Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men claimed that for the last six weeks women and children had been ‘ assaulted and humiliated ’ during raids on houses in loyalist areas . |
| 2 | For the last four years work has been going on behind the scenes and while over six million passengers per annum used the terminal during this project , few were aware of what was happening . |
| 3 | For the last five years Fortran has led a very quiet life , so quiet in fact the launch of new Fortran specifications two years ago , called Fortran90 , have pretty much gone unnoticed even by Fortran users . |
| 4 | For the last five years Volkov has been drinking himself to death . |
| 5 | Kurt Forster , for the last eight years Director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities at Santa Monica , has resigned to accept the Chair in the History of Art and Architecture at Zurich 's Federal Polytechnic . |
| 6 | For the last 6,000 years Hong Kong 's coastline has remained unchanged . |
| 7 | For the last 5 years Swindon Health Authority has denied responsibility . |
| 8 | Every morning for the last two weeks staff from Gloucester City Council have picketted outside their North Warehouse office . |
| 9 | For the last two years Bob Mayhew has given demonstrations at the Horse and Rider Show which have proved very popular , and this year has been requested to give a teach-in at the Olympia Christmas Show . |
| 10 | For the last two years Hodder has run publicity for fiction and paperbacks and for non-fiction out of two units and under two managers , Beth MacDougall and Sally Randall . |
| 11 | For the last 20 years researchers have been able to calculate genome sizes and mutation rates . |
| 12 | For the last three years Steve and Rose have lived in London , having moved from Nottingham so that Steve could take a course in carpentry . |
| 13 | For the last three years OUP 's text processing systems have used an ICL 2904 for its main processing with certain programs on a Burroughs B6800 . |
| 14 | For the last three years Bowler , 32 , had been taking anti-depressant medication as a result of her husband 's treatment of her . |
| 15 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 16 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 17 | For the last few years Pinfield had been based with the Langham Group , a somewhat elitist special projects body under Anthony Pellisier charged with producing very experimental forms of drama — using techniques like inlay , overlay and split screening ; for example , matting caption slide backgrounds over black drape stages . |
| 18 | For the last few years Weir has been one of the most consistent performers of any quoted Scottish company , with a steady improvement in sales and profits . |
| 19 | Superimposed colours , transparency and opacity , signs of rust where moisture has seeped into the cloth stretched over the frame : for the last ten years Michel Mouffe 's work has created its own history through the layered transformations taking place within the canvas . |
| 20 | For the last ten years interest in the double-breasted suit has been enthusiastically revived , but now the single-breasted has its champions again . |
| 21 | For the last forty years population growth has been used an explanation for African famine , allowing us to blame Africans for bringing their poverty upon themselves . |
| 22 | During the last two days labourers had climbed every local coconut tree to find enough nuts at the precise stage when the juice starts turning into flesh . |
| 23 | The point on which I want to concentrate here is that during the last two centuries changes in the law and in employment policies progressively have excluded both the youngest and the oldest generations from the labour market , and therefore from the means to support themselves through earning wages . |
| 24 | During the last two years requests from schools to visit the farm increased by almost 50 per cent and this convinced the couple that a proper arable trail was needed . |
| 25 | During the last two years Yorkshire Image , a Ripon-based project dedicated to preserving and presenting historic film and photographs of traditional Yorkshire , has been mounting exhibitions of Louisa 's work in villages near Boroughbridge , where she took most of her pictures . |
| 26 | During the last twelve months subjects that would have been considered taboo , in this Country , have received widespread media attention . |
| 27 | During the last ninety years El Niño , one of the Pacific Ocean 's more enigmatic problems , has occurred nine times — in 1891 , 1925 , 1941 , 1953 , 1958 , 1965 , 1973 , 1976 and 1983 . |
| 28 | During the last twenty years advertising has enjoyed many important changes such as the introduction of colour television commercial radio , and colour printing in newspapers . |
| 29 | During the last few minutes Hazel had been as near to losing his head as he was ever to come . |
| 30 | During the last ten years Britain has changed , very often for the worse , the nature of work has changed and we the trade union Movement have not changed fast enough to keep up with the pace . |