Example sentences of "one [prep] the last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Darlington must be one of the last towns of its size to be bringing in pedestrianisation , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ One of the last bastions of single-pilot public transport flying ’ — Ronald Liddiard recalls 800 happy hours logged in Aurigny 's Trislanders around the Channel Islands |
| 3 | This is one of the last bastions of single-pilot public transport flying . |
| 4 | The Tame Valley Canal was one of the last canals to be built , running eastwards across the West Midlands from Tame Valley Junction on the Walsall Canal to Salford Junction on the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal ( Oct 84 guide ) at the head of the Grand Union Canal . |
| 5 | In the long term , the Prado has also been promised the building now occupied by the Army Museum — one of the last remnants of the 17th-century Palace of El Buen Retiro , whose artist in residence , fittingly enough , was Velazquez . |
| 6 | But the building boys managed to draw 2:2 in reply on April 21 doing an Oldham and redeeming themselves in one of the last games of the season . |
| 7 | So naturally I had to get it with and it was heavier th I do n't know how much it weighed , I I I got it by the way , in my barn in farm in Indiana , one of the last relics of Brothers . |
| 8 | This may be one of the last chances for admirers of 32-year-old Miss Brind to see her dance , as she has a burgeoning acting career . |
| 9 | Univel Inc said its price cuts last week ( see front page ) removed one of the last barriers to the rapid adoption of Unix-on-Intel as a client/server solution . |
| 10 | One of the last actions of the outgoing Congress ( I ) government was to release Mann on Dec. 2 and to drop all conspiracy charges against him . |
| 11 | But in the depth of Winter say , er from November up to after Christmas , there were very very few things you could notice and erm goodness knows how many times I fell back on he was one of the last persons to be churning with horsepower . |
| 12 | It is now revealed to be Blue period — but one of the last paintings of this series . |
| 13 | The TV producer led them to one of the last suites on the left and a young man in pullover and jeans swung round on his chair . |
| 14 | ‘ Another large foreign entry can be expected again as it will be one of the last competitions before the Barcelona Olympics , ’ explained Michael Tucker . |
| 15 | THE latest steam locomotive to receive attention from the Midland Railway Centre 's Locomotive Restoration Workshops is 73129 , which was one of the last engines to be constructed by the Derby Locomotive Works in 1956 . |
| 16 | I always thought I got cast in The Graduate because I was one of the last ones to be seen . |
| 17 | We 're the last , one of the last ones in our road ! |
| 18 | The Toyota Bramham International Three Day event will be one of the last outings for Britain 's top riders before the Olympic Games . |
| 19 | This consists of small beads ( a litre has an R.R.P. of £13.95 — 21 and 51 also available ) Which must be washed ( when they may generate some heat ) then placed in one of the last sections of the filter . |
| 20 | Unification if it happens , is likely to be a slow process , but the fact that the visit took place at all is a dramatic break through on one of the last frontiers of the cold war . |
| 21 | But such worries are nothing compared to the dilemma facing the Kremlin as the waves of perestroika lap at one of the last fortresses of communist orthodoxy . |
| 22 | One of the last acts of the short-lived vacillating Monis government was to draft a new bill recognising both the Marne and the Aube , but as two distinct districts . |
| 23 | One of the last acts of Carcani 's government was the announcement on Feb. 20 that it was acceding to the students ' demand to strip Hoxha 's name from Tirana University . |
| 24 | One of the last acts of the Directorate of Government Protection before it was abolished [ see above ] was to take control of the Izvestiya publishing house on Oct. 27 . |
| 25 | The new vessel was one of the last ships to be built at Philips Shipyard , Dartmouth and had been launched on 14th February , 1962 by Lady Crombie , wife of the Chairman of the Board . |
| 26 | The Bikin valley area is one of the last strongholds of the Siberian tiger , of which 350 are said to survive in the wild . |
| 27 | The area , in the north of the province , is one of the last strongholds of the grizzly bear and is also home to wolves , bald eagles and wild salmon . |
| 28 | Outlines of hut circles , still visible , suggest there was a permanent Brigante settlement here , supposedly one of the last strongholds against the Romans . |
| 29 | It was his decision , for example , to shift a military pay day to 29 September , one of the last days of fiscal 1989 , from 1 October , the beginning of fiscal 1990 . |
| 30 | This was one of the last Kindertransporte from Poland . |