Example sentences of "a [noun] for the last [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been loafing a bit for the last few days . |
2 | They are DEVOTED to each other — she 's seeing a toy boy and he 's had a mistress for the last fourteen years |
3 | Mrs Simmons , a photographer for the last 15 years , also achieved one of two merits from the BIPP for a photograph of the Cornmill centre in Darlington . |
4 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
5 | A downstairs room , once his study , had been turned into a bedroom for the last few months , and his bed faced the french windows leading into the garden he loved so well . |
6 | Diana , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , hopes the boat will encourage more disabled people onto the water . |
7 | Diana Campbell , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , dreamt up the idea of a specially adapted dinghy sailing boat in the early seventies , and persuaded Roderick Macalpine-Downie to design it . |
8 | Joan 's husband suffers from motor neurone disease , is very weak and has been in a wheelchair for the last nine years , almost totally dependent on her for physical care . |
9 | As anyone who has n't been in a coma for the last ten years knows as much anyway , why bother ? |
10 | Giant London toy shop Hamleys has been getting more than 500 calls a day for the last two weeks from people asking about Thunderbird toys . |
11 | we 're in a real mess on transport in this country — largely because we have n't had a policy for the last fourteen years . |
12 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
13 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
14 | I 've had around two or three calls a week for the last few months . |
15 | I was frozen in a glacier for the last three million years . |
16 | The bulletin will include a summary for the last 24 hours , the worst level in the week and the latest 24 hour forecast . |
17 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
18 | Yeah , I know , she 's had a hell of a well for the last two or three years . |
19 | She 's very sorry you are n't well , but not surprised ; apparently she 's been urging you to take a holiday for the last two years . ’ |
20 | Strong words when you consider the market in cholesterol-lowering drugs has expanded by 34.4 per cent a year for the last five years . |
21 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
22 | , Henry ( 1858–1913 ) , socialist and journalist , was born 30 January 1858 in Hungerford , Berkshire , the son of a village blacksmith , who was an invalid for the last twenty years of his life , and his wife , the daughter of an agricultural labourer . |
23 | Police are giving the Devon-born long-distance walker an escort for the last 170 miles to Tangier , which she hopes to reach by next Wednesday . |