Example sentences of "[noun prp] for the last [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the authors lived in St Helens for the last three weeks of the strike , becoming as immersed as possible in all aspects of the activities of the strike committee . |
| 2 | Mr Young , 77 , who directed the James Bond movies Dr No and From Russia With Love , has lived in Cannes for the last 20 years . |
| 3 | But Bob Bagnell , who has imported charcoal from Indonesia for the last four years , says his source is not endangering the environment . |
| 4 | He coached Fareham , then managed Gosport before arriving at Basingstoke for the last three games of last season . |
| 5 | He coached Fareham , then managed Gosport before arriving at Basingstoke for the last three games of last season . |
| 6 | Waverley 's opening statement came from vice-chair Michele Munro , who said the trust board felt it was time to offer the benefits former Scottish Homes tenants in the Borders had enjoyed with Waverley for the last four years to Tweeddale tenants . |
| 7 | The foursome , whose single End Of The Road has been at number one in the States for the last three weeks , were barred from entering New Orleans to do their live satellite link-up with the Beeb show . |
| 8 | DEC has filled the critical post of head of worldwide sales and marketing , naming Edward Lucente , once an IBM bright light and a top guy at Northern Telecom for the last two years , completing its new executive roster . |
| 9 | On his last mission he joined fellow Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev for the last three months of his marathon 11 months in orbit . |
| 10 | Vocational training for the actor as we know it has only existed in England for the last eighty years . |
| 11 | Huntingtower has been cared for by custodian John Forsyth for the last 14 years . |
| 12 | A Bolivian , born in Paris into the Ortiz-Patino family who made their fortune in tin mining in South America after World War I , Ortiz has been resident in Geneva for the last twenty-five years . |
| 13 | All the drawings were published in a magisterial catalogue by Peter Fuhring in 1987 and have been with Hazlitt for the last eighteen months . |
| 14 | Robert wondered how this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis had managed to carry on like this in Wimbledon for the last seventy years . |
| 15 | Being another only child , and as my father 's job had kept my parents in Singapore for the last two years , I now spent most of my holidays with my aunt and cousin , timing them to come in Dickie 's school holidays . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give the figures for steel production in the United Kingdom for the last two years for which figures are available . |
| 17 | Frances has been working at Ashworth for the last four years . |
| 18 | There have been people in Australia for the last 40000 years and claims for their presence there in the last interglacial have been made . |
| 19 | The England captain said : ‘ We 've done it despite a lot of injuries and we 've been without Mark Waugh for the last six matches because he 's with the Australian team in Sri Lanka . |
| 20 | And the language and idiom of the broadcasts has dated : ‘ There has been a great deal of soft soap talked about God for the last hundred years . |
| 21 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 22 | Funded by the countries of the European Community and the European Free Trade Association , the new network is to be called EuropaNet and replaces IXI , the X25-based backbone network that has served the research community across Europe for the last two years . |
| 23 | Engel is German by birth but has lived in Britain for the last 20 years , and this mixed background has been reflected not only in Melancholia 's plot but in its production history , as it has been co-financed by the British Film Institute and the Hamburg company Lichtblick . |
| 24 | THE Horndean Meals on Wheels has been run magnificently by Jean Pinsent for the last seven years — and in expressing their appreciation , Petersfield WRVS tell us that she is retiring . |
| 25 | Thames Transit has been running bus services in Oxford for the last seven years . |
| 26 | Mr Hargreaves , single , a graduate of Bangor University and a fisheries expert , has been a regular visitor to Alaska for the last four years . |
| 27 | Rothesay Castle has been in the capable hands of custodian Fiona Macrae for the last eight years , assisted throughout the summer months by her father Finlay , who has been the seasonal custodian for over twenty years . |
| 28 | , management trainee at Knapton for the last 18 months , moved to Grimsby during April to become the assistant production manager . |
| 29 | Wandering the stalls was South African attorney Ismael Ayob , who has represented the Mandelas for the last twenty years . |
| 30 | Souza has lived in New York for the last 20 years . |