Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A lot of shareholders have turned down generous takeover bids over the last few years and have regretted it , ’ he said . |
| 2 | We have made a survey of the overall mortgage costs in the last one , three and five years . |
| 3 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 4 | The inaugural exhibition concentrates on the last six years of the artist 's life . |
| 5 | The most egregious case occurs in the last entrée , in which |
| 6 | Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maiolica has in the last few years returned to popularity ( the recent exhibition of the maiolica collections of the Metropolitan Museum was regularly crowded , to the amazement of Met officials ) , though most of its present day collectors are Italian . |
| 7 | The first Attic black-figure coincides with the last phase of the old Geometric and orientalising tradition of the monumental grave-vase . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |