Example sentences of "[adj] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we 've made perfectly clear in the last discussion we 've just had , no final decisions on the implementation of any variations will be taken until Council meets on the twenty fifth of February . |
| 2 | It had been made clear in the last few days , he said , with low-paid workers in North Ayrshire having their wages cut to join a trust while senior managers at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh awarded themselves BMW cars . |
| 3 | It had become increasingly claustrophobic in the last few weeks . |
| 4 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |
| 5 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |
| 6 | Staff turnover has been high in the last few years as school closure has loomed closer . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've got to be more ruthless and more direct in the last third of the field . ’ |
| 8 | While all the leading players at the Masters have been asked about the prospects of the US regaining a title won by the British in the last four years , the Australians have been quietly asserting themselves . |
| 9 | General Motors approached the Smithsonian six or seven years ago asking if we would be interested in the last Cadillac convertible from its assembly line . |
| 10 | Three other people had also said they were interested in the last few days . |
| 11 | So what has made advertising so popular in the last number of years ? |
| 12 | At the Court of Wards the Tooke family were making the office of auditor hereditary in the last years of Elizabeth , but it was still possible for an active reformer like John Hare to be appointed Clerk ; inexperienced men began to be appointed to offices in this court under James . |
| 13 | Now what I 'd like you to do is to select two , I told you I 'd be serious in the last part , the whole is here , is select the two pads you like best , please , and put one at the front of the binder and one at the back . |
| 14 | Noticeable in the last decade or two in fiction , it is a reaction that could be called political . |
| 15 | Neither Maxwell nor Murdoch , so prominent in the last twenty years of the period , fits the simple pattern of a non-media organization moving in or a media one moving out . |
| 16 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've not found it too difficult so far this week and hopefully I will feel comfortable in the last two rounds , but it 's a big , nasty course out there and anything can happen . |
| 18 | It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents . |
| 19 | The proportion headed by a lone father , at 2% , has remained virtually unchanged in the last two decades . |
| 20 | Such confrontation has been less frequent in the last ten years , probably because of the decline in popular support for extreme right-wing groups . |
| 21 | In the past , some of Britain 's best known defence contracters have provided secure long term employment in the constituency , but thousands have been made redundant in the last two years . |
| 22 | With the wind against , it was certainly playing long in the last round . |
| 23 | Leonard was full-blooded , physically and temperamentally , and these teenage years saw him active in a wide range of sporting interests : cycling ( one of his favourite pastimes then ) , skiing , swimming , canoeing , sailing and ice-hockey ( in which he made the school team ) , boxing and wrestling , though he was very little involved in the last two . |
| 24 | The other outstanding cup tie , between Old Loughtonians and Broxbourne , has been arranged for Sunday week because Broxbourne are involved in the last of the East qualifiers for the Royal Bank English Indoor Championship . |
| 25 | The other outstanding cup tie , between Old Loughtonians and Broxbourne , has been arranged for Sunday week because Broxbourne are involved in the last of the East qualifiers for the Royal Bank English Indoor Championship . |
| 26 | I became very emotionally involved in the last round because everything Lee touched went in the damned hole . |
| 27 | The peacocks wandered poetically by , the cock 's tail and plumage brilliant in the last rays of the sun . |
| 28 | Comparisons between cultures become possible in the last stage . |
| 29 | ‘ George Graham has been very supportive in the last few years , during which I 've come through a lot of problems . |
| 30 | The company says that overseas royalties it has earned on behalf of the authors , artists and publishers it represents have increased five-fold in the last three years , and that it currently licenses its properties in 25 countries . |