Example sentences of "in the last [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket . |
| 2 | Glen Lyons , consultant trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic , says : ‘ In the last five years I 've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of women suffering from hair and scalp conditions , particularly the speeding up of genetic hair loss . |
| 3 | And in the last five years he 's too old to do it . |
| 4 | ‘ In the last financial year we were delighted to be the second most profitable group in the network , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | ‘ In the last 10 years we 've created more jobs than ever before , higher living standards than ever before , better social services than ever before , higher living … |
| 6 | In the last general election it was encouraging to find where contest had taken place that enthusiasm for cooperative representation had been considerably increased , and in addition the opportunity of bringing before the general public the benefits of cooperation has resulted in a very material addition to the cooperative forces in the district . |
| 7 | ‘ It was pretty close for a while , but in the last two sets I got run over by a Mack truck , ’ said Navratilova , who told the crowd that next year will probably be her last year of competing on the tour as a singles player . |
| 8 | In the last two chapters we took some time to reach the chosen texts . |
| 9 | In the last two chapters we have looked at the part played by parties and interest groups in British politics . |
| 10 | In the last two chapters we have been looking at deserted and surviving villages . |
| 11 | In the last two hours I discover that he is a pharmacist , a male nurse , and a killer . |
| 12 | When you are playing regularly you can show your ability in the best light and in the last two games I 've done that . ’ |
| 13 | In the last two centuries it has also been a source of scholarly controversy amongst historians , theologians and philosophers . |
| 14 | Yet in the last two Tests they fought back well , with some help from the weather which few could have grudged them , to earn draws , several batsmen contributing excellent fighting innings . |
| 15 | But field staff fear that this might not be appreciated in head-quarters where senior officials might be unfamiliar with their routine strategies : ‘ One can say that because you have n't taken any stats in the last two years it 's because you 're a good lad , and people who you may have to take stats upon know that you 're around a lot , and they know that if they 're naughty it 's a two-edged thing , you can look at it two ways . ’ |
| 16 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
| 17 | ‘ In the last two years I have missed nearly everything , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I think companies well in fact B and Q erm recently announced that er not recently I mean in the last eighteen months they 've started to have their er stores erm |
| 19 | In the last fifteen years we 've been a country where law had little to do with Labour relations . |
| 20 | ‘ In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences . |
| 21 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 22 | And in the last hundred years you 've done nothing but rob , fight , and murder ! |
| 23 | In the last six articles I tried not to describe any canoeing technique as right or wrong . |
| 24 | The company says that in the last six months it has sold over 600 Ingres Search Accelerator add-on boards . |
| 25 | And somewhere in the last six months he found time to contribute some enthusiastic atmospherics to New Order 's World Cup single , ‘ E Is For England ’ . |
| 26 | In the last six years he had seen her occasionally — in the street , at the Ritz ( Plumford 's only cinema , which was known locally as the Fleapit ) and once at a party . |
| 27 | and twice in the last nine months I 've been in the United States and I was amazed at the number of very large women |
| 28 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 29 | In the last few minutes he would fumble in a inside pocket , and the Queen in her handbag , and they would quickly run through the formal subjects for discussion . |
| 30 | In the last few hours she 's moved house , but we 'll find her . |