Example sentences of "[noun pl] during the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | GRIST also seems to have worsened what has been an increasing difficulty in arts professional development programmes during the last decade . |
| 2 | It has been argued that in Britain , on every major social issue that has come before the courts during the last thirty years , the judges have supported ‘ the conventional , established and settled interest [ and ] have reacted strongly against challenges to those interests ’ ( Griffith , 1991 , p. 325 ) . |
| 3 | It is possible that a ‘ fire storm ’ condition developed in the town , similar to that which occurred in several German cities during the last war , when saturation bombing raids started so many fires that the city became effectively one big fire , sucking into itself hurricane force winds to bring fresh oxygen to the heart of the inferno . |
| 4 | The gasometer was rebuilt after being badly damaged by German bombs during the last war . |
| 5 | Gruinard Island is prominent off-shore : this was commandeered by the military authorities during the last war for experiments in chemical weapons , the ground being so contaminated that approaches to it were forbidden for forty years afterwards , the ban only recently being lifted . |
| 6 | Western human rights groups claimed that as many as 2,000 people had been executed by the authorities during the last six months of martial law , and many more were being held in detention . |
| 7 | The continued decline of international prices for the LDCs ' main export products during the last decade ; the danger of a fall in official development assistance and the consequences of the Gulf crisis , were listed as the main factors affecting growth in LDCs . |
| 8 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 9 | It , it came or it or it would be one of the depressions that the town has suffered from many times during the last fifty or sixty years . |
| 10 | She had been mean with money all her life , using her daughter and granddaughter as servants , and even herself at times during the last seven or so years as unhired help , except for the time that Rosie was here . |
| 11 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 12 | Another significant factor has been the instrumental ‘ explosion ’ which has affected all schools during the last forty years . |
| 13 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 14 | The first was an intention to treat analysis in which the values at the last visit of three pivotal outcome measures — that is , urinary albumin and sodium excretion and mean arterial pressure — obtained from all included subjects during the last three months of their follow up were carried forward . |
| 15 | Are you sure you have n't been taking any drugs , tablets , medicines of any sort — ’ she shook her head violently , but refused to meet his gaze ‘ — or any antibiotics during the last six months ? ’ |
| 16 | He served in the Queen 's Own Cameron Highlanders during the last war and has since held many executive positions which have brought prosperity and jobs to Scotland . |
| 17 | The average breath CH 4 concentrations during the last three days of each test period were calculated for responders and non-responders separately ( Table I ) . |
| 18 | Pulse arrival times have been recorded by Taylor and his colleagues over extended periods during the last 15 years . |
| 19 | Under pressure of emerging economic and imperial rivalries during the last quarter of the nineteenth century , many of the underlying assumptions of Cobdenism were called into question . |
| 20 | There 've been a lot of valuable plants and bulbs stolen from the Botanical Gardens during the last few weeks . |
| 21 | The artist was one of the so called Bevin boys , who were drafted in to work as miners during the last war . |
| 22 | Police officers have taken 1,500 statements from youngsters during the last year . |
| 23 | It was quite a problem to cut short her client 's long-winded story of the cat 's movements during the last twenty-four hours , but at last the door closed and Sophie turned to Helen . |
| 24 | There were few explicit and illegal anti-British protests during the last century of colonial rule . |
| 25 | Biblical scholarship has made enormous advances during the last forty years , aided immensely by the discovery of new primary sources , material unavailable to researchers in the past . |
| 26 | As with all farm workers during the last century , Dad 's family were used to poverty — never any sweets or treats and barely enough money to exist . |
| 27 | Although there have been many useful publications in the field of special educational needs during the last decade , the distinguishing feature of the present series of volumes lies in their concern with specific areas of the curriculum in primary and secondary schools . |
| 28 | Your pension is calculated as a proportion of your final pay , which could mean literally the last year you work or for example ( and this is a requirement for controlling directors and those earning over £100,000 ) the average of three consecutive years during the last ten . |
| 29 | Other examples might be the monthly Retail Price Index over a period of ten years , or the quarterly balance of payment figures during the last Labour government . |
| 30 | We have given asylum to political refugees over many centuries : the Huguenots , the Jews from eastern Europe and Russia at the turn of the century , continental Europeans during the last war — including my father — and many others . |