Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 24 , said : ‘ They agreed to stand in as headliners at the last minute . |
| 2 | The artist was one of the so called Bevin boys , who were drafted in to work as miners during the last war . |
| 3 | When , under the hail of bombs in the last phase of the war , some Nazi cranks and fanatics sent letters to the Propaganda Ministry , extraordinary even for the Third Reich in the depths of inhumanity they plumbed , suggesting the shooting or burning of Jews in retaliation for allied air raids , it was occasionally specifically requested that the ‘ suggestions ’ be sent on to Hitler . |
| 4 | Coppell called a truce in the war of words with his Anfield counterpart Graeme Souness , saying : ‘ There was a flurry of words after the last game , but we both have respect for each other . |
| 5 | Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole . |
| 6 | Excluding privatisation proceeds , the Government borrowed £5.8 billion , but its receipts included £404 million of proceeds from the last tranche of payments on the British Telecom share sale . |
| 7 | TRUE to the traditions of cup competitions , rugby union 's Pilkington version threw up a number of surprises in the last round , not least the demise of all three big West Country clubs . |
| 8 | The number of readers of manuscripts throughout the last decade has fluctuated , never falling below 2,500 and never rising above 3,000 , without any clear trend being visible . |
| 9 | Rather than the last meeting , it was just a couple of days after the last meeting , so rather than wait until now , I circulated all the papers I 'd got . |
| 10 | Clarke , as the architect of the two sets of reforms under the last Government which had shown most signs of being proved right , would best be able to draw on this feeling for Centre-Right support , and would win . |
| 11 | In the gap between that first Hayward retrospective and the current show of paintings from the last decade , Riley has had significant exhibitions in many countries , including two major touring shows . |
| 12 | Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century . |
| 13 | He admits to cashflow forecasts ‘ always late , early , or wrong ’ , not warning of problems until the last minute , and having an overdraft which is higher than it should be . |
| 14 | POLICE have urged owners of mountain cycles to have their property post-coded following a spate of thefts over the last week . |
| 15 | DARLINGTON 's Bank Top railway station has benefited from a major facelift costing millions of pounds over the last decade . |
| 16 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 17 | They seem to have been missing in action , releasing a couple of singles off the last album without providing any back-up tours to promote them . |
| 18 | I reached his side as he finished scanning the list of names on the last page . |
| 19 | By 1700–25 the funeral furnishing trade had become firmly established , providing funerals for all classes of society and at various costs , dependent on the social status of the deceased , basing their street ritual and panoply on that exhibited by the College of Arms during the last quarter of the seventeenth century , diluting or adding to it accordingly . |
| 20 | CW reported on allocation of new machines and re-allocation of replacements , arising out of agreements at the last meeting . |
| 21 | By July , the committee reported that in spite of an increase in the number of members over the last quarter , there had been a loss of trade and a decline in share capital . |
| 22 | A. Thousands of men in the last century were miners in the west of Cornwall . |
| 23 | He dwelt on the pondus sacerdotum : the burden of priests , and more particularly of bishops ( and especially of archbishops ) , was that they would be responsible for the souls of kings at the Last Judgement . |
| 24 | I tried to analyse , through studying a succession of reports in the last decade on community care in general and on services for people with dementia in particular , whether this sort of enhanced role for the voluntary sector had been charted or signalled in any way . |
| 25 | Nicholas Ridley retired from the house of commons at the last election after his outspoken remarks over Europe , he took a peerage and spent the last few months of his life in the House of Lords . |
| 26 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 27 | Manager Paul Malone surveyed another packed treatment room after yesterday 's game with Linfield and said : ‘ We 've suffered a bad run of injuries over the last month . |
| 28 | The mixture of praise and criticism for general practitioners ' care of people in residential homes was similar to comments about their care of others during the last year of their lives . |
| 29 | Ms Hargreaves admitted that one potentially lucrative source of sponsorship had dried up two days previously , when two-year-old Kate stepped out of nappies for the last time . |
| 30 | ‘ There has been a whole series of events in the last year going against the hill sheep farmer , and this could be one of the final straws . ’ |