Example sentences of "[adj] during the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was kept alive during the last century by a series of exotic injections . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While chicken may be growing fatter , pork has become leaner during the last 10 years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ She had been depressed during the last 18 months but I thought she was getting better . |
| 7 | The first clear trend is that the dispersion of gross earnings among male manual workers has changed very little during the last hundred years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Anxiety on this score became acute during the last decades of the fourth century , and the first of the fifth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 12 | Burma is fortunate in that she has enough for her own needs , though she was only just able to ensure this during the last harvest . |
| 13 | It was not necessary , however , to travel to one of these fashionable watering places to partake of the health-giving beverage , and ‘ taking the waters ’ at a local spring or spa ( spaw to many Northeners ) became very popular during the last century . |
| 14 | The use of indicators of current economic performance relative to past performance has become more and more widespread during the last 50 years . |
| 15 | If your employee is sick during the last eight weeks before leaving and you have paid SSP for more than three days you have to fill in a Leaver 's statement SSP(L) . |
| 16 | Nocodazole ( 5μgml -1 ) , which arrests cells in mitosis , was present during the last 6h of culture . |
| 17 | As the data from a statistically more developed country in Table 2 demonstrate , though there were drastic changes in the level of infant mortality which decreased by two thirds during the last three decades , the relationship between maternal age and infant mortality , as shown by the quadrennial data , remained basically the same . |
| 18 | I wish that we had been able during the last few months to persuade our European colleagues that we are not arguing just for a narrow British position . |
| 19 | Fish stocks have continued to decrease despite expenditure of over $1 billion during the last decade in building fish ladders , screens over turbine intakes and hatcheries . |
| 20 | Mary Ann was blind during the last few years of her life , and it had the quite understandable effect of making her very emotional ; she only had one set of grandchildren , and she made such a fuss of them : ‘ My Siddy ’ , she would say , as she stroked her young grandson 's cheek with tears in her eyes . |
| 21 | According to a report published on Dec. 5 by the human rights organization Amnesty International , more than 5,000 people had been executed in Iran in the past three years , including some 2,500 during the last six months of 1988 coinciding with a crackdown on left-wing dissidents [ see pp. 36630-31 ] . |
| 22 | It has been tough during the last two Tests , and when it gets tough you want to have your best blokes there . ’ |
| 23 | The amount of the tax rebate is at its highest during the last quarter of the tax year and it is obviously at its lowest during the first quarter . |
| 24 | ATMOSPHERIC CO 2 concentration was 160 to 200μmolmol -1 during the Last Glacial Maximum ( LGM ; about 18,000 years ago ) , rose to about 275μmolmol -1 10,000 years ago , and has increased to about 350 μmolmol -1 since 1800 ( ref. 4 ) . |
| 25 | The Shah had repeatedly been to American during the last thirty years. ; he had been welcomed with full honours as not only an important chief of state by also a vital ally by every single president since Harry Truman . |
| 26 | More than 20 animals have become extinct within the state over the last 10 years — compared to 40 during the last 194 years , since colonization . |
| 27 | Radio stations attracted a total audience of 41.6 million during the last quarter of 1992 , it said . |
| 28 | These resources have led to the completion of some [ 24 ] deals with a value in excess of £300 million during the last twenty four months [ to 30.9.91 ] of which five were cross border in that a non UK purchaser was involved . |
| 29 | THE company which supplies more than 40 per cent of Scotland 's electricity achieved an operating profit of £13.7 million during the last financial year . |
| 30 | ‘ Jardin à Auvers ’ is thought to have been painted in July 1890 during the last month Van Gogh spend at Auvers-sur-Oise with Dr Paul-Ferdinand Gachet the Christie 's portrait of the doctor , from the collection of Siegfried Kramarsky , was done between 3 and 5 June 1890 . |