Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 2 | Later they were supplied by specialist brickmakers whose numbers increased greatly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Europe disappeared from the political imagination for the duration , not merely during the last month of the campaign , but during a large part of the long and tedious pre-campaign . |
| 4 | Certainly , the appearance and spreading of turbulent spots , described below as the last stages of transition , are commonly observed in uncontrolled transition ( e.g. Fig. 17.18 ) . |
| 5 | So Frances and Mrs Malloy — four grown-up children and seven grandchildren — danced together for the last couple of hours . |
| 6 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 7 | This animal rolls up into an almost perfect ball , with the top of the head and the top of the tail fitting close together like the last pieces of a jigsaw puzzle , leaving no gap anywhere for a predator to probe . |
| 8 | DOWNPATRICK races will start later than usual next Wednesday — at 4.00pm with the last race at 6.30pm . |
| 9 | It 's only within the last couple of year , and then oh no you can nae do a certain of the er it was actually our vice president at the started the campaign over in Fife , and they won through . |
| 10 | In the desperate circumstances of Edward 's war , especially in the last years of the reign , prayer was not always enough and the clergy had frequent occasions to become in a literal sense the church militant . |
| 11 | The landlord may wish to have some control over the external colour scheme , but the tenant should resist a provision for the landlord 's consent to the internal colour scheme , except perhaps in the last year of the term where the tenant does not propose to seek a renewal . |
| 12 | Perhaps in the last decade of this century something of a change in attitude to sculpture is becoming evident . |
| 13 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 14 | One was a tall , large-featured and forbidding man , dressed in black velvet , and the other was a masked lady , obviously in the last stages of bearing a child . |
| 15 | So in the last half of February Fleischmann and Pons had a detector with which they could count neutrons . |
| 16 | Their total estimate is for 220,000 dwellings annually until 1991 ( and rather less in the last decade of the century ) . |
| 17 | Only in the last decades of the century was morphology replaced by paleontology as the chief focus of attention in the reconstruction of what the German morphologist Ernst Haeckel called ‘ phylogeny ’ ( evolutionary history ) . |
| 18 | Indeed , according to Booth , it is only in the last couple of years that it has focused on product marketing . |
| 19 | What , only in the last couple of days ? |
| 20 | I was reading an article only in the last couple of days where it was talking about not particularly tourism , it was talking about a business that was in difficulty , and it said , you know , do you actually make people redundant , you do you stop advertising and you know the bottom line is you 've got to keep advertising because if you do n't tell people you 're there nobody 's going to come and buy your product , whatever it is , and you 're going to disappear anyway . |
| 21 | Yet , only in the last half of the 20th century has a select band of some 200 people been able to call themselves astronauts — ‘ travellers in interplanetary space ’ . |
| 22 | It can also be said that , unlike Winckelmann , Hölderlin has some intuitive appreciation of the Greek spirit 's darker depths to which Nietzsche will later attach the name " flionysiac " — although Hölderlin gives them no such definition , and only in the last draft of his unfinished dramatic poem , The Death of Empedocles , do these depths receive a comparably urgent emphasis . |
| 23 | Only in the last months of her life did it appear that her policy might not be sustained , because of the changed situation in England and France . |
| 24 | The Mechonoids appeared only in the last episode of ‘ The Chase ’ before they disappeared , never to be seen on Television again . |
| 25 | Remember Liverpool only got their act together in the last couple of months and finished 6th . |
| 26 | Formby-born tournament referee Alan Mills said : ‘ It was a difficult decision bearing in mind he has not played much in the last couple of months because of injury . |
| 27 | All these questions relate to a captain 's last Test as captain , not necessarily to the last Test in which he played . |
| 28 | The Scottish women 's teams have been held annually on the last weekend in February since before the war , but some five years ago the male members of the SBU council decided this was unfair and established the national men 's teams held in Perth on Sunday . |
| 29 | And this year , I found myself in Exmouth , with members of my local RSPB group , boarding the Devon Princess 11 at 1pm on the last Saturday in February . |
| 30 | AND so to the last page of the album … and surely the final chapter in the Yorks ' marriage . |