Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
| 2 | 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the Indonesian capital Jakarta would host the 10th summit of the movement 's heads of state in 1992 , Nicaragua having withdrawn its application at the last moment . |
| 3 | Prehistoric archaeology has immensely broadened its approach over the last twenty years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Can I can I say before I do launch into the amendment to Mr that you have played your card at the last election and the Leicestershire public has resoundedly given their answer to your particular policies . |
| 6 | It had slipped my mind in the last awful seconds , but it all goes to show the value of a good education . |
| 7 | The pure terephthalic acid business , based at wilton , has significantly increased its profitability over the last three years through improved control of product quality . |
| 8 | It has been known since the 1970s that the vehicles which have dramatically increased our mobility in the last 50 years have also constituted a grave danger . |
| 9 | But he 's developed his game over the last couple of years very well . |
| 10 | He had deliberately withdrawn his insistence at the last minute , Belinda realised now , so that her decision came freely . |
| 11 | It was Diana who was held responsible for the steady stream of royal staff who had left their service during the last eighteen months and it was the Princess who was accused of forcing Charles to abandon his friends , change his eating habits and his wardrobe . |
| 12 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 13 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
| 14 | Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years . |
| 15 | Tony asked , suspecting that Freddie had lost his nerve at the last minute . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And Bourne was said to be ‘ a well-built and pleasant market town , which has doubled its population during the last forty years ’ . |
| 18 | All cities have changed their appearance in the last decade . |
| 19 | I know we have doubled our support in the last 2 weeks and that 's the way we are going . |