Example sentences of "but in [art] last [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the last twelve months the fury of the entire national had been aroused against him by an aged , exiled cleric for whom he had only contempt . |
| 2 | John Evans has covered cricket , football , rugby , tennis , swimming and many other sporting events in the past , but in the last five years has tended to concentrate on athletics . |
| 3 | Up to this point , Dowland 's piece has been almost exclusively homophonic , but in the last four beats of the third bar quoted above the voices each have slight differences in note-lengths and the placing of syllables . |
| 4 | The stroke works well in boats of this length but in the last six years the average length of kayak has dropped by almost a metre . |
| 5 | But in the last six months his father 's image had begun to intrude on his consciousness at odd moments , in the middle of a meeting , across a boardroom table , in a gesture , the droop of an eyelid , the tone of a voice , the line of a speaker 's mouth , the shape of fingers splayed to an open fire . |
| 6 | ‘ It was pretty close for a while , but in the last two sets I got run over by a Mack truck , ’ said Navratilova , who told the crowd that next year will probably be her last year of competing on the tour as a singles player . |
| 7 | You 've got your shop stewards , your activists , you , in my region , we 've got some great officers , the one that I have , Pat is great to work with , but in the last two years , I 've had to get hold of Pat more and more , myself . |
| 8 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |
| 9 | But in the last ten years , school history here has grown far more balanced . |
| 10 | But in the last ten years , Britain 's butter consumption has suddenly fallen by about half , and margarine has reached a pinnacle of acceptance . |
| 11 | Their quality and spacing is laid down in the Building Regulations but in the last ten years difficulties have arisen over corrosion , not only in those made of mild steel but also in galvanised ties where the zinc coating is defective . |
| 12 | But in the last ten years , United have thrived on the back of an ambitious youth policy and the curious managerial whims of Jim McLean , Dundee United created a tangerine dream for the '80s , building an impressive and free-flowing side around players like David Narey , Paul Hegarty and Paul Sturrock . |
| 13 | From the end of World War II to the early 1970s there was virtually full employment in developed countries , but in the last ten years the position has changed considerably as shown in fig. 1.11 . |
| 14 | Oxfords and brogue styles have been standard office issue for most of this century , but in the last 30 years the loafer has — thanks to its American and Italian perfectors — become a relaxed and stylish alternative to lace-ups , but there are purists who still harbour doubts about its suitability for the boardroom . |
| 15 | But in the last 15 months , the Association has made tremendous progress . ’ |
| 16 | But in the last three years , they have invested more than £500,000 in improving the 30-acre Sunningdale site , adding huge glasshouses and improving the show gardens . |
| 17 | But in the last three months the shares have enjoyed a good ride , jumping 40p to nearly 280p . |
| 18 | For , not only did the explicit recognition of forward movement in time and the rejection of the idea of endless recurrence originate with Zoroastrianism , but in the last twenty years or so Old Testament scholars have drawn attention to the similarity between some passages in the Old Testament and certain Mesopotamian texts . |
| 19 | The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land . |