Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the last [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
2 | I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection . |
3 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
4 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
5 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
6 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
7 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
8 | Attempting to duck the consequences of hard decisions by leaving them to the last possible minute or by creating distance through solely informing parents by letter places the initiative in the hands of others . |