Example sentences of "[pron] in the last " in BNC.
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1 | The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US . |
2 | Usually it was a relief to be free of those gentle and accusing ghosts , which in the last few months had visited her less often . |
3 | And now time , which in the last ten minutes seemed mysteriously to have halted , flowed again and he was standing at his bedroom window five days later watching the great ball of the sun rise out of the sea to stain the horizon and spread over the eastern sky the veins and arteries of the new day . |
4 | Moreover , since there is no irreducible kernel of class interest which in the last analysis guides all else , the ideas , the culture , the religion of a given society may well play a critical role in explaining social and political development . |
5 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
6 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
7 | It was squarely concluded that Hitler , through the over-estimation of his own strength and rejection of all overtures for peace from neutral states , ‘ bears himself in the last resort the blame for the retrograde development which has now set in ’ . |
8 | The Seventh , however , is reined back to the point of stodginess , at least until the white-hot finale and even there one of the trumpets forgets himself in the last three bars . |
9 | Labour may also gamble that Scottish Liberal Democrats — who in the last parliament made up almost half Mr Ashdown 's party — will be reluctant to vote down a government which is trying to legislate for a Scottish assembly elected by proportional representation . |
10 | Steve McQueen in The Getaway and Bullitt and Paul Newman in The Drowning Pool are the big fashion influences cited at Burro , the people who in the last couple of years have flogged us tank tops as well as the classic ‘ No Alla Violenza ’ Ts in conjunction with Duffer . |
11 | ‘ What I want now is to know who in the last month has been here to buy arsenic and belladonna ? |
12 | Who in the last few weeks purchased this poison ? ’ |
13 | It 's been so dreary for you in the last couple of weeks . |
14 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
15 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
16 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
17 | In the meantime , the Lebanese parliament , whose members are meeting in Taif a year after their failure to elect a president led to the creation of rival Lebanese cabinets , is itself in the last stages of life . |
18 | That 's one trophy in 37 years , none in the last 19 ; hardly sufficient to warm the cockles of what once cared to call itself the hotbed of soccer . |
19 | Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
20 | ‘ Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
21 | There was something in the last track of Sheer Event Shift about the Wizard King being crowned in a towering castle . |
22 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
23 | Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes . |
24 | The role of film licences has become an increasingly prominent one in the last few years . |
25 | It starts with a distinction similar to the one in the last paragraph , between what an action meant and what the actor meant by it . |
26 | one 's in the first stanza and one in the last one . |
27 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
28 | She pretty well knew how things had stood between Father and me in the last few years . |
29 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
30 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |