Example sentences of "the [noun] for the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a thank you to the 70 maintenance crew who have serviced the planes at the base for the last 22 years . |
| 2 | Her father has been an elder of the kirk for the last twenty years . |
| 3 | The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days . |
| 4 | She died in 1850 , having been allowed to leave the convent for the last few months of her life to be nursed by her sisters . |
| 5 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 6 | You will probably need to loosen the tension for the last two rows for a really misty effect . |
| 7 | The foursome , whose single End Of The Road has been at number one in the States for the last three weeks , were barred from entering New Orleans to do their live satellite link-up with the Beeb show . |
| 8 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |
| 9 | Radio-carbon or C14 dating was first applied in 1949 and together with other evidence now provides the chronology for the last 50,000 years and may be extended to 75,000 years . |
| 10 | On present policies , according to Jeremy Lawrence , we ‘ risk creating a pensioner underclass that the new private sources of income can not reach ’ ( New Society , 5 June 1987 ; the data for the last three paragraphs is drawn from the same source ) . |
| 11 | Erm but one of the things that we , that we will need to do is actually to review the overtime for the last three months to say okay , what 's it actually been spent on so that we can start to er make sure we 've identified the reasons for it . |
| 12 | The Manor ground has been home to the club for the last 67 years . |
| 13 | In the modern era , those three must be bracketed together : they , with Piquet — who , despite his achievements , is rarely mentioned in the same company — have totally dominated the sport for the last twenty years . |
| 14 | Actually I did operations between the village hall and the Crosskeys and Mr Martin is on the pub for the last sixteen years you see . |
| 15 | Actually I 'll be operating between the village hall and the Cross Keys and Mr Roger has the pub for the last sixteen years or so . |
| 16 | He has been the coach for the last five seasons . |
| 17 | He has been the coach for the last five seasons . |
| 18 | I 've been bowling in the nets for the last two weeks . |
| 19 | Different generations are well represented here , from the newest professional at the beginning of her career to two who have been in the business for the last forty years . |
| 20 | Raima UK is likely to be joint-owned by the two companies , and is said by Systemstar 's David Turley to be ‘ the inevitable consequence of our selling the product for the last five years ’ . |
| 21 | Woodacon has sponsored the team for the last four years and would like to take this opportunity to wish them all well for the future . |
| 22 | No more than 15 pairs of the bird are in the country , and the pair which has appeared at the site for the last 15 years is the only one in the south-west . |
| 23 | THE draw for the last sixteen of the FA Trophy yesterday threw up a battle of the Irish . |
| 24 | There 's scores of Central South folk heading for Wales this weekend to ride and run in one of the great adventure races … its the annual Horse v Man V Mountain Bike challenge … local people have won the race for the last five years … and you can if the winning run or ride continues when we bring you the highlights on Monday … |
| 25 | Actium , and Octavian 's victory in Egypt the following year , provided the occasion for the last great triumph in the Republican style . |
| 26 | The deal , said by sources to be ‘ very valuable to Pyramid , ’ will also allow ICL to OEM the company 's high-end MIServer ES machines — this follows on from an informal Pyramid-ICL sales teaming that has been operating in the UK for the last few months . |
| 27 | Everybody , unless they 've been had their head in the ground for the last thirteen years , know damn well that they 're not going to get housed off the needs register particularly quickly and they only go to people who are most unable to be housed by any other means are going to bother even to put their names on the needs register . |
| 28 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |
| 29 | ‘ Catriona , ’ said Rose-Marie , ‘ that 's your turkey cérise on the counter for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 30 | S A Wahid , the owner for the last four and a half years , has asked publishers to cancel all dues and catalogues . |