Example sentences of "has [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 2 | According to Prof Friel , who left home in 1968 to work in England , self-confidence among Derry people has only emerged in the last few years . |
| 3 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 4 | The use of oils in the kitchen has greatly increased in the last few decades , influenced by foreign travel and the subsequent awareness of international cuisine . |
| 5 | Merson has not started in the last six games and his dramatic goal will not change Graham 's thinking overnight . |
| 6 | ‘ This makes the church sensitive to the needs of those areas and that section of the population which has not benefited from the last 10 years of Conservative government , ’ he says , claiming that there is ‘ no automatic connection between wealth creation and a happy society ’ . |
| 7 | The party has scarcely advanced in the last 20 years , and its brave new policy of ‘ independence in Europe ’ has proved a fine slogan , but not a convincing one . |
| 8 | Which is hooey ; for when the thumping result is announced , the House burst into a blast of clapping , happy as a choral society that has just flown through the last tricky chorus . |
| 9 | The proportion of old people living in cold homes has hardly changed over the last 20 years despite improvements in living conditions , a report shows . |
| 10 | Anatoly Guljaev , managing director of Novosibirsk-based Utilex CT , says the economic vitality of the Novosibirsk region has noticeably declined in the last three years . |
| 11 | Such parties are becoming rare , and the winter population has probably declined during the last decade . |
| 12 | The rain has really struck in the last six weeks . |
| 13 | And the price of big houses like that has really plummeted in the last year . |
| 14 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 15 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 16 | Maureen has n't worked for the last few years and she 's ill herself , she 's got hepatitis B. |
| 17 | The population of Hanoi has almost doubled over the last 30 years , but inadequate planning and sanitation measures during the expansion of the city have resulted in chronic subsidence and drainage problems . |
| 18 | THE number of under-25s who have taken drugs in Britain has almost doubled in the last three years . |
| 19 | The study reveals that the numbers excluded for a fixed short period ( up to five days ) has almost doubled in the last three years . |
| 20 | The Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines , ZCCM , will be asked to pay for the environmental damage it has allegedly caused for the last 24 years , under the terms of the recently-approved Environment and Pollution Act . |
| 21 | Unemployment over the decade has been a disaster though the total has steadily fallen in the last two years . |
| 22 | Trooper Paul Martin from Durham City said : ‘ It was a bit harsh at 2am but we 've recovered and our drill has certainly improved in the last 24 hours . ’ |