Example sentences of "[prep] the last [noun] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 3 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 4 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 5 | London 's venerable red and cream double-deckers rumbled along the Thames embankment for the last time in 1952 . |
| 6 | Beckford was as impatient as Vathek to complete his building , but did not have a magical assistant ; the tower twice collapsed , for the last time in 1825 , and Beckford 's contractor confessed upon his death-bed that he had not provided it with foundations , although they had been specified and paid for . |
| 7 | The First Level Certificate in Commercial Studies will be offered for the last time in 1993 . |
| 8 | George and Tony used to pay themselves £350 a week after setting up the firm at the height of the last recession in 1982 . |
| 9 | It shows how the present position compares with the depths of the last recession in 1982 when 23 per cent of such companies were at risk . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | AT THIS stage of the last election in 1987 I was in the middle of writing a column when I had a call to say that the Sunday paper in which it was to appear had closed down . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In elections in the south-eastern province of Styria ( Steiermark ) on Sept. 22 , the far-right opposition Freedom Party of Austria ( Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs — FPÖ — whose leader , Jörg Haider , had in June been compelled to step down as governor of Carinthia — see p. 38298 ) made significant gains , increasing its support by more than 10 per cent to 14.6 per cent , compared with the last elections in 1986 [ see p. 34695 ] . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That was true before the last referendum in 1979 . |
| 16 | In the last election in 1984 , it scored 24 wins out of 28 . |
| 17 | ‘ I was sixth out of 21 in the last championships in 1987 . |
| 18 | There are now 25,000 swans on waterways compared with 19,000 in the last count in 1983 , according to the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust . |
| 19 | Following the May elections the distribution of seats was SPD 71 ( 66 in the last elections in 1986 — see pp. 34503-04 ) ; CDU 67 ( 69 ) ; FDP 9 ( 9 ) ; Greens 8 ( 11 ) . |
| 20 | In a general election on May 6 in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC — recognised only by Turkey ) the ruling National Unity Party ( UBP or NUP ) won 55 per cent of the vote and 34 of the 50 seats in the Legislative Assembly ( as against 37 per cent of the vote and 24 seats in the last elections in 1985 — see pp. 34067-68 ) . |
| 21 | 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 ] . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Near-unanimous support was expressed for increasing current subscription rates , especially in the light of 50% inflation since the last increases in 1986 . |
| 25 | Since the last appeal in 1985 the trustees have spent more than £1 million on the restoration of the fabric of the buildings as well as on restoring the high cross of St John , now on display in the Abbey Museum . |
| 26 | THE population of England and Wales has increased by nearly 1.4 million since the last count in 1981 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Since the last exhibition in 1987 , there have been enormous political , economic and ideological changes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | THE number of visitors to this year 's Birmingham Motor Show topped 650,000 , a 45pc increase on the last show in 1990 , it was announced yesterday . |