Example sentences of "[prep] the last [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Max Henry , who 's kicked around NeXT Inc for the last four-and-a-half years in sales and software recruitment roles , mostly recently holding the post of VP and general manager , Asia Pacific , has jumped shipped to head up the American arm of windowing house JSB as president . |
| 2 | His own firm had been picketed for the last five months in a dispute over the use of new technology . |
| 3 | Table 3 shows recall to be significantly greater for the last five words in the list when recall is immediate and thus supports the recency effect . |
| 4 | These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club . |
| 5 | And you know it , it 's amazing how since my involvement for the last two years in Great Britain , all the problems that you have with critical illness , all the problems . |
| 6 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 7 | The CDA 's share of the vote , at 32.7 per cent , although marginally up on its result for the last municipal elections in 1986 [ see p. 34309 ] , compared aversely with 35.3 per cent in the September 1989 general election [ see p. 36900 ] . |
| 8 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 9 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 10 | They 're also acting as one of the major exhibition venues for Oxfordshire Artweek , which is running for the last 2 weeks in May . |
| 11 | MINERS at Monktonhall colliery have not been paid any wages for the last seven weeks in an effort to ease the venture 's cash-flow problems , it was revealed last night . |
| 12 | Composing himself , Sir Michael pressed on : ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend reflect on the great progress that has been made during the last 10 years in the well-being of our country and the competitiveness of our industries and … |
| 13 | In a statement on Nov. 22 the Karen National Union ( KNU ) estimated that over 800 civilians , 375 government troops and 27 Karen guerrillas had been killed as a result of fighting during the last six weeks in the lower central Irrawaddy Delta , south-east of Rangoon . |
| 14 | It is conservatively estimated that not less than 120,000 persons have died of actual starvation during the last two years in the Lebanon alone . |
| 15 | He had played a conciliatory role in ending the players ' strike during the last labour-contract negotiations in 1990 and some owners felt they could not fully trust him to be their man this time round . |
| 16 | These included a multiparty system , the resignation of the provincial LC leadership , equal rights for Kosovar Albanians , the release of political prisoners and an end to political trials , and the lifting of the state of emergency in the province ( imposed during the last serious disturbances in Kosovo in February-March 1989 — see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ) . |
| 17 | Previously a very short-legged blocky type , it is growing longer , leaner and taller , especially during the last 10–20 years in America , Australia and New Zealand , by careful and selective breeding . |
| 18 | There have certainly been marked changes in Britain during the last few decades in both the ideals and practicalities of family life . |
| 19 | Many hundreds of casts of these human fossils have since been made , and from them we can learn a good deal about the last appalling hours in the life of Pompeii . |
| 20 | It took a very short time indeed , and with every step Jenna 's trembling lessened , although she refused to think about the last few moments in the barn with Alain . |
| 21 | There is only one type of personal family document which survives right through the last three centuries in really significant numbers . |
| 22 | Sow the seeds in a propagator at 64°F ( 19°C ) in Feb/March , and set out young plants in the garden in late May , or after the last likely frosts in your area . |
| 23 | Played in three of the last four games in fact . |
| 24 | I required to make three of the last four tricks in the situation shown below , knowing that both opponents also held only Spades and Diamonds at this stage : |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't throw away the policies — the outstandingly successful policies — of the last 13 years in an idle moment . |
| 26 | Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 27 | Yet much of the research of the last fifteen years in writing has challenged this view . |
| 28 | The difference between those spending all and those spending some of the last twelve months in a home persisted when the analysis is confined to those for whom relatives responded . |
| 29 | AFTER all of the excitement of the last two weekends in June it was time to take a break . |
| 30 | William Wegman usually appears in books on the art of the last two decades in his role as a pioneer Conceptual artist — and in particular as author of a piece called " Family Combinations " ( 1972 ) . |