Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’
2 Cases of salmonella food poisoning in Britain have trebled in the last three years and are at an all-time high , according to government statistics .
3 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 .
4 Two million have enrolled in the last twenty one years .
5 Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years .
6 ‘ We have reviewed the results and the fact is we lost as many as we have won over the last two seasons , ’ said Bates .
7 Its peculiar feature is that the main raw material , pig bristle , is bought from a monopoly supplier , China , and it is imports of Chinese paint brushes that have quadrupled within the last three years .
8 We have noticed over the last few months at Cadogan Travel seem to be noticeably more expensive than the other travel agents used by Christian Aid .
9 We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years .
10 I have searched through the last Conservative party manifesto .
11 I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years .
12 Mrs Thatcher , who returned from the United States last night , said : ‘ Everything we have done in the last 13 years will be conserved and built on into the future .
13 Certainly , we have seen over the last seven years in Britain new educational legislation of a kind which is having a profound influence upon practice in education departments and schools — for better or for worse .
14 Here 's the list I 've made so far — all the children I have seen in the last three weeks .
15 Now try to change the following to improper fractions : unc As you have seen in the last few questions , improper fractions Numerator are " top heavy " .
16 The aim of this research is to investigate the role of money income targets for a small open economy such as the UK , and their relationship with policies designed to avoid fluctuations in the exchange rate of the magnitude we have seen in the last few years .
17 How much money has been spent and how many animals have suffered during the last eight years ?
18 But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games .
19 ‘ This report surely demands a rethink by both the Government and the senior management of BR of the policies that they have adopted over the last 10 years . ’
20 We have Adopted in the last few years , the Modular Education System .
21 Requests to Darlington council for help with housing have tripled in the last three years , according to Labour .
22 It is merely the application of some basic rules of human behaviour that researchers have uncovered over the last hundred years or so .
23 Such a myth is integral to the salient cultural paradigm of our times and which we have possessed for the last three centuries .
24 Identify the contribution to profit you have made in the last four weeks .
25 I mean , now I 've got several hundred pounds resting on it if I have to walk in the last few miles I will , but er pride I 'm sure I 'll keep going .
26 Sadly the very dry weather we have had over the last two summers has meant that even young bulbs have not been able to bulk up their energy supplies and so the following year they have been unable to produce flowers .
27 In replying to the accusations , Mr Toshack pointed out that Bilbao 's attempts to culture a romantic image as the sole defenders of Basque traditions were at odds with £3.75 million invested in signings and more managers in 12 months than Real Sociedad have had in the last eight years .
28 Unless a turnover system were to be introduced , such as the optional arrangements in Germany , the royalty would only operate in relation to works which are still in copyright works of art either produced by living artists or those who have died within the last fifty years .
29 Sixteen people have died within the last two years .
30 Many important changes in the structure of the economy have occurred over the last twenty years .
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