Example sentences of "[coord] in the last [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The degree of economic specialization might vary from one centre to another , and in the last resort it is not always easy to define what was a town . |
| 2 | He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight . |
| 3 | She marries him , and in the last chapter we learn that his sight is partially restored . |
| 4 | Love and death have always been themes exciting the imagination of poets ; but in the last century they figured in works of art and literature to an extent that was almost obsessional . |
| 5 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 6 | But in the last year we 've taken some very bold steps . |
| 7 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
| 8 | The Party Secretary , like a British prime minister , could have great influence and authority , but in the last resort he was essentially primus inter pares — first among equals — and had to carry his colleagues with him . |
| 9 | It is they who govern , but in the last analysis it is the people who rule themselves . |
| 10 | But in the last round she had two fences down on the most difficult course , with Mandevilles Supreme , the mount of William Funnell , another of the finalists . |
| 11 | You lost a fair amount of weight to begin with but in the last week you have only dropped 1 lb ( 0.4 kg ) and you are disappointed with progress . |
| 12 | When Jean 's turn came for her third , she fully expected it to be as straightforward as Billy and Berta , but in the last week she got a lot of bleeding . |