Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the last [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 2 | ‘ The greatest mistake any adversary could make would be to doubt America 's resolve during this period of transition , ’ Clinton said in a statement outside the Arkansas governor 's mansion in Little Rock , where he has lived for 12 of the last 14 years . |
| 3 | STEFFI GRAF shook off a sluggish start against Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere by winning 12 of the last 13 games to roar into the U.S. Open final at Flushing Meadow . |
| 4 | As an eminent American economist once remarked , ‘ The Stock Market has anticipated 10 out of the last 3 recessions and 12 of the last 3 recoveries ! ’ |
| 5 | Ernst and Young has cut its annual graduate recruitment by 110 to 540 over the last two years but generally the big firms , some with workforces of over 7,000 , have been slow to react to the downturn . |
| 6 | In some countries , at certain times , the consensus has been anti-inflationary : this has generally been the case in Germany , although the ‘ independent ’ Bundesbank has not prevented inflation being above 5% in eight of the last 20 years , quite apart from the monetary difficulties of German Monetary Union . |
| 7 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 8 | However , the observed precession is 43.11 ( 45 ) arcsec larger ; this notation means 43.11 arcsec with an error of 45 in the last two digits , i.e. an error of ± 0.45 arcsec . |
| 9 | Both the two largest parties suffered losses ; Fianna Fáil , the major party in the ruling coalition , won 358 seats ( 437 in the last local elections in 1985 ) and lost control of the city and county councils in Dublin . |
| 10 | 7 From the last two sets find the H.C.F. of 24 and 30 . |
| 11 | Played in three of the last four games in fact . |
| 12 | Clough , leading scorer at Forest for three of the last four seasons , has been wanted by a number of top clubs since his dad brought him out of local Sunday League football to Forest . |
| 13 | Incidents have been reported in the Caribbean in three of the last four years . |
| 14 | Given that this competition — which Forest have monopolised in the last four years after playing in three of the last four finals , winning two of them — offered Brian Clough 's only route to Europe next year they appeared unusually indifferent . |
| 15 | I required to make three of the last four tricks in the situation shown below , knowing that both opponents also held only Spades and Diamonds at this stage : |
| 16 | Adams benefited from the tailenders ' intention to belt him out of the ground , taking three of the last five wickets for final figures of four for 43 from 21.4 overs . |
| 17 | Three of the last seven concerts of 1985 were described as : ‘ Excellent ’ and one was ‘ Quite good — sold three T-shirts ! ’ |
| 18 | The workforce has been slashed by over 200,000 in the last five years . |
| 19 | As the data from a statistically more developed country in Table 2 demonstrate , though there were drastic changes in the level of infant mortality which decreased by two thirds during the last three decades , the relationship between maternal age and infant mortality , as shown by the quadrennial data , remained basically the same . |
| 20 | Needing 76 off the last 20 overs and with five wickets in hand they were 35 short with six overs remaining when torrential rain called a halt . |
| 21 | Needing 76 off the last 20 overs and with five wickets in hand they were 35 short with six overs remaining when torrential rain called a halt . |
| 22 | Welfare fraud squads have increased for example from 800 to 1,500 in the last few years , and in 1983 the regional fraud teams ( 10 groups of 9 ) were developed , saving , it was argued in 1987 , 55 million . |
| 23 | It 's bottomed out now , but it 's fallen by about fifty or sixty in the last eight months . |
| 24 | That still puts the brakes on pretty hard does n't it , if you stick it in a figure less than thirty one thousand in the last five years . |
| 25 | one hundred and twenty thousand in the last two years and what we 're doing is putting some money into some sta stabilise the service . |
| 26 | DEMAND for water in Britain has increased by two thirds in the last 30 years . |
| 27 | But Turkey only lost 1–0 on the last two occasions and coach Sepp Piontek says : ‘ We are getting closer all the time . |
| 28 | West Indies needed eight from the last five overs with two wickets left , to match the home side 's 140 for nine , but were denied by Hansie Cronje and Meyrick Pringle . |
| 29 | According to a report published on Dec. 5 by the human rights organization Amnesty International , more than 5,000 people had been executed in Iran in the past three years , including some 2,500 during the last six months of 1988 coinciding with a crackdown on left-wing dissidents [ see pp. 36630-31 ] . |
| 30 | For the Socialists , in power for ten of the last 12 years , it was their worst general election defeat since 1968 . |