Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 31 | For many years the only Medau teacher in those parts , she has been particularly concerned , especially during the last few years , with classes for the elderly and handicapped , and has been a pioneer in getting Medau accepted as a suitable retraining system for stroke victims . |
| 32 | Yet the Crown derived little profit from the herds of deer which still remained in some forests : the Forest of Dean , for example , had in 1788 ‘ supplied only Four Bucks and Four Does Annually for the last Seven Years ’ . |
| 33 | He used to be the crier , but had recently taken over from Fred Harrison who had proclaimed the fair annually for the last thirty years . |
| 34 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 35 | Later they were supplied by specialist brickmakers whose numbers increased greatly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 36 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 37 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 38 | Marr watches ‘ Ouija Board ’ go down for the last time |
| 39 | AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool . |
| 40 | I felt I could not refuse to see my aunt , perhaps for the last time . |
| 41 | ‘ My grandfather was … always an active man , right t'more or less about the last year that he died . |
| 42 | However , with Colin Dick still on his way home from Australia , Bell fills in as the last man in defence with Alan Simpson and Michael Rainey in the centre . |
| 43 | And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years . |
| 44 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 45 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 46 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 47 | So for the last three years she 's lived alone , existing on income support and other allowances totalling about £80 a week . |
| 48 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 49 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 50 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 51 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 52 | ‘ You have n't put a mouthful in for the last ten minutes . ’ |
| 53 | Cy left the cast and Michael came in for the last two weeks of rehearsals . |
| 54 | Both players were brought in for the last six weeks of the season as McHale began to look ahead to next season when the Seasiders hope to mount a serious promotion push . |
| 55 | I 've been thinking it 's needed some more in for the last few meals . |
| 56 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 57 | Europe disappeared from the political imagination for the duration , not merely during the last month of the campaign , but during a large part of the long and tedious pre-campaign . |
| 58 | Certainly , the appearance and spreading of turbulent spots , described below as the last stages of transition , are commonly observed in uncontrolled transition ( e.g. Fig. 17.18 ) . |
| 59 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 60 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |