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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Figures for the last week in November — the latest available — show about 30 cases per 100,000 population .
4 Figures for the last week in November — the latest available — show about 30 cases per 100,000 population .
5 The project is investigating changes over the last decade in Cheltenham 's economic , social and political structure resulting from broad national and international trends .
6 It is always prepared to lend to the discount houses in the last resort in order to ensure adequate liquidity in the economy .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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