Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three novels by Mr Bill Spence , a sub-postmaster at Ampleforth College post office , have been accepted by publishers in the last three weeks . |
| 2 | Commercial director John Roberts , son of company chairman John C H Roberts , said : ‘ Despite the recession , we have expanded by 30pc over the last two years and we are confident of further expansion . ’ |
| 3 | MasterChef 1990 ( BBC Books , £7.99 ) contains all the recipes produced by contestants in the last MasterChef television series to fit that very bill . |
| 4 | the ‘ Holy Grail ’ , the cup or chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper , which is the subject of many medieval legends and romances . |
| 5 | UniSQL 's unified relational object-oriented DBMS UniSQL/X , which manages multimedia data and device support , has been used by MIT for the last year as an enabling technology . |
| 6 | Oh yeah yeah and they they keep er actually this album the reason it 's called I keep saying album we keep going back to the days of vinyl er the reason its called By Request over the last four of five years Telstar sent out a sort of feelers on different sleeves asking people if there were any songs that they might like to hear Foster and Allen sing . |
| 7 | Part-time workers who work only a very few hours do not benefit from many of the forms of employment protection introduced by legislation over the last decade or so , although those part-time workers who work at least half the usual hours are covered on some items . |
| 8 | It is good to report that branch membership has increased by 46% over the last four years . |
| 9 | The results show that , unlike most other areas in Britain , the number of ponds in Central Region has actually increased by 85% over the last century . |
| 10 | Though we maintain a relatively small profession in the UK , our numbers have increased by 28% over the last five years and the number of actuarial students is up by 45% . |
| 11 | He said spending on the service had increased by 63pc over the last three years . |
| 12 | The total demand for water has increased by 70% over the last 30 years . |
| 13 | He said spending had increased by 43pc over the last 13 years . |
| 14 | The statistics issued by ICAO over the last three decades show beyond any doubt that , despite a vast increase in the number of people taking to the air each year , the likelihood of any public transport passenger being killed diminishes . |
| 15 | The figures ' significance may , of course , be challenged on the grounds that the number of turns taken by Anderson in the last six scenes , and the length of those turns , is considerably smaller than in the earlier scenes , and we would therefore expect to see fewer performance errors . |
| 16 | Any notice direction or communication given hereunder by one party to the other if sent by post to the last known place of business of the other party shall be deemed to have been served on the date when in the ordinary course of post it would have been delivered to the other party . |
| 17 | Some of us have only got to look back to what was achieved by people during the last war . |
| 18 | This problem , associated with attempts to ascribe probabilities to scientific laws and theories in the light of given evidence , has given rise to a detailed technical research programme that has been tenaciously pursued and developed by inductivists over the last few decades . |
| 19 | This attitude is behind the policy of skimping on women and children which has kept the family allowance or child benefit frozen ( its real value has fallen by 18% in the last ten years ) . |
| 20 | In this latter case the possible danger is compounded by considerations of the last chapter . |
| 21 | The rule , introduced for this season , states players must be registered by midday on the last working day before a game . |
| 22 | The relationship between the judiciary and the Government has been changed by developments over the last twenty years and especially over the last five years or so . |
| 23 | The technology for a reed bed was pioneered in Germany 20 years ago , and has been perfected by ICI over the last two years . |
| 24 | ‘ Beings such as Medoc and the old Erl-King , although the Erl-King was vanquished by Cormac in the last century . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm choosing to assume completely my responsibility , ’ declared Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti , after delivering a 20-page document , detailing bribes paid by Olivetti over the last 15 years as political favours to the Mani Pulite — Clean Hands — investigating judges in Milan on Sunday . |
| 26 | They were formed at the same time as the Quakers , actually , in sixteen fifty-two , and the main erm belief of the group was that John Reeve and his cousin Ludowick Muddleton were the two prophets who 'd been chosen by God as the last witnesses in the Book of Revelation . |