Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the last [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 2 | Back at your desk , the Companion fits seamlessly with your full-size PC for the last work in time-saving efficiency . |
| 3 | Do n't zoom the lens in and out , either , but save this effect for the last shot in which you zoom out to a wide view of the garden again . |
| 4 | This is usually the key of the last record in the block , as is shown in Fig. 7.15 . |
| 5 | A Goebbels article in Das Reich at the beginning of March , in which he had emphasized ‘ the great honour of the victims and of holding out for the new Europe ’ , for which it was worthwhile ‘ fighting to the last man in order to go down in history ’ , met with heavy criticism . |
| 6 | We have spent a good part of the last decade in a long and often rather frustrating attempt to identify them ( most recently by trying to make specific antibodies that will recognize them ) . |
| 7 | Historically associative theories have their origins in the latter part of the last century in a reaction against current introspective approaches in psychology . |
| 8 | COACH Ian McGeechan , whose background includes eight Tests for the Lions between 1974 and 1977 plus being coach of the last Lions in 1989 , rates New Zealand ‘ the ultimate challenge ’ . |
| 9 | Dehaene , 51 , came from the trade union wing of the Flemish Christian Socials ( CVP ) ; he had negotiated the formation of the last coalition in 1988 [ see pp. 36047-49 ] and was seen as an expert mediator . |
| 10 | The shot that came back off Shilton 's bar in the last minute in Chorzow — a couple of inches lower , and England might have been on their way out of the World Cup — was a symbolic warning . |
| 11 | I happen for my sins to have been shadow Chancellor since the last election in 1987 , during which period there have been three Chancellors of the Exchequer . |
| 12 | At Tibnin , the ruins are the highest point in the last village in southern Lebanon still held by a Muslim militia . |
| 13 | All former pupils are invited to events which take place on the last weekend in June . |
| 14 | THE annual fun weekend organised by the Resource Centre , Carnhill , will this year take place over the last weekend in May . |
| 15 | The 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey provides an excellent opportunity to review current policies and practices in the field and to study changes which have taken place since the last survey in 1980 . |
| 16 | As a result , the period begins at midnight on the named date , and expires at midnight of the last day in the period . |
| 17 | I was working like a madman right up to the minute of the last show in London , then I collapsed in the studio . |
| 18 | I was working like a madman right up to the minute of the last show in London , then I collapsed in the studio . |
| 19 | Under the amended election law the president was provided with the power to appoint new deputies to replace those who had died or had left the Assembly since the last elections in 1972 . |
| 20 | Near-unanimous support was expressed for increasing current subscription rates , especially in the light of 50% inflation since the last increases in 1986 . |
| 21 | Reports also indicated continuing differences over interest rates [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38170 ; 38314 ] following a rise in inflation over the last year in six of the G-7 countries . |
| 22 | Notice what we said earlier on in that last verse , the last phrase of the last verse in the previous chapter , he who has ears to hear let him hear . |
| 23 | But there was a net gain of some thirty seats to the Unionists in direct comparison with the last elections in 1910 , a strong position for a party that was already the largest in parliament . |
| 24 | Gross investment in plant and machinery in the last year in which the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) had stewardship of these matters , at constant 1985 prices , was just over £17 billion . |
| 25 | Higher long-term interest rates and a ceiling-busting yen amount to an effective tightening in monetary policy since the last cut in the official discount rate in early February . |
| 26 | This is in sharp contrast to the pattern at the last observation in hospital , where activity levels tended to peak on only three occasions ( breakfast , lunch , and tea ) . |
| 27 | Assigning a null string to stop$ prevents the space for the last entry in the array being recovered when it is emptied . |
| 28 | He won the US Championship for the last time in 1971 , and continued to play well into his seventies , finishing equal first at the Reykjavik open in 1984 . |
| 29 | Not far away was the great sweep of the Radnor Forest , and beyond it the Elan valley where peregrines nested , the Towy valley with the last kites in Britain , and Tregaron Bog where wild geese came in winter . |
| 30 | Likud had portrayed the elections as a test of political strength and was disappointed with the result although it improved slightly on its performance in the last elections in 1985 [ see p. 34008 ] . |