Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the last [num] [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 | okay Why do you think that intra industry trade has risen , say over the last fifty years ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | To link Walker with skipper Tony Adams would also continue a partnership which has looked sound and secure in the last two England internationals . |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | If you remember at the last two sessions we 've talked about signs and symbols . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( He says : I 've seen four welders go in the last two years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE LAST SEVEN DAYS |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His English texts which almost certainly belong to the last ten years of his life relate to his role as a spiritual counsellor , and they are consistent with what we know of him — their strength lying not in systematic exposition but in his skill with language to illuminate the goals of spiritual life and so awake his readers to their reality . |
| 20 | The manager and the members of staff sit down and they agree over the last twelve months which of these bits of training have you had either on the job or as forward training they are ticked off , what do you need over the next six months , let's make a programme . |
| 21 | But as we leave the twentieth century and reflect on the last 100 years , we should expect more than a shallow gallery of designer fancies . |
| 22 | What with the new game of Guess the Election Date ( a thrill-packed pastime with no prizes ) and at long last the opportunity for change , we reflect on the last 12 years . |
| 23 | Now , is it any wonder why American businesses in Singapore have for the last 5 years registered a remarkable 25% average rate of return . |
| 24 | One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally ! |
| 25 | I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme . |
| 26 | We will continue to protect its value against price rises , as we have for the last 13 years . |
| 27 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 28 | But I want you to understand that , in making up my mind , I did not forget the country or the Commonwealth which , as Prince of Wales , I have for the last 23 years tried to serve . |
| 29 | I have for the last ten years been writing software using Clipper database and would like to improve the front end on some of the software . |
| 30 | Words that have in the last fifteen years or so , become synonymous with the name of Hood Yacht Systems . |