Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lysis , a self-funded company , profitable for the last three years , sells direct in the US and Canada and through resellers in the Pacific Rim and South America . |
| 2 | Under the management of CEO Denis Brown , and financially re-structured ( UX No 402 ) , the company has been profitable for the last six quarters and is once again in growth mode , although margins are down and international sales weak . |
| 3 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 4 | It was kept alive during the last century by a series of exotic injections . |
| 5 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 6 | Well if Mark Bosnich was the man of the moment in midweek the name on everyone 's lips during the week during sorry during the last twenty four hours has been Bobby Gould . |
| 7 | The effect here is that during the last five years the Conservatives have played no part in the management of this county whatsoever , and it has been left to the other two parties to come to an agreement . |
| 8 | While chicken may be growing fatter , pork has become leaner during the last 10 years . |
| 9 | Tony said he had felt happier after discharge from hospital and that his father had been less critical and more supportive during the last few days . |
| 10 | ‘ She had been depressed during the last 18 months but I thought she was getting better . |
| 11 | The first clear trend is that the dispersion of gross earnings among male manual workers has changed very little during the last hundred years . |
| 12 | And he added : ‘ If I were an American , I would be saying thank goodness there have been some musicals to keep Broadway alive for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 13 | She realised that she had only been half alive for the last four years . |
| 14 | Businesses like Chartered Papermill where one of our honourable friends will be opening a new plant er shortly where they have have won awards for quality , for training and for exports , national and regional during the last three years . |
| 15 | Anxiety on this score became acute during the last decades of the fourth century , and the first of the fifth . |
| 16 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 17 | In practice , student occupancy for the last week of the Christmas and Easter terms averages 50 per cent , while that for the last two weeks of the summer term is 33 per cent . |
| 18 | One can only speculate on the implications of that for the last years of life and , in particular , for the acceptance of tending roles . |
| 19 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 20 | ‘ I rather think , ’ said the Archdeacon detachedly , ‘ that for the last couple of months she had merely visited . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ At first , I was keen just to get round but having done that for the last three years , I am now seriously looking at winning the race . ’ |
| 22 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 23 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
| 24 | Yeah we 've been pr promising that for the last |
| 25 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 26 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 27 | ‘ Pregnant For The Last Time ’ |
| 28 | Detailed mapping and dating of geomorphological features ( Sutherland and Walker , 1984 ; Sutherland , 1984 ) indicate that part of northern Lewis was ice-free during the last glaciation and the last Scottish ice-sheet did not extend beyond the Outer Hebrides , contrary to the widespread assumption that this ice-sheet extended to the edge of the continental shelf . |
| 29 | They forgot that mainframe developers have worked on this for the last 20 years . ’ |
| 30 | Sharon 's father has been unemployed for the last three years . |