Example sentences of "[verb] to last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gray , who wrote in Saturday 's match programme that morale at the club was good , thought a lack of confidence contributed to last Saturday 's dismal performance . |
| 2 | But if their record was added to last season 's run-in , which yielded five wins from the last six , then their 12 victories amount to the number Neston secured to win in 1992 . |
| 3 | Producing three pages of detailed questions relating to last year 's accounts may entitle an interviewer to draw an adverse conclusion . |
| 4 | During the year , we have also reviewed the investment of our liquid funds , we have planned a ‘ Patrons ’ scheme , with an eye to support particularly from the smaller banks in the City ; we have introduced credit card payments , and resolved a major uncertainty I referred to last year over our Lombard Street offices . |
| 5 | I STRONGLY object to last week 's South Durham Viewpoint ( Echo February 3 ) . |
| 6 | The relief applied to last year 's business rates bill , which is thought to have topped the £4,000 mark . |
| 7 | According to last year 's appraisal sheet I should have undergone training in : |
| 8 | According to last week 's gossip , Sparc licencees Fujitsu Ltd and LSI Logic have been talking to DEC about Alpha ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 9 | K-III , the publishing arm of buyout specialists Kohlberg Kravis Roberts , has emerged as a leading bidder for Macmillan Inc in what looks set to be a keenly fought bid battle , according to last week 's Independent on Sunday . |
| 10 | According to last week 's fascinating piece in the Organ by Publishers Weekly 's bookselling boffin John Mutter , the newly emerging ‘ chain superstores ’ in the US are taking the market by storm , with ‘ 15,000 to 30,000 sq ft of selling space and stock between 75,000 and 125,000 titles ’ . |
| 11 | The latest on Frank according to last nights local rag : — |
| 12 | He provided the first correct solution selected to last week 's query and knew that Brian Little ( Leicester ) and Steve Perryman ( Watford ) are current Football League managers who have been capped just once by England . |
| 13 | Foreign tours , far from being powered by a love of hard currency and routine displays of the standard Russian repertoire , have brought the unfamiliar to western audiences : it was typical of Gergiev 's driving force to take the Mussorgsky experience complete to last year 's Edinburgh Festival , and a fund-raising gala at Covent Garden , a four-hour marathon squeezed between a dozen Palermo Prince Igors , included a firm statement of future policies , with a galvanizing glimpse of Tchaikovsky 's The Enchantress , scenes from Iolanta and Mazeppa , and arias from Sadko and May Night ( Rimsky looks set for the Gergiev treatment soon ) . |
| 14 | Poor dear David Marquis , mid-nervous breakdown owing to last night 's appalling Box Office receipts , has left at 8 a.m . |
| 15 | The idea of UN policing of the Bosnian-Serbian border was agreed to last December . |
| 16 | But the thing was , what I , what I was ge getting to last night , is that we did n't bring the name into it , the surname . |
| 17 | Earnings per share in the period were five p but after taking into account exceptional Carpet Right gain this is reduced to two point eight p and compares to last year 's pro forma earnings per share of one point four million which included losses on the closing down of our operations . |
| 18 | Compared to last year . ’ |
| 19 | It is to be noted that in the most recent quarter , although auction sales were 15% up on the previous quarter , the higher loss compared to last year reflects a $7 million drop in sales from the Acquavella deal , now a separate division within Sotheby 's although included in the accounts as part of their auction operations . |
| 20 | In addition to companies generally experiencing the recession within the industry , another aspect of this has been an actual reduction in the number of textile companies in the Grampian area , compared to last year . |
| 21 | Commenting on the appointment , The Hindu of June 8 stated that Verma assumed charge at a critical time " when terrorist activity has increased as compared to last year , and the law and order machinery appears demoralized " . |
| 22 | Can you erm , quantify what costs were taken above the line in the first half in terms of redundancy costs , restructuring costs , in the presentation to some restructuring again in the fine china division and how that compared to last year ? |
| 23 | In all , 80 temporary staff have been added to the 480-strong workforce at Sandbach as orders for those types of vehicle are 40pc up compared to last year . |
| 24 | Group chairman Tom Peacock said if crime in Darlington stays at its present level Victim Support will have dealt with more than 4,600 incidents by the end of the year , compared to last year 's total of 2,789 . |
| 25 | Last month , sales increased by 30% compared to last year and workers are working flat out to meet impressive schedules of up to 48 cars per hour . |
| 26 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 27 | I mean holiday prices were , were sort of scheduled to go up this year compared to last year 's , probably sort of eight , nine , ten per cent . |
| 28 | received a thirty two point seven million pound increase from the Government compared to last years ' i revenue support grant and this does n't include the additional money given for the Community Charge . |
| 29 | The panel brought to last year 's assembly a modest am amendment of the nineteen sixty three act which it believed was theologically sound pastorally sensitive and which would provide a degree of flexibility . |
| 30 | The letter bomb attacks have been linked to last Wednesday 's elaborate bomb hoaxes at the offices of leading oil companies in Aberdeen and police believe that a rogue loner , rather than a small terrorist group , is responsible . |