Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] for the last [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
2 | ‘ I 've suspected for the last two weeks . |
3 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |
4 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
5 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |
6 | I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years . |
7 | Such a myth is integral to the salient cultural paradigm of our times and which we have possessed for the last three centuries . |
8 | In 1816 , the year Davy 's lamp was introduced , J. H. H. Holmes , a mining inspector , published a book containing ‘ accounts of the explosions from fire damp which have occurred for the last 20 years ; their causes and the means proposed for their remedy and for general improvements of the mining systems by new methods of ventilation . ’ |
9 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
10 | In spite of the occupations I have followed for the last thirty years , shreds of science remain . |
11 | Barn owl have bred for the last three years , and skylarks and meadow pipits have recolonised the wet meadows ; ten species of African migrant use the hedgerows and patches of gorse , bramble and nettles ; a colony of 20 pied flycatcher use the many nest boxes erected around the farm . |
12 | And you have resided for the last six months at the and at er ? |
13 | And you have resided for the last six months at the Railway Hotel and at er ? |
14 | SCOTLAND — SCOTLAND have qualified for the last five World Cup finals , but with only one point from two games they already face an uphill struggle to qualify for a sixth time . |