Example sentences of "and [prep] the last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stool was brought out , and as the last echoes of twelve faded in the warm night air a dark-haired young man with flashing black eyes came and stood alone in the dim light . |
| 2 | Net immigration during the 1880s accounted for only about 17,000 of the total increase of about 49,000 , and during the last decade of the century all the net gain of about 24,000 people was accounted for by natural growth . |
| 3 | He sailed for Algiers in March 1943 and during the last days of the Tunisian campaign he saw a mere fortnight 's active service . |
| 4 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 5 | Add together gross earnings on the eight pay-days up to and including the last pay-day before the end of the qualifying week ( QW ) and divide the total by 8 . |
| 6 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 7 | Bolton refused to lie down and in the last kick of normal time a shot from Philliskirk cannoned off the crossbar . |
| 8 | And in the last hours of night , Hell 's streets teemed with the addicts , the muggers . |
| 9 | Even before 1905 , a solidly-based mass press had come into being , and in the last decade of the Empire there was an explosion in the publication of newspapers , while the number of books appearing more than trebled in the first decade and a half of the century . |
| 10 | And in the last quarter of the year , diesels were taking 10 per cent of the total market . |
| 11 | In Britain , Huxley introduced this kind of physiology from France and Germany from the 1850s ; and in the last quarter of the century his pupils ( trained in South Kensington , in what became Imperial College ) filled chairs in British universities , where the field was now becoming separated from medicine . |
| 12 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 13 | 5.5 Decoration [ As often as may in the [ reasonable ] opinion of the Surveyor be necessary in order to maintain a high standard of decorative finish and attractiveness and to preserve the Premises or In each of the Decorating Years ] and in the last year of the Term to redecorate the Premises in a good and workmanlike manner and with appropriate materials of good quality [ to the [ reasonable ] satisfaction of the Surveyor ] the tints and colours and patterns of such decoration to be approved by the Landlord [ provided that the covenants relating to the last year of the Term shall not apply where the Tenant shall have redecorated the Premises less than [ 18 ] months prior to the expiry of the Term ] Most tenants would not wish to be under an obligation to redecorate the interior or exterior of the premises more frequently than every five years , although this is a matter for negotiation . |
| 14 | Huddersfield won the Charity Shield , beating the new champions Liverpool at Old Trafford , and in the last week of May the team left for a tour of Denmark . |
| 15 | And in the last section of the piece , because he knows that he is writing a draft , Thomas is able to add detail , to experiment with his choice of words , to cut out and to insert . |
| 16 | Since space permits no separate treatment of stunts and stunt artists , their work will be alluded to there and in the last section of this chapter , which concerns special make-ups and costumes — though in practice this may require not just stunt people but also the stars or extras . |
| 17 | ‘ He made much worse cuts in the ‘ Scenes aux champs ’ of Berlioz 's Symphonie fantastique and in the last movement of Martinů 's Sixth Symphony , though these seem to have been made in live performances only . ’ |
| 18 | England 's foreign policy was made by the privy council committee of foreign affairs , and in the last analysis by the king himself , aided by whichever minister or favourite had his ear at a given moment . |
| 19 | Regional Sector has no locomotives of its own and in the last months of the loco-hauled Cambrian Coast Express various locos have appeared . |
| 20 | The old man was a cripple and in the last years of his life . |
| 21 | A young man in his late teens by the time of the council of Whitby and the son of the reigning king in Bernicia by Eanflaed , daughter of Eadwine , Ecgfrith was almost certainly in a position to attract support not only among the Bernicians but also among the Deirans in the territory of Ealhfrith , and in the last years of his reign Oswiu did make him sub-king of Deira . |
| 22 | Pollen was also vice-president of the council of the Federation of British Industries , chairman of the British Commonwealth Union , and in the last years of his life took an active role in the development of English Catholicism as chairman of the Tablet . |
| 23 | This massive , muscular breed is now known all over the world and over the last quarter of a century it has seen herdbooks or breed societies established in 24 countries in addition to France ( Argentina , Australia , Belgium , Brazil , Canada , Denmark , Finland , Germany , Hungary , Ireland , Japan , Mexico , the Netherlands , Norway , Paraguay , Portugal , South Africa , Spain , Sweden , the UK , the USSR , the USA , Uruguay and Zimbabwe ) . |
| 24 | Right potato yields are just er , are rising quite dramatically , particularly since this point here is the end of the Second World War , and over the last part of this graph you can see yields have risen dramatically . |
| 25 | Yes , and the girls had three months ' notice to leave and on the last day at three months I heard that a young lady had left the Post Office . |
| 26 | He showed her over the nearby castle , took her for long drives , and on the last day of his — as he called it — ‘ snatched holiday ’ , seemingly relaxed and happy to be playing truant from the demands of his busy life , he drove to Bettystown . |
| 27 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 28 | Nana 's neighbours risked their rusted axles to carry up heavy goods for the store , and on the last Tuesday of each month the soda company sent a small pickup to collect its empty bottles . |
| 29 | On Tuesdays and Fridays , for example , the old quarter is busy with the fruit , flower and vegetable markets , and on the last Saturday of every month , it is enlivened by the traditional flea market . |
| 30 | The evangelical and puritan strands vigorously opposed the double standard , and by the last decades of the century were able to pose a significant challenge to its easy acceptance . |