Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in Ceylon we visited Allied Headquarters in Kandy , where I was taken one afternoon by Colonel Christian into the ‘ War Room ’ to hear the reports received during the last twenty-four hours , and a commentary on them by a senior staff officer . |
| 2 | And the salary reference is the highest salary rate you 've actually received during the last three years . |
| 3 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
| 4 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 5 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
| 6 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |
| 7 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 8 | The impersonal and durable character of these rights was highlighted during the last years of Louis VII 's reign , in the use in charters of the phrase corona regni ( the crown of the kingdom ) , a phrase which marked out royal rights from princely by asserting their value to the kingdom as a whole . |
| 9 | The road from Silchester to Durobrivae and includes Dorchester-on-Thames , Alchester , Towcester and Irchester , assuming there is a gap in the road yet to be filled between the last two places . |
| 10 | Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market . |
| 11 | The presenter drained off the last of her gin and tonic and clinked the ice in the bottom of her glass . |
| 12 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 13 | Hence the figure of 110.97p calculated for the last published results is not strictly comparable with that ( 131.2p ) calculated for the half-yearly figures . |
| 14 | Which is hooey ; for when the thumping result is announced , the House burst into a blast of clapping , happy as a choral society that has just flown through the last tricky chorus . |
| 15 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 16 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 17 | Aim for the knoll of Little Ingleborough where a path coming up from Gaping Gill will be joined for the last easy half-mile to the summit . |
| 18 | You may be able to claim constructive dismissal even if the incident which directly leads to your departure is minor , if it can be regarded as the last straw . |
| 19 | Nor can the stability argument be regarded as the last word , as we do not know whether general relativity itself will be valid right up to the space-time singularity . |
| 20 | Whether the bloom shape is the ultimate , only time will tell , for there have been other occasions in the development of the rose when a new type has been regarded as the last word . |
| 21 | This may be regarded as the last fling of this relationship . |
| 22 | The Mersey building programme had continued at an impressive rate throughout 1990 with orders recently placed for the last 14 fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) boats — due to be completed within the next 22 months . |
| 23 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |
| 24 | Similarly bodies such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England , often depicted as the last refuge of ex-Etonian Guards officers and assorted upper-class cranks , was able to speak with a new confidence and a new authority , attract a new breed of membership and turn itself into a highly professional custodian of the English countryside . |
| 25 | The position of the team test driver , which McNish has occupied for the last two years with Marlboro McLaren , can lead to a permanent seat in the team — as happened to Damon Hill , who has replaced Nigel Mansell alongside Alain Prost with Williams-Renault . |
| 26 | Why was Sharp dropped for the last few games , and did he play today ? |
| 27 | Metcalfe and Richards point out that the strategic management literature has wrestled for the last 20 years with the problems of managing for results in unstable conditions , yet the lessons which emerge are just starting to be taken on board in the public sector . |
| 28 | If you are one of the people who left the course at 4pm , I have enclosed a copy of the Action Plan that was considered during the last half hour . |
| 29 | One of the highest-ranking Mafia figures ever to testify for the authorities , Gravano claimed to having participated in 19 murders , and insisted that those committed during the last 10 years had been on the orders of Gotti . |
| 30 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |