Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] for the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 2 | AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement . |
| 3 | AFTER more than 31 years working for , electrical engineer has packed away his drawing board for the last time and started his retirement . |
| 4 | By the sa at the same time , I obtained the lab analyses for the last year . |
| 5 | Now , as the son came to see the marble bust for the last time , court photographers crowded around to capture the poignancy of the son saying goodbye , presumably with a sense of terrible failure , to the father for whom he had never been good enough . |
| 6 | From a technical point of view this is mainly nip and tuck stuff , but Microsoft is betting that the innovative use of existing technology will be a winner and is finally cashing in on all the application programming interfaces , dynamic data exchange , object linking and embedding facilities that it has been burying in its applications and operating systems for the last couple of years . |
| 7 | On 14 December 1989 , she visited the Casa Republicii for the last time and expressed alarm on seeing that one of the decorative features of the stairways leading to the southern entrance of the palace had the image of a cross when seen from high above . |
| 8 | Dr Mark Almond , lecturer in Modern History at Oriel College , Oxford , makes the point that the centre party , though only supported by 11 per cent of the vote , has controlled the foreign and economics ministries for the last generation . |
| 9 | A part of one of Scotland 's most historic regiments this afternoon marched off the parade ground for the last time . |
| 10 | Part of one of Scotland 's most historic regiments has marched off the parade ground for the last time . |
| 11 | In practice , student occupancy for the last week of the Christmas and Easter terms averages 50 per cent , while that for the last two weeks of the summer term is 33 per cent . |
| 12 | As n overflow records will require ( n — 1 ) full revolutions , to which the seek and processing times for the last record have to be added , this estimate will get more accurate the more records there are in the overflow chain . |
| 13 | Holyoak believes that the council has been bamboozled into adopting LET's monolithic scheme which has had outline planning permission for the last year . |
| 14 | Visitor numbers for the last Biennale were around 40,000 . |
| 15 | On Feb 28 , 1990 , the SPC approved a draft law for the last year of the five-year plan , and agreed new terms under which property might be more freely hired and transferred . |
| 16 | Take a path south for the last 100yds to the summit cairn . |
| 17 | He had been feeling sick ever since they left the main junction and climbed into the joggling , jolting line train for the last lap of their journey , but the sudden whistle had finished him . |
| 18 | At eleven forty-five , Laura Maingay switched off her cassette dictaphone for the last time and ran it back to the beginning . |
| 19 | On 16 January the Shah and the Empress , Farah Dida left the Niavaran Palace for the last time . |
| 20 | As you pass round the plant stem for the last time , turn the cord through between stem and stake and wrap the turns , pulling the cord tight to form a firm collar as shown in Figure 5 . |
| 21 | The VAT returns for the last quarter are due in , and that big ( very profitable ) convention which took over the hotel for three weeks last year is imminent but you ca n't get at your data . |
| 22 | The play drew standing-room-only crowds at Tokyo 's Nissay Theatre for the last part of its three-week run in January . |
| 23 | The first or basic text is this , sung by Bilbo as he leaves Bag End for the last time : |
| 24 | The appeal target for the last Games in Auckland in 1990 was also £250,000 and , significantly perhaps was not reached , £195,000 including sponsorship from McEwans of £100,000 being raised . |