Example sentences of "[adv] during the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swanage suffered badly during the last war , chiefly from ‘ tip-and-run ’ raids by bombers swooping in from the sea . |
| 2 | Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years . |
| 3 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 4 | The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well . |
| 5 | The ribs should be barbecued well away from direct heat for a good two hours — begin basting with sauce only during the last 15–20 minutes of cooking , otherwise the sauce will taste bitter . |
| 6 | Only during the last 100 years has the active cultivation of aquatic plants for decoration been practised , and then widely only during the last 25 years . |
| 7 | Only during the last 100 years has the active cultivation of aquatic plants for decoration been practised , and then widely only during the last 25 years . |
| 8 | Observers agreed that Nonconformist buildings improved with the century , especially during the last twenty-five years . |
| 9 | Previously a very short-legged blocky type , it is growing longer , leaner and taller , especially during the last 10–20 years in America , Australia and New Zealand , by careful and selective breeding . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Later they were supplied by specialist brickmakers whose numbers increased greatly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It has been calculated that there has been an average of about 30 feet of deposition close inshore during the last 5000 years . |
| 14 | In that log book , which he showed me later , was the name , port and country of origin , of every ship that had passed through during the last eight and a half years , together with her age and condition , her destination , and of course the name of the captain and details of the cargo . |
| 15 | for most of it , but not during the last few days |
| 16 | The way in which things are made has changed slowly through the millennia and much more rapidly during the last two centuries . |
| 17 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 18 | The level of owner occupation in Britain has increased rapidly during the last 30 years to the point where nearly two out of every three households either own or are buying their own home . |
| 19 | Some of these have n't missed the traditional dinner once during the last 20 years . |
| 20 | Yet the transmission of precious substances in the form of jewellery or other objects of display has at all times and most notably during the last five millennia served the same purpose the world over , that of signalling and enhancing status . |
| 21 | Yonder , the town , had grown enormously during the last twenty years . |
| 22 | Again there was a trend to increasing size , and they ultimately became the predominant land animal , expanding territorially during the last 70 million years of Paleozoic history and preying on the abundance of insects . |
| 23 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 24 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 25 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 26 | Before the 1980s its lowest ebb was probably during the last years of Stalin 's life when his private office and the secret police seem to have had more influence than the party . |
| 27 | Work on the drift deposits of the Livingston and Falkirk areas in central Scotland indicate that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 28 | The distribution of raised marine sediments and associated well-marked shorelines reveal that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 29 | Although The Art Newspaper has written extensively during the last few months about the problems the international art trade will be facing in just over half a year from now , I nevertheless want to bring to your attention some other serious difficulties which the art market will have to confront , issues which are quite separate from the general economic malaise affecting business at the moment . |
| 30 | Occupational sick pay schemes have increased very substantially during the last twenty years . |