Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 2 | Discovered and excavated in the last sixty years , they have often been described . |
| 3 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 4 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
| 5 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 6 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 7 | IT is a great privilege and pleasure for me to honour my old friend and colleague John Gillam , with whom I have worked and argued over the last thirty years . |
| 8 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
| 9 | This part of the country is extraordinarily rich in small sects that grew up and flourished in the last two or three centuries . |
| 10 | The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision . |
| 11 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 12 | To link Walker with skipper Tony Adams would also continue a partnership which has looked sound and secure in the last two England internationals . |
| 13 | ‘ I certainly felt badly in need of a rest , having trained and played for the last two to three years virtually without a break . |
| 14 | These issues have been well raised and aired over the last few months I would like to now raise another issue that I do n't think has been publicized enough that is the issue of under-provision in old age . |
| 15 | First discovered in 1695 , the pavement has been repeatedly buried and re-exposed over the last three centuries . |
| 16 | Sister was then transferred to Wythenshawe , and worked for the last 13 years on the chaplaincy team of Wythenshawe Hospital . |
| 17 | The excavations , a joint venture between British and Italian authorities ( Provincia d'Isernia ) and directed for the last twelve years by the School 's director , Dr Richard Hodges , have shown that for a brief period in the early ninth century San Vincenzo was an exceptional place with far-flung connections . |
| 18 | Loss of data was therefore small , and analyses with the last available assessment for each subject did not indicate that any bias had been introduced . |
| 19 | There are a number of grammatical architectures that have been proposed and implemented during the last 30 years . |
| 20 | But as we leave the twentieth century and reflect on the last 100 years , we should expect more than a shallow gallery of designer fancies . |
| 21 | The pit is now a museum where visitors can go underground and discover how miners have worked and lived over the last 200 years . |
| 22 | The programs we use to produce it have been developed and improved over the last few years . |