Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Back at your desk , the Companion fits seamlessly with your full-size PC for the last work in time-saving efficiency . |
| 3 | Similar acrobatics came into play for the last episode of the seven-part series , a forty-five-minute Christmas special in which Frank learns to fly . |
| 4 | We have n't had overtime for the last couple of weeks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season . |
| 7 | Nevin , out in the cold for the last year at Goodison , said : ‘ I 'm aiming to create as many goals as possible for Aldo and help take Tranmere into the Premier League . |
| 8 | Take a path south for the last 100yds to the summit cairn . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gloucester again relinquished peripheral holdings in exchange for the last addition to his Yorkshire estates in March 1478 , shortly after the execution of Clarence . |
| 11 | Gloucester again relinquished peripheral holdings in exchange for the last addition to his Yorkshire estates in March 1478 , shortly after the execution of Clarence . |
| 12 | Dennis Ramsdale , caretaker coach since Jim Crellin 's resignation , will pick the team for the last time for tonight 's home game against St Helens . |
| 13 | Even though Common had returned to the team for the last month of the previous season and kept them up when relegation seemed inevitable , the club chairman offered him a free transfer providing he did n't claim the £250 benefit money promised to him earlier . |
| 14 | Today Fred 's 23-year-old son David will take his place in the team for the last match of the season . |
| 15 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |
| 16 | The loch ends at Aberchalder and it was back to the canal for the last haul to Fort Augustus and Loch Ness . |
| 17 | A complete candidate string is only allowable if the end-of-word flag is set at the node in the tree for the last letter of the string ( see flowchart D2 in Appendix D ) . |
| 18 | The keynote for the last years of Offa , however , is sounded by an event much closer to home than the Carolingian court . |
| 19 | Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography , the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street , the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains , the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor , the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe , the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan , the perversion-targeting in video mail-order , the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs . |
| 20 | I 've been promising myself a drink for the last couple of hours … ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |
| 23 | You raised a very , very significant issue that I have n't heard much addressed in recent days and we know that there has n't really been a super power of the Soviet Union and any other military sense for the last couple of years . |
| 24 | It would have been a particular thrill to have met the man who could pen such material , she mused as she closed the lid on her suitcase for the last time on Tuesday morning , but she knew that that was out of the question . |
| 25 | Assigning a null string to stop$ prevents the space for the last entry in the array being recovered when it is emptied . |
| 26 | The play drew standing-room-only crowds at Tokyo 's Nissay Theatre for the last part of its three-week run in January . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The £700,000 striker missed the last two games with a badly bruised shoulder , but he has been back in training for the last couple of days and will have a late fitness check tonight . |
| 29 | For the last year of his life he suffered from myeloma , a form of bone cancer , and entered hospital for the last time in July where he made friends with another patient who , unfortunately , soon died . |
| 30 | Communication becomes difficult in a big team , and slack rope is more likely between the climbers , creating potential for the last member of a large team to fall and pull off those above . |