Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the last [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
2 | Well I thought well I 'll , just think about what I want with the last five pounds . |
3 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
4 | ‘ Have you noticed any change in your brother recently — say in the last few months ? |
5 | okay Why do you think that intra industry trade has risen , say over the last fifty years ? |
6 | But can you just give me , sort of , a brief overview of what 's happened to the composition of world trade right , say over the last hundred years or so . |
7 | Staff there have seen over 1,000 jobs dissapear during the last 3 years , but with millions of pounds worth of orders coming their way , tonight they 're in a celebratory mood . |
8 | Is the Minister aware that eight times as many houses were built under the previous Labour Government than those doctored figures show for the last financial year ? |
9 | Council records show in the last 18 months a total of 44 businesses have stopped trading in Darlington including Miniprint , Initial Garments and Stenga Engineering . |
10 | Well done Matt , well done , better doing it now then wait until the last bloody minute when we 're outside the school |
11 | You can also use your Card to call up the balance , print-out or order a statement , or look at the last few transactions on your account at one or more of the new AutoBanking machines we are installing up and down the country to help you . |
12 | To link Walker with skipper Tony Adams would also continue a partnership which has looked sound and secure in the last two England internationals . |
13 | Mr Smith 's warning coincided with a call by Ken Livingstone , the Labour MP for Brent East , who said on London Weekend Television 's The Walden Interview : ‘ You can be miles ahead in the polls , but when you get to the last three weeks , people think , ‘ Can I afford a Labour government ? ’ |
14 | Quoted errors refer to the last significant digit ; the r.m.s. phase residual for the least-squares fit was 15μs . |
15 | well you know over the last few weeks we know that er |
16 | I 'm thinking of buying myself some ice skates , I 've been promising myself those , just , you know over the last few years when we have had a , just a bit , mind you there was one year about six years ago were n't it , where we were |
17 | If you remember at the last two sessions we 've talked about signs and symbols . |
18 | Er , yes , this is a follow up erm , if you remember at the last full council meeting , we recorded er proceedings for the er British Corpus , is it , Town Clerk ? |
19 | I think companies well in fact B and Q erm recently announced that er not recently I mean in the last eighteen months they 've started to have their er stores erm |
20 | And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked . |
21 | I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do . |
22 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
23 | United have now taken just three points from a possible 12 and manager Alex Ferguson 's only consolation is that the defeat of rivals Aston Villa at Carrow Road means it is now Norwich who hold a twopoint advantage over them as they go into the last seven games . |
24 | ( He says : I 've seen four welders go in the last two years . |
25 | And only a super display from keeper David James kept the scoreline down as the Gunners romped to their third Anfield win in the last five seasons . |
26 | Finally , proceed in the last few minutes to the last two of the seven stages — IL and E. |
27 | Before reading further , think about the last few chapters and decide what you expect their empirical studies have found . |
28 | WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE LAST SEVEN DAYS |
29 | They date from the last ten years when an interest in colour , triggered by a visit to Egypt in 1982 , assumed a dominant position in her work . |
30 | I think over the last few months , there 's been so much killing that maybe for me , that was the the watershed . |