Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the last [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers . |
| 2 | Pete Youngman from Pest Control Chester has during the last three years generated over £100,000 worth of business purely through submitting D5 leads . |
| 3 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
| 4 | If the debtor has within the last five years been bankrupt , made a composition with his creditors , been subject to a county court administration order or entered into a voluntary arrangement , particulars must be given including the name and address of the supervisor ( r6.39(2) ) . |
| 5 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 6 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 7 | It consists of a fortuitous , almost accidental , alliance between a particular fraction of development capital and New Right political reformers , not always particularly clearly articulated , which has in the last few years managed to don the cloak of inner city concern . |
| 8 | Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maiolica has in the last few years returned to popularity ( the recent exhibition of the maiolica collections of the Metropolitan Museum was regularly crowded , to the amazement of Met officials ) , though most of its present day collectors are Italian . |
| 9 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 10 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
| 11 | There follows deep , sluggish water , a very serpentine course between high banks , a 2.5 mile slog to Balnaan Bridge where the flow quickens for the last 100 yds to the modern , single , wet arch . |
| 12 | Johnston , saddling his 48th winner of the year , should now go on to achieve his maiden half century , and does not mind whether it happens in the last four days of turf racing or on the all-weather . |
| 13 | So what happens in the last three years ? |
| 14 | FT-SE 100 futures have a maximum life of nine months , and most of the volume occurs in the last four months of the contract 's life . |
| 15 | The most popular period for BES investment occurs in the last three months of the tax year as investors begin to think about reducing tax liabilities ; the early autumn sees a second surge as investors can claim up to half the tax relief for the previous year on investments made before 6 October ( subject to a maximum of £5,000 ) . |
| 16 | He says over the last five years it 's got far more popular … it 's a sport which is developing … it 's just opening up as a competitve sport … |
| 17 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 18 | He added that no household-name company had escaped making job cuts over the last two years . |
| 19 | The inaugural exhibition concentrates on the last six years of the artist 's life . |
| 20 | His confidence stems from the last two victories . |
| 21 | ‘ Boom Boom ’ , the LP , differs from the last two parts of the John Lee comeback ( ‘ The Healer ’ and ‘ Mr Lucky ’ ) in that there is n't such a staggering amount of extras and celebrities blamming away in the background . |
| 22 | The win , only Eastbourne 's third in the past decade , was achieved against a team whose five finals include two cup wins in the last 12 years . |
| 23 | Summaries of the kitchen accounts for the last ten years , for instance . ’ |
| 24 | A more intensively studied pathway is that leading from the cerci or paraprocts through the last abdominal ganglion up ascending giant axons in the ventral nerve cord . |
| 25 | In our next example , which consists of the last two bars of the Prelude in B ♭ minor from Book I of the ‘ 48 ’ a different layout will be seen . |
| 26 | In fact , none of the popular British names in the frequency lists in the last 75 years has had an unstressed initial syllable . |
| 27 | Early work focused on single cell correlates of sensory stimulation in anaesthetized animals , but advances over the last twenty years have enabled us to monitor the single-cell correlates of behavioural activity in alert , freely moving animals ( O'Keefe and Nadel 1978 ; Olds et al . |
| 28 | Second question is about trainers … which trainer has won two Gold Cups in the last ten years … there 's only one … and we want the name |
| 29 | The second question is which trainer has won two Gold Cups in the last ten years |
| 30 | The visitors regained some respectability with Hanley and Dixon tries in the last 10 minutes . |