Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEENAGERS facing the last two years of compulsory schooling will be able to study new ‘ short courses ’ as an alternative to full GCSE ones . |
| 2 | TEENAGERS facing the last two years of compulsory schooling will be able to study new ‘ short courses ’ as an alternative to full GCSE ones . |
| 3 | Ahead was the daunting sight of the three grandstands enclosing the last green . |
| 4 | The output probe order of the annealing is then broken into a set of probe contigs , with either no or very few clones connecting the last probe of one contig to the first probe of the next . |
| 5 | This fact has been demonstrated in official and independent research studies spanning the last century . |
| 6 | A ticket agency is closing down claiming it 's lost fifty thousand pounds following the last minute cancellation of a concert by the pop star Prince . |
| 7 | ‘ Really , ’ exclaimed in heavily scandalized tones one of the few other passengers braving the last gusts of a salt-laden sirocco up on deck , an Englishwoman in an ample frock loud with different coloured daisies . |
| 8 | Discretion would appear to be ‘ the better part ’ ; about fifty to sixty metres down from me on the right are some very steep — probably vertical — cliffs falling the last thirteen to seventeen metres into the sea and I have no desire to ride an avalanche down . |
| 9 | Like here , the leaves at Leighton would be turning a reddish-gold , there would be the faint smell of wood smoke , and Corbett wondered if his wife was also out in the fields enjoying the last lingering warm embrace of summer . |
| 10 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
| 11 | The Carrier rolled forward , without slowing , its massive tyres crushing the last of the barricade . |