Example sentences of "in [art] last [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have charted complex changes since 1000 BC , showing that even in the last 1500 years the area has evolved from a series of tidal inlets , through the development of spits and dunes , to the triangular area that it is today , with the vast recent pebble dumps of Dungeness . |
| 2 | But in the last twelve months the fury of the entire national had been aroused against him by an aged , exiled cleric for whom he had only contempt . |
| 3 | In the last five years the UK colour TV industry has all but disappeared as firms from the Far East have taken over . |
| 4 | However , in the last 5 years the command line interface has begun to be replaced by the graphical user interface ( GUI ) . |
| 5 | In the last 200 years the irrigation system has been extended to increase the number of crops grown annually and especially to increase the cultivation of cotton which is a major export crop . |
| 6 | But it is certainly true that in the last sixty years the various schools and academies of acting have had a significant effect on the climate of acting . |
| 7 | In the last two decades the number of people saying they could no longer do jobs about the house or enjoy their hobbies because of sickness has steadily risen . |
| 8 | In the last two decades the British economy has suffered from high unemployment , and until recently , high inflation and low productivity growth . |
| 9 | It is also clear that in the last two weeks the whole country , as it heard different voices and different noises , has wondered who is speaking for the Labour party . |
| 10 | On financial grounds alone the event was a resounding success , and after two thrilling encounters in the last two years the public appetite here is established beyond doubt . |
| 11 | In the last two years the number of contrived matches , with results achieved only by means of last-day declarations and sometimes by lollipop bowling , has grown . |
| 12 | In the last two years the Sudbury auto parts factory has allowed 300 workers to leave through voluntary redundancy or early retirement , said Mr Hull . |
| 13 | In the last thirty years the balance in our criminal justice system has been tilted too far in favour of the criminal and against the protection of the public . |
| 14 | With the exponential explosion of human populations in the last hundred years the natural resources on which such societies traditionally depended have been under increasing pressure both from the indigenous people and from foreigners who had little thought or concern for practising sustainable harvesting . |
| 15 | The stroke works well in boats of this length but in the last six years the average length of kayak has dropped by almost a metre . |
| 16 | In 1877 a book was published entitled Switzerland 's Development into a Unitary State , so the trend is long term ; yet in the last few decades the country has undergone large-scale centralisation . |
| 17 | In the last few decades the interest shown by social scientists in such evolutionary schemes has waned , notwithstanding the growing attention paid to problems of ‘ development ’ ; for the latter notion is not usually incorporated into any general conception of the history of human society , and despite first appearances is largely unhistorical . |
| 18 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 19 | In the last few years the Conservative government has instituted a programme called ‘ Next Steps ’ . |
| 20 | In the last few years the volume of literature concerned with gender and mathematics has grown apace , both at home and abroad . |
| 21 | I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased . |
| 22 | Yet in the last few days the Romanians have started underplaying the role of Timisoara in sparking off open opposition to Ceausescu , highlighting instead the undoubtedly fearless role of the citizens of Bucharest . |
| 23 | But in the last few days the food supplies from CARE alone have fed at least 150,000 people . |
| 24 | In the last ten years the number of phone calls from Britain to other European countries has multiplied two and half times . |
| 25 | From the end of World War II to the early 1970s there was virtually full employment in developed countries , but in the last ten years the position has changed considerably as shown in fig. 1.11 . |
| 26 | This has certainly been the record industry strategy : in the last ten years the major companies have consolidated their control of the manufacture and distribution of records , tapes and videos while leaving more and more of the musical enterprise to the ‘ independents ’ . |
| 27 | In the last ten years the BDA has successfully taken up many individual cases of discrimination . |
| 28 | In consolidating data from several areas it has been proposed that a rapid rise of sea level occurred in the early Holocene but that in the last 6000 years the rate has been far less , although it may have diminished progressively , it may have risen to c . |
| 29 | In the last 12 months the bill was around £400,000 , an even greater drop when inflation was taken into account . |
| 30 | In the last 12 months the number waiting for more than two years across the Yorkshire region dropped from more than 3,000 to just 16 . |