Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |
| 2 | DEC UK 's workstation product manager , Tom Yeates , says sales of VAXstations running VMS exceeded targets by two and a half times over the last quarter , something it attributes to increased confidence in VMS due to the launch of the Alpha chip . |
| 3 | These coffins , England 's response in lead to the Egyptian mummy case , became fashionable in the fifteenth century and were still to be seen in some areas in the last decade of the seventeenth century , though they were beginning to decline in popularity during the 1660s and 1670s . |
| 4 | The World Council Churches on this occasion reviewed the work accomplished during the seven and a half years since the last assembly in Vancouver in Canada . |
| 5 | We had embarked two such affairs in the last year ; the most memorable being an English lawyer who had arrived with his French mistress , but only after telling his wife that he was attending a legal conference in Brussels and , to preserve the lie , he had been forced to hide every inch of his pallid skin in case a sun-tan betrayed him . |
| 6 | I am writing these lines on the last day of 1986 , the deadline I set myself for reaching the Great Glen with my pen . |
| 7 | You know we 're the ones accused of doing these things at the last moment . |
| 8 | How often have you done these things in the last week , month or year ? |
| 9 | We return to these uses in the last part of this chapter , when we look in detail at roles for video in the lesson . |
| 10 | Our tour manager was a quietly efficient , handsome lady , whose calm suggested those intrepid women who travelled these regions in the last century , and the lecturer was a young woman professor from Manchester University , who turned out to be an authority on mummification . |
| 11 | That , that they have create these ills in the last decade through this , this increase in indirect taxation . |
| 12 | er but erm that kind of thing where you can sort of scale the responses in some way or say how many times a week or say how many times in the last year or how many times since Christmas or something erm fine yeah you can do , you can do stats on that , you can hopefully find P less than point O five etcetera etcetera between the different groups |
| 13 | In the latter years of the last century and until the first world war , American massemployment industry and the less agreeable urban occupations drew their workforce extensively from eastern Europe as well as from the labour surplus of American farms . |
| 14 | On the housing front , the gap between the number of owner-occupiers has increased in all regions over the last decade , averaging at 68pc . |
| 15 | They had ‘ disavowed any intention , for the present , of acting in opposition to the Labour movement in the country , and certainly their action in many constituencies during the last election gives earnest of their disavowal . ’ |
| 16 | Given this framework and governing principles , the civil service has operated without many upheavals over the last century . |
| 17 | I think we have probably been trying to reach each other several times in the last week or two unsuccessfully . |
| 18 | Travelling to several countries over the last year , has brought it home to me how disastrous are the effects , worldwide , of the virus causing AIDS . |
| 19 | Personally , I 'd not have made any heavyweight preparations but avoided giving any clues until the last moment . |
| 20 | In this sense we want to tie the structural changes in political economy that have marked most nations in the last decade and have commonly had their most profound consequences in cities , to attempts to demarcate a space that corresponds to the political , social and academic construction of a traumatised inner city . |
| 21 | One possible explanation stems from the impact of the fall in equity prices on both stocks in the last quarter of 1987 . |
| 22 | Most accidents in the last year occurred at private or er family parties as opposed to larger displays . |
| 23 | ‘ These were issued to spies on both sides during the last war , for use if they were interrogated . ’ |
| 24 | Like most women in the last week of pregnancy I am not blooming . |