Example sentences of "[vb pp] its [noun sg] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.

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1 Indonesia was elected to chair the NAM for the period from 1992 to 1995 , and it was announced on Sept. 22 that the Indonesian capital Jakarta would host the 10th summit of the movement 's heads of state in 1992 , Nicaragua having withdrawn its application at the last moment .
2 Prehistoric archaeology has immensely broadened its approach over the last twenty years .
3 Though the single-break flat-lidded coffin had made its entrance in the last quarter of the sixteenth century — the lead shell of Lady Elizabeth Howard ( d.1591 ) with appliqué lettering at Withyham , Sussex , is of this type , as is the pictorial representation of Sir Henry Unton 's 1596 coffin in the Unton portrait at the National Portrait Gallery , as well as a small sculptural representation of a coffin on the 1615 mural monument to Susan Kinges at Morston , Norfolk — the single-break gable-lidded shell seems to have been more popular .
4 The pure terephthalic acid business , based at wilton , has significantly increased its profitability over the last three years through improved control of product quality .
5 Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years .
6 One turns out to be the Greek Revival Sheriff Courthouse ( 1841 ) in the centre of Glasgow , which is an unprecedented gesture on the part of this Edinburgh-based institution towards is traditional rival , Glasgow , the rough-tough merchant city which has so improved its image over the last ten years through an enlightened cultural policy .
7 And Bourne was said to be ‘ a well-built and pleasant market town , which has doubled its population during the last forty years ’ .
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