Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark has arranged the events of the last days of Jesus into a one-week period . |
| 2 | As a result of the remits we have ensured that growth in net revenues , inevitably small given the recession of the last three years , has outpaced growth in costs , thus reversing the unacceptable trend seen prior to the programme . |
| 3 | Well , given the opposition in the last few matches they ve not done too bad . |
| 4 | This works out at 1,460 rupees a year for a rickshaw worth just 2,000 , so he could have bought ten rickshaws with the money he has given the owner over the last 15 years . |
| 5 | There 's scores of Central South folk heading for Wales this weekend to ride and run in one of the great adventure races … its the annual Horse v Man V Mountain Bike challenge … local people have won the race for the last five years … and you can if the winning run or ride continues when we bring you the highlights on Monday … |
| 6 | They were unable to shake off the Searle brothers after 1,000m and , rowing like men inspired , the Molesey pair overwhelmed the champions in the last 500m to finish some 2½ lengths ahead . |
| 7 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 8 | In the modern era , those three must be bracketed together : they , with Piquet — who , despite his achievements , is rarely mentioned in the same company — have totally dominated the sport for the last twenty years . |
| 9 | Friends said that the couple , from Maesteg , Mid Glamorgan , booked the trip at the last minute . |
| 10 | As part of a cost-cutting exercise , Sir John Egan , chief executive of BAA , the airports , property and retailing group , has slashed the workforce over the last two years by 20% , kissing goodbye to many of its white collar workers . |
| 11 | The separatists had won no seats at the last elections , in 1986 . |
| 12 | Of these 21 , or over half , had considered an MBO in the last 12 months , 15 of these actually started and the result to date is that nine were completed and three are still in progress . |
| 13 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 14 | Twice she 'd begun to tell Marlin about the meeting in and outside Bloomingdales ; twice she 'd re-channelled the conversation at the last moment , unable to face his benign condescension . |
| 15 | STRINDBERG 'S Miss Julie ranks among the most tiresome female characters to have trod the boards over the last 100 years or so . |
| 16 | He had grown a lot in the last few months . |
| 17 | Now I suppose that kind of model of what goes on in families has been disrupted a bit in the last few years because increasingly people have drawn attention to the way in which um often the person doing the abuse is the most powerful person within that family situation . |
| 18 | Parcelforce has made a loss over the last two years , despite strong efforts to turn the business around . |
| 19 | Well now , you 've had the Minutes of the last A G M meeting , that blue copy , and may I take it that er you accept those , and we can agree that they are accepted . |
| 20 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 21 | I knew I must talk with her again , but at that moment I was content to have used the words of the last of the great desert explorers . |
| 22 | There had been plans to introduce a separate currency , in the form of Soviet roubles stamped with a letter " U " ( Ukraine ) for purchasing basic goods , but it was claimed that the Soviet authorities had thwarted the plans at the last minute , forcing the reintroduction of coupons instead . |
| 23 | She 'd lived in Leningrad for ten years but she 'd had no work for the last two of them . |
| 24 | The scheme is available , free of charge , to employees under 65 who have not had a test in the last three years . |
| 25 | They are DEVOTED to each other — she 's seeing a toy boy and he 's had a mistress for the last fourteen years |
| 26 | I mean as usual with financial journalism , er i it 's somewhere in between , I mean endowments are having a bad run at the moment and that 's because they 've paid out such excellent bonuses in the past so if you 've had a maturity in the last four or five years , you 'll have seen how good they are . |
| 27 | we 're in a real mess on transport in this country — largely because we have n't had a policy for the last fourteen years . |
| 28 | you 've had a baby during the last 12 months or |
| 29 | Well , you know , he has n't bought a hou sold a house within the last ten years |
| 30 | The good response mirrored our picture of the typical diesel owner : 95 per cent have maximum no-claims bonus , and have not had an accident in the last five years . ’ |