Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the last [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
| 2 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
| 3 | 1990-91commitments in support of macroeconomic and structural policies totalled only SDR5,600 million , two-thirds of which had been committed in the last four months to five countries — Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland and Romania . |
| 4 | Despite the brisk sales reported in the last few days before Christmas , December saw a small decline in retail trade compared with the previous year , according to the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , said on Tuesday that many retailers had reported a disappointing Christmas , although the results were an improvement on recent months and sales in January were expected to be up on a year ago . |
| 5 | ‘ I have obtained the police accident reports for each junction that you will drive through and have counted all accidents that have been reported in the last three years on any part of the junction . |
| 6 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |
| 7 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 8 | 30 per cent of South Africa 's native woodlands have been felled in the last 15-20 years . |
| 9 | In vain has Adrienne written asking for news from the North-East to be included in the last two issues : for we had nothing to report beyond our puny struggles against the mighty Aerobics phenomenon . |
| 10 | You have at your disposal all the information on Palatine Ales contained in the last two cases , together with the earlier material on Acorn Hotels Ltd and Cheshire Restaurants Ltd . |
| 11 | We have n't gone , in physics , seriously into trying to understand the biological aspects , but then you see biology is becoming dominated in the last ten years by the understanding of basic biochemistry of cells . |
| 12 | Discussion of this aspect will be pursued in the last two sections of this chapter as already promised . |
| 13 | But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games . |
| 14 | The signs of crisis are already there with 10 goals conceded in the last five games . |
| 15 | The portrait of the study of social policy as presented in the last few paragraphs shows that it is a subject that draws upon a number of different academic disciplines . |
| 16 | Requests to Darlington council for help with housing have tripled in the last three years , according to Labour . |
| 17 | The vendor should try to seek agreement from the purchaser that the policies applied in the last audited accounts , will be applied to the completion accounts . |
| 18 | In my opinion , and for the reasons I have tried to formulate , such a refusal would not be consonant with relevant legal principles as they have developed and have been applied in the last 50 years . |
| 19 | The vendor will be required to warrant that no industrial action has been taken or threatened in the last few years . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher , who returned from the United States last night , said : ‘ Everything we have done in the last 13 years will be conserved and built on into the future . |
| 21 | List in column 1 everything you 've done in the last three days . |
| 22 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 23 | KAILZEE GARDENS , Nr Peebles , Scotland Spring , summer and autumn are well represented in the gardens which have been re-created in the last 20 years . |
| 24 | Open-field farming , with few or no hedges must have produced a very bare landscape , totally lacking in visual interest which the great modern prairie farms of East Anglia have actually re-created in the last few decades . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ We have had one man killed and six badly injured in the last few days . |
| 26 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 27 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 28 | Just as the architecture built in the last thirty years in East and West Berlin reflects the different societies , so will what is to be built , play a part in determining the future of the united city . |
| 29 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 30 | How many gigs have you missed in the last few months ? ’ |