Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 2 | Notice how the sunset and the greeting are welded together in the last stanzas and are transformed into the endless journey and ‘ human sweetness ’ of the last three lines . |
| 3 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 4 | Resettlement outside the region should be considered only in the last resort . |
| 5 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 6 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
| 7 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 8 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 9 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 10 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 11 | ( Research and development split between the two lines — currently 50–50 — will soon tip the balance in favour of AViiON , since three years ' worth of products are expected to be squeezed out of the last round of investment in the proprietary line . ) |
| 12 | A thousand people have come here in the last year and another thousand are expected in the next year . |
| 13 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 14 | Prices have fallen steeply in the last year , and while this year 's drop will not be so dramatic , prices will continue to fall . |
| 15 | In England , lavender was grown commercially until the last war in Surrey and in Kent ; now it is only grown in Norfolk , near Norwich . |
| 16 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 17 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 18 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 19 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 20 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 21 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 22 | Research into the form and content of user interfaces for GIS has accelerated rapidly in the last couple of years . |
| 23 | On may 3 it had caused sufficient problems to be pushed home on the last train of the day from Wroxham . |
| 24 | The route in question was at Swanage and not at all difficult — getting its HVS grade for the seriousness of the climbing and not its difficulty and I 've certainly done harder in the last month . |
| 25 | Would it have anything to do with the warm weather , as the tank temperature has risen slightly over the last couple of weeks . |
| 26 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 27 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 28 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |
| 29 | Sociology has expanded enormously over the last decade in terms of the body of significant literature . |
| 30 | Company liquidations and personal sector mortgage defaults have both risen sharply over the last year and currently stand at record levels . |