Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The branch is still reeling from the losses suffered at last year 's polls . |
| 2 | Work presented at last summer 's high-energy physics conference in Paris gave an upper limit of 2.25 x 10 31 years for a proton decaying into a positron and a . |
| 3 | Teeth cleaned at last . |
| 4 | The majority of EC governments support Mr Delors in using the impulse of the moves to democracy in Eastern Europe , and the overwhelming backing for EMU shown at last weekend 's Strasbourg summit , to secure a bigger role for the parliament . |
| 5 | Hatje 's partner edition cantz issues a number of appraisals and retrospective catalogues of works shown at last summer 's Documenta IX . |
| 6 | The bill is the first of its kind introduced by any government , and reflects the recommendations of the convention on biodiversity signed at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 7 | It was on his prompting that ethnic drop-out youths were now accepted onto college courses without formal qualifications ; it was on his urging that examinations were now being set and marked in Urdu and other minority languages , the faculties shamed at last out of their insistence that English was the only language in the world that counted . |
| 8 | The steadying claw withdrawn at last . |
| 9 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 10 | The FAO 's new estimate of 15.4 million hectares a year is down from the 16.9 million hectare estimate presented at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , but well above the 11.4 million hectare estimate of 1980 . |
| 11 | This year seventy five jobs lost at last week and there 's four hundred job losses that are currently being negotia negotiated in United Engineering Steels in Sheffield and Rotherham . |
| 12 | NorthWest Digital Systems , Seattle , California , was demonstrating an X Terminal design based around the new chip , called Wildcat 2 — the second generation of its original Wildcat design launched at last year 's show . |