Example sentences of "[adv] for the last [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 2 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 3 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 4 | Murrells spent ten years in the reserve , kept there for the last few years against his will because Mitchell considered him indispensable . |
| 5 | Turn inland for the last few miles . ’ |