Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] the last [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm , what we have tried to do at , there are You 've probably seen or heard in the last five or six years , the influence of Japanese technology . |
2 | The vendor will be required to warrant that no industrial action has been taken or threatened in the last few years . |
3 | You can also use your Card to call up the balance , print-out or order a statement , or look at the last few transactions on your account at one or more of the new AutoBanking machines we are installing up and down the country to help you . |
4 | The cubs , all between three and seven weeks old , have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
7 | Discovered and excavated in the last sixty years , they have often been described . |
8 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
9 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
10 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
11 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
12 | IT is a great privilege and pleasure for me to honour my old friend and colleague John Gillam , with whom I have worked and argued over the last thirty years . |
13 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
14 | This part of the country is extraordinarily rich in small sects that grew up and flourished in the last two or three centuries . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | To link Walker with skipper Tony Adams would also continue a partnership which has looked sound and secure in the last two England internationals . |
18 | ‘ I certainly felt badly in need of a rest , having trained and played for the last two to three years virtually without a break . |
19 | These issues have been well raised and aired over the last few months I would like to now raise another issue that I do n't think has been publicized enough that is the issue of under-provision in old age . |
20 | First discovered in 1695 , the pavement has been repeatedly buried and re-exposed over the last three centuries . |
21 | Sister was then transferred to Wythenshawe , and worked for the last 13 years on the chaplaincy team of Wythenshawe Hospital . |
22 | The excavations , a joint venture between British and Italian authorities ( Provincia d'Isernia ) and directed for the last twelve years by the School 's director , Dr Richard Hodges , have shown that for a brief period in the early ninth century San Vincenzo was an exceptional place with far-flung connections . |
23 | Loss of data was therefore small , and analyses with the last available assessment for each subject did not indicate that any bias had been introduced . |
24 | There are a number of grammatical architectures that have been proposed and implemented during the last 30 years . |
25 | But as we leave the twentieth century and reflect on the last 100 years , we should expect more than a shallow gallery of designer fancies . |
26 | The pit is now a museum where visitors can go underground and discover how miners have worked and lived over the last 200 years . |
27 | The programs we use to produce it have been developed and improved over the last few years . |
28 | Early work focused on single cell correlates of sensory stimulation in anaesthetized animals , but advances over the last twenty years have enabled us to monitor the single-cell correlates of behavioural activity in alert , freely moving animals ( O'Keefe and Nadel 1978 ; Olds et al . |