Example sentences of "[art] last [prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of the King , the marshes and mud-flats of Earnbank were already filled with struggling men as his own dismounted vanguard disposed of the last of the fifty intruders from the Forth landing . |
| 2 | He said that the last of the 14 fences was too brightly painted and frightened some of the horses . |
| 3 | The last of the five periods identified by Geary is the 1980s , when industrial confrontation reverted to a more violent form . |
| 4 | Instead , there came to be a vehement emphasis on the ending of the age of miracle and revelation now that the last of the twelve apostles was dead . |
| 5 | At the age of 75 , he is the last of the four leaders of the original military junta , the last to talk still of the high crusade against communism . |
| 6 | I get out I get out of bed at eight o' clock when the last of the lodgers has gone well the last of the two lodgers |
| 7 | It was a term of the said haulage contract that payment of the agreed price would be made within 21 days of the last of the nine deliveries . |
| 8 | Over the week-end , the last of the 20,000 travellers left Castlemorton and travelled to various destinations . |
| 9 | , Emily ( 1835–1895 ) , printer and propagandist for women 's employment , was born 27 May 1835 at Headley rectory , Surrey , the youngest of five daughters and the last of the eight children of the Revd Ferdinand Faithfull , rector of Headley , and his wife Elizabeth Mary . |
| 10 | Guisborough entertain Stokesley , Saltburn/Marske and Whitby in the last of the six Moors swimming league heats on Saturday ( 2pm ) . |
| 11 | Phil shot a level par 71 in the last of the six events at Mere to finish fourth equal and clinch the title by 80 points from Huddersfield 's Paul Carman . |
| 12 | Parry , nicknamed Popeye because of his bulging forearms , dropped two shots in five holes and title favourite Faldo moved menacingly alongside the Australian to share the lead on level par , while Lyle was the last of the 28 starters . |
| 13 | They were the last of the 106 detainees arrested in October 1987 under the ISA [ see pp. 35772 ; 36557 ] . |
| 14 | So begins the last of the Ten Commandments ( Exodus 20:17 ) . |
| 15 | In the drive are two black Range Rovers , in the garage , an Aston Martin — the last of the 20 cars including Ferraris , Maseratis and Rollers he once owned . |
| 16 | Mr Lang was speaking after announcing the membership of the last of the 15 boards — the Yorkhill trust in Glasgow . |
| 17 | In the final collected edn. of SB it appears as the last of the seven items grouped under the title ‘ Our Parish ’ to form the first section of the book . |
| 18 | And a grievous weeping came from the last of the three reeds . |
| 19 | I slid the last of the three jackets over the plain black sheath , re-glossed my lips , re-spiked my hair and ‘ … |
| 20 | Then if we evaluate unc as a chain , beginning by premultiplying A by the last of the three matrices in ( 4 ) , and if also we take unc then A is first replaced by a matrix in which the leading element of the infradiagonal vanishes . |
| 21 | Lord Lane said : ‘ No mention is to be made of any of the facts upon which these three orders were founded until after the conclusion of the last of the three trials involved , whenever that may be . ’ |
| 22 | The answer to the last of the three questions should perhaps be put the other way round . |
| 23 | We are now validating and approving the last of the three batches of courses for the new system and , apart from a few special cases , this will mean that all students beginning an advanced course after the summer will be enrolling for a modular , rather than traditional , course . |
| 24 | C. Across most of Devon and Cornwall the landforms are like those shown in the last of the three diagrams on the next page . |
| 25 | have the last of the Three Nuns and cleaners . |
| 26 | The tunnelling phase of the Channel Tunnel linking England and France was completed on June 27 , 1991 , with the linking of the last of the three tunnels [ for linking of north-bound rail tunnel in May 1991 see p. 38209 ] . |
| 27 | By the last of the three weeks the Gofer teams were performing brilliantly . |
| 28 | Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October . |