Example sentences of "which [verb] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forthcoming work will aim to remove the layer of dirt which has accumulated over the last thirty years not surprisingly , since the church is located in one of the most polluted parts of Florence . |
| 2 | The Barcelona festival is the most enjoyable , experimental stop on what Gibson jokingly calls the ‘ virtual rubber chicken circuit ’ , a global network of theoretical conferences , trade fairs and arty think tanks which has developed over the last two years to tap the millennial fascination with virtual reality . |
| 3 | The picture which has emerged over the last five or six years it is very different than the one painted above . |
| 4 | In spite of the claims of the success of the Thatcher years , Mr Lang will emphasise the need for Scotland to fill that critical gap which has emerged over the last 13 years . |
| 5 | They 're all members of the British Nuclear Test Veteran Association which has campaigned for the last ten years to get recognition for its members , who feel they were used as human guinea pigs . |
| 6 | Permanent plants include the architectural Cordyline australis , and the winter flowering cherry Prunus subhirtella " Autumnalis " , which has flowered for the last two years . |
| 7 | It 's the latest twist in the lengthy club versus country row which has simmered for the last two seasons . |
| 8 | Brightreason will now have 20 per cent of the booming pizza market , which has doubled over the last eight years . |
| 9 | In particular the area 's unemployment rate which has doubled in the last 18 months . |
| 10 | His argument will pivot on the spiralling bill for legal aid , which has doubled in the last five years , reaching £83 million last year . |
| 11 | The Free Churches have made much use of the explosion of hymn writing which has occurred during the last thirty years and which crosses the boundaries of all denominations . |
| 12 | Mr Dryfe said : ‘ The violence which has occurred during the last several weeks outside the factory gates and the damage done to the property of several of our employees is deplorable . |
| 13 | The explosion of knowledge , skills and ideas , which has occurred in the last half century makes any mapping to some extent arbitrary . |
| 14 | We certainly can not bank on the 49 per cent increase in the size of the Bar which has occurred in the last 10 years . |
| 15 | Thus the atoll , which had existed in the last interglacial , reformed in the Post-glacial period ( Fig. 8.35C ) . |
| 16 | The 66-year-old President , an agricultural economist by training , was generally regarded as a more approachable and pragmatic politician than his predecessor , and therefore better equipped to manage the process of political liberalization which had begun in the last months of Chiang 's presidency . |
| 17 | The local press , which had flourished during the last years of colonial rule , had been allowed to die . |
| 18 | Everything has obviously been well prepared both technically and musically ( not the remotest suspicion of a studio run-through ) , and the orchestra sound really fired up , which is more than one can say about a disturbingly large number of recordings which have emerged over the last few years ! |
| 19 | Social differentials in fertility which have emerged in the last century have powerful implications for population growth , social welfare , and political power . |
| 20 | Nor can it cope with the more general interdisciplinary and modular patterns which have emerged in the last two decades ; and it is university-biased in its assumption that the basic academic unit is the subject-department , whereas composite departments offering broader programmes of study are common in the polytechnics and colleges . |
| 21 | My destinations have all been identified by linguists , in papers which have appeared in the last five years or so , as well worth a visit , and in each case I have found the excursion worthwhile . |
| 22 | As far as quality assurance is concerned , the new paper describes how mechanisms have evolved to meet the various demands which have arisen over the last five years — such as the National Certificate , the new Advanced Courses and , most recently , Scottish Vocational Qualifications . |
| 23 | Rising costs , a more sophisticated travelling public and much greater competition from numerous holiday attractions , which have developed within the last 10 years , have made it virtually impossible to run two commercial railways in such close proximity . |
| 24 | In 1816 , the year Davy 's lamp was introduced , J. H. H. Holmes , a mining inspector , published a book containing ‘ accounts of the explosions from fire damp which have occurred for the last 20 years ; their causes and the means proposed for their remedy and for general improvements of the mining systems by new methods of ventilation . ’ |
| 25 | Provided the seals have remained intact and the air is uncontaminated , analysis of the samples is expected to give a unique insight into the composition of the atmosphere at that time , and consequently provide an indication of changes which have occurred in the last three centuries , the period of worldwide industrialization and the extensive burning of fossil fuels . |
| 26 | Redcar 's City Challenge co-ordinator Dave Bottomley said : ‘ We started out on a confident basis with well-prepared plans which have resulted from the last five years of work under the Regeneration of Redcar banner . |