Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the last [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a general election on May 6 in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC — recognised only by Turkey ) the ruling National Unity Party ( UBP or NUP ) won 55 per cent of the vote and 34 of the 50 seats in the Legislative Assembly ( as against 37 per cent of the vote and 24 seats in the last elections in 1985 — see pp. 34067-68 ) . |
| 2 | The World Council Churches on this occasion reviewed the work accomplished during the seven and a half years since the last assembly in Vancouver in Canada . |
| 3 | But to return to sea-birds and the possible causes of the problems they are facing today , we must look back fifty years to the last war in Europe . |
| 4 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 5 | Figures for the last week in November — the latest available — show about 30 cases per 100,000 population . |
| 6 | Figures for the last week in November — the latest available — show about 30 cases per 100,000 population . |
| 7 | Bonnie and Clyde ( 1967 ) was one of the most influential American movies of the last decades in its amoral attitude to ‘ the outlaw ’ , seen from a modern psychological and social viewpoint . |
| 8 | The project is investigating changes over the last decade in Cheltenham 's economic , social and political structure resulting from broad national and international trends . |
| 9 | It is always prepared to lend to the discount houses in the last resort in order to ensure adequate liquidity in the economy . |
| 10 | But Aherne , on his game , has the considerable virtues of gritty defence , stretching far beyond the normal demands on a scrum-half , so often turning up to save situations as the last line in the defensive fortifications . |
| 11 | Although we 'd been left pretty much to our own devices in the last months in the Pit , the year and a half underground had become increasingly depressing . |
| 12 | The Dinas Mawddwy Railway is remarkable even by the standards of the last century in that it was financed largely by just one man , Mr Edmund Buckley of Bryn Hall , Llanymawddwy . |
| 13 | It shows how the present position compares with the depths of the last recession in 1982 when 23 per cent of such companies were at risk . |
| 14 | For example , the reduction in manufacturing jobs over the last decades in some high wage countries has forced workers to seek jobs in other less well paid and less secure sectors or , as has happened particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom , forced older workers displaced from traditional industries ( like mining and steel-making ) into permanent unemployment . |
| 15 | Everybody 's aware that this may well be the last Gen , the last Party Conference before the General Election , and what is more , of , an impression of the terrific progress that the Labour Party 's made in recent years , and further gains over the last year in terms of public support , so that we really are on the threshold of a General Election campaign which we realistically hope to win , and we 've got the policies in place to meet the needs of the nation for the nineties . |