Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.

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1 These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned .
2 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 .
3 This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra .
4 New Roof Installed Within The Last Twelve Months
5 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 ) .
6 The Secretaryship , possibly joint with Club Stewardship , was in the control of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Young from 1914 to 1921 at which Annual General Meeting they were presented with some silver ‘ for keeping the club going for the last six years ’ .
7 The apprentices from RAF Halton In Buckinghamshire have been keeping the air force flying for the last seventy two years .
8 If the hon. Gentleman examines measures of GDP per head and compares this country with France , Germany or Italy , he will find that the gap widened under the last Labour Government and has closed under the present Government .
9 A catalogue of disorderly incidents have occurred at baseball matches in the last two decades .
10 In line with other insurance companies , the group announced lower bonus rates for its life assurance and pensions schemes in response to poorer investment returns over the last few years .
11 Just as the architecture built in the last thirty years in East and West Berlin reflects the different societies , so will what is to be built , play a part in determining the future of the united city .
12 Two aspects which will need careful consideration will be the future role of the Tate Gallery 's outposts , in Liverpool and elsewhere , and the special exhibiting needs of work produced in the last twenty to thirty years .
13 Much of the new equipment used in the last five Tours is there because LeMond used it first .
14 I hope that those pieces of correspondence supplied for the last 2 addresses are acceptable .
15 Cornwall has kept the Championship flag flying for the last few years and has continued to emphasise my own view that such a competition could have an important place .
16 ‘ I 'll see you in , ’ he said when the car 's engine died on a last throaty purr in the Hamiltons ' driveway .
17 The IRA 's bombing campaign cost the taxpayer a staggering £102.5m in compensation claims over the last 12 months .
18 The IRA 's bombing campaign cost the taxpayer a staggering £102.5m in compensation claims over the last 12 months .
19 There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning .
20 He added that no household-name company had escaped making job cuts over the last two years .
21 His confidence stems from the last two victories .
22 Across the open space one could look down on the town , a busy , self-important place boosted in the last few years by highrise office blocks full of income-tax men and VAT clerks .
23 The only big businesses to receive a boost were oil companies : they will be allowed to write off the total cost of shutting down offshore oil fields against any corporation tax incurred during the last three years of a field 's working life .
24 The group demonstrated ‘ the highest level of scepticism of any major group surveyed within the last 20 years ’ , said McClenon .
25 ‘ A lot of shareholders have turned down generous takeover bids over the last few years and have regretted it , ’ he said .
26 The population of the town doubled in the last forty years of the eighteenth century ( thirty-five thousand people in 1760 ; seventy-three thousand in 1801 ) , but it was as yet far from being the dark and horrible landscape that it eventually became .
27 Huge there 's been huge drug busting over the last two years .
28 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 .
29 I lay there , my eyes and head swimming through the last forty years until sleep finally bailed me out .
30 STEPHEN HENDRY last night advanced to the last eight of the Humo European Open in Antwerp with a narrow 5-4 victory over Dennis Taylor .
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