Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] for the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That argument has been very forceful in some countries for the last three or four decades at least . |
| 2 | And I 'll get my accountant to chase your vendor 's elusive accountant and get some figures for the last few months . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're currently assisting with an inquiry that 's been giving the police quite a few headaches for the last few months . ’ |
| 4 | Sergeant Nafi is a Turkish Cypriot policeman Who has accompanied these patrols for the last fourteen years . |
| 5 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 6 | MINERS at Monktonhall colliery have not been paid any wages for the last seven weeks in an effort to ease the venture 's cash-flow problems , it was revealed last night . |
| 7 | Examples of this sort are in direct contrast to what has been , in effect , the subconscious attitude of most geologists for the last hundred or more years . |