Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the last " in BNC.

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1 The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century .
2 The Tour has been won twice on the last stage .
3 Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate .
4 A spokesman for the Northern Constabulary at Inverness denied the accusations of harassment but confirmed that the site had been visited twice in the last few days and that several people had been charged .
5 A party from the Ordnance Survey left after having been stationed here for the last six months .
6 The band had been thrown together at the last moment ; and none of the musicians looked or sounded as if he was enjoying the experience .
7 Hence the keen interest in this result and the fierceness of the battle which has been fought here over the last few weeks .
8 The gallery now manages its own building ; the problem of the site next door was resolved after over fifty years , and I genuinely believe that the gallery floor in the Sainsbury Wing built on that site provides the best space for Old Master paintings to have been created anywhere in the last forty or fifty years .
9 Corbett reckoned horses had been stabled there within the last two or three months .
10 The Scottish women 's teams have been held annually on the last weekend in February since before the war , but some five years ago the male members of the SBU council decided this was unfair and established the national men 's teams held in Perth on Sunday .
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