Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This field either contains the PSN of the last entry in this bundle assigned on that basis ( restricting the range of the search ) or contains a negative value indicating that there are no more entries of the kind in this bundle .
2 Poor , silly Ma Norris , who had never been quite right since her three sons were killed on the Somme in the last war .
3 Sun 's German users in particular are said to favour the Motif option , and IXI has been out testing the waters on both sides of the Atlantic over the last couple of weeks .
4 Renault has played an important role in this change , with the popularity of Renault diesel engines reflected in the way diesel versions accounted for 16% of all Clio sales in the UK during the last quarter of 1992 .
5 This three year study will explore empirically and theoretically the changing structure and significance of the linkages between corporate R&D and academic research in the UK over the last decade .
6 They discovered the object with the UK 's 4.2m William Herchel telescope ( WHT ) on La Palma in The Canaries on the last night of a 40-night observing campaign , studying very faint sources detected by the IRAS infrared astronomical satellite with optical ground-based telescopes .
7 That element of realism has been evident in the papers issued by the APB over the last year , in particular those on expanding the auditors ' report and going concern , but nowhere is it more clearly shown than in the recently published The Future Development of Auditing ( see also this issue , pp 10 and 88 ) .
8 Of the 7,098 varieties of apples grown in the USA in the last century , all but 6,121 have disappeared .
9 Looking ahead to 1991 , the report concluded that a world recession was unlikely , adding , however , that " there is , as yet , no evidence that the slowdown in economic growth in the major industrial countries — including a fall in output in France , the United Kingdom and the USA in the last quarter of [ 1990 ] — has run its course " .
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