Example sentences of "during the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 2 | During the last few years there has been an increase in swinging and ground looping accidents and these must be analysed to see if there are new lessons to be learned . |
| 3 | Cutting down on your drinking , even during the last few months of your pregnancy , will help your baby to be healthy at birth . |
| 4 | During the last session the final entry to the forthcoming tournament is chosen . |
| 5 | The ultimate achievement , notwithstanding the numerous new stations opened in the area during the last five years , was the reopening to passenger traffic of the Cynon Valley line to Aberdare ( closed in March 1964 ) with no less than eight new stations . |
| 6 | These pavements , the bare bones of the Dales , stripped of soil during the last Ice Age , seemed to stretch for miles , their surface fretted by grikes and clints and scoured and bleached by rain and winds that sweep these fells . |
| 7 | It was kept alive during the last century by a series of exotic injections . |
| 8 | After almost two hours at the wheel yesterday , Senna limped away from his car , the only obvious sign that he had suffered from brake trouble during the last quarter of the 73-lap race . |
| 9 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 10 | Because Britain has been covered , during the last few weeks , with record levels of toxic and other dangerous substances . |
| 11 | And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations . |
| 12 | During the last 23 years I have looked at thousands of so-called accidents in many countries . |
| 13 | Benat Arroyabe , a young chef from San Sebastian , proved a notable exception during the last year by producing food of great elegance and flavour ( witness capiscums filled with fresh cod and parsley sauce ) in the Basque-oriented Guernica restaurant at 21a Foley Street , London W1 ( 01-580 0623 ) . |
| 14 | The officers are also anxious to hear from people who noticed any suspicious strangers seeking rented accommodation in the Deal area during the last 18 months . |
| 15 | A spate of airline buyouts , which has touched every major US carrier during the last six months , has come in for growing criticism because of the heavy debt it loads on the companies . |
| 16 | If your employee is sick during the last eight weeks before leaving and you have paid SSP for more than three days you have to fill in a Leaver 's statement SSP(L) . |
| 17 | Work to modernise and improve Ilam Hall took place during the last two winters . |
| 18 | At York he was able to write a weighty book , From Gore to Temple , which traced changes in Christian thought in England during the last eighty years . |
| 19 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 20 | We are accordingly reaping , and have been reaping , the effects of monetisation of debt during the last twelve months on that sort of scale . |
| 21 | Dawson 's first book , The Age of the Gods ( 1928 ) , subtitled A Study in the Origins of Culture in Prehistoric Europe and the Ancient East , began by noting that ‘ During the last thirty years the great development of archaeological and anthropological studies has prepared the way for a new conception of history . ’ |
| 22 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 23 | In fact one of the striking characteristics of the history of Africa 's informals during the last three decades is how few of them have managed to launch genuine large-scale businesses , capable of competing with the foreign-owned or -managed enterprises which are still so critical in many countries . |
| 24 | The riverside warehouses of the London docklands have become favourite subjects for this treatment during the last decade and an outstanding conversion of one such building — Thames Tunnel Mills — is described in this chapter , while the final chapter of the book contains an analysis of a similar building that has been converted to house a range of new uses , including sixty apartments . |
| 25 | The Romans probably introduced the geared watermill and are first recorded in England during the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 26 | Later they were supplied by specialist brickmakers whose numbers increased greatly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 28 | During the last four decades , the natural habitats of Britain 's wildlife have been ravaged by modern farming methods , urban sprawl and pollution . |
| 29 | The Government 's health record provoked one of the largest backbench rebellions during the last session of Parliament , with the Government 's majority cut to eight over eye charges . |
| 30 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |