters that had occured over the last two years . |
| 18 | Yesterday , he produced his second extraordinary escape act in succession by coming from behind to win 10-15 , 9-15 , 15-13 , 15-12 , 15-10 , against an opponent who has been in both of the last two world title-winning teams . |
| 19 | Again the try came from a concerted attack involving forwards and backs , Guscott and Brendan Mullin barely managing to squeeze the last two passes away . |
| 20 | On financial grounds alone the event was a resounding success , and after two thrilling encounters in the last two years the public appetite here is established beyond doubt . |
| 21 | Instead , she has spent the last two years working on a book chronicling Basque life through its kitchens and markets . |
| 22 | The last two games show that Yusupov still has to overcome his fear of Karpov . |
| 23 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 24 | The proliferation of one-day cricket — there were 227 limited-over internationals played between the last two World Cups — is a reflection of modern-day audience demand , and , overseas anyway , is what brings in the cash . |
| 25 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 26 | The cause for GM 's concern is plain when one realises that its West European operations have emerged as the biggest profit earners in the entire group , accounting for some 37.3 per cent of net income in the last two years but for only 14.6 per cent of group turnover . |
| 27 | Derrick Cooper went past a Nick Faldo who found his new swing was not as successful over the last two rounds . |
| 28 | Mr Newton made no mention of the future of child benefit , which the Government has frozen for each of the last two years years at £7.25 a week . |
| 29 | The last two days ' scenes of disarray , including some fisticuffs , caused by the exclusion of far-right MEPs from the leadership of two delegations to foreign parliaments , are demeaning to the European Parliament , and bode ill . |
| 30 | In the last two months , however , jewellery shops have been taken by storm . |