Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.

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1 Words that have in the last fifteen years or so , become synonymous with the name of Hood Yacht Systems .
2 The Great River swept sluggishly through meads that were aflame with buttercups and dotted with the last patches of melting snow .
3 The wedding bells that sounded on the last page of so many ‘ romantic ’ novels of the last century are still sounding in certain genres but in the adventure story they seldom sound at all .
4 For a start , the figures exclude transactions that occurred on the last two business days of the month — the very time when pressure on the pound was thought to be most intense .
5 To illustrate , we will reconsider the last example and assume that the individual did not close his position after five days but waited for the last trading day which was the following day .
6 In such conditions as prevailed in the last phase of the Weimar Republic , of the total discrediting of a State system based upon pluralist politics , the ‘ functional ’ leadership of the bureaucrat and the Party politician as the representatives of the impersonal ‘ rational-legal ’ form of political domination , imposing laws and carrying out functions for which they are not personally responsible and with which they are not identifiable , lost credibility .
7 Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti .
8 The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision .
9 Yet/in any event we have a firm idea about the most effective path and unreservedly recommend that at the beginning of the project one looks at the list of telephone numbers and addresses on the last page of this brochure .
10 After assurances from US officials that the USA would continue to monitor the peace process , the FMLN demobilized its last contingent of around 2,000 combatants and turned in the last of its weapons ( including 55 surface-to-air missiles ) to the UN on Dec. 14 .
11 A more intensively studied pathway is that leading from the cerci or paraprocts through the last abdominal ganglion up ascending giant axons in the ventral nerve cord .
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