Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
| 2 | They 'd probably be better off on the erm soft going tonight , but erm in the past few results erm it 's been evenly balanced Peter , you know , but every trap 's won in the last two or three meetings . |
| 3 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
| 4 | 1990-91commitments in support of macroeconomic and structural policies totalled only SDR5,600 million , two-thirds of which had been committed in the last four months to five countries — Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland and Romania . |
| 5 | Earned in the last war , no doubt , and that stiff , awkward leg too . |
| 6 | because it 's come out a lot in this discussion that is there 's a big gap between the biological , biological and medical knowledge that 's accrued in the last ten or fifteen years , and the actual social consequences of these developments and there has n't been enough discussion and consideration of what will happen . |
| 7 | Expected in the last half of 1993 , the company is intent on doubling Pentium 's performance and moving three instructions through the 2.2m transistor chip every cycle . |
| 8 | He moved to the window , walking with a pronounced limp on his left leg , the result of a shrapnel wound in the last days of the Korean War . |
| 9 | Reports of military gains by the Cambodian resistance have almost certainly been exaggerated in the last week , and estimations by the Thai and Chinese military intelligence agencies of the number of Vietnamese troops supposedly left behind in Cambodia appear little more than fanciful . |
| 10 | The High Elf sorcerers had succeeded in opening the vortex but were trapped within it , eternally keeping it open , eternally trapped in the last moments of their battle with Chaos . |
| 11 | Despite the brisk sales reported in the last few days before Christmas , December saw a small decline in retail trade compared with the previous year , according to the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , said on Tuesday that many retailers had reported a disappointing Christmas , although the results were an improvement on recent months and sales in January were expected to be up on a year ago . |
| 12 | ‘ I have obtained the police accident reports for each junction that you will drive through and have counted all accidents that have been reported in the last three years on any part of the junction . |
| 13 | He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them . |
| 14 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |
| 15 | Hundreds of thousands of small , sometimes hidden , cameras have been installed in the last decade , mainly to detect crime or monitor traffic . |
| 16 | ‘ How many patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have been discharged in the last year to a hostel or shelter rather than to a home of their own ? ’ |
| 17 | This brings us back , at long last , to the choice between the narrow and the comprehensive principles of neutrality broached in the last section . |
| 18 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 19 | 30 per cent of South Africa 's native woodlands have been felled in the last 15-20 years . |
| 20 | Most of the pupils participating were in the fourth year , but some third years were also included in the last round of testing . |
| 21 | Even in this chapter the discussion of The Winter 's Tale had occurred in the first edition much earlier in the book , from where it has been removed and rewritten to be included in the last chapter . |
| 22 | In vain has Adrienne written asking for news from the North-East to be included in the last two issues : for we had nothing to report beyond our puny struggles against the mighty Aerobics phenomenon . |
| 23 | You have at your disposal all the information on Palatine Ales contained in the last two cases , together with the earlier material on Acorn Hotels Ltd and Cheshire Restaurants Ltd . |
| 24 | Mr. Adey 's judgement of the state of the old House of Industry was harsh , but possibly justified by the facts contained in the last annual report and account , up to March 1836 , by which time the average number of inmates had fallen to sixty-six . |
| 25 | As in the case of the physical events considered in the last chapter in connection with causation and other nomic connection , mental events strictly speaking are to be regarded as individual properties or sets of such properties . |
| 26 | We have n't gone , in physics , seriously into trying to understand the biological aspects , but then you see biology is becoming dominated in the last ten years by the understanding of basic biochemistry of cells . |
| 27 | Discussion of this aspect will be pursued in the last two sections of this chapter as already promised . |
| 28 | However , their most striking innovation is in the way work is now organised in the last stages of the production process in the body shop . |
| 29 | Civil liberties have also been eroded in the last decade or more by government efforts to suppress media comment , criticism and reporting in cases such as the Spycatcher , Ponting and Tisdall affairs . |
| 30 | The signs of crisis are already there with 10 goals conceded in the last five games . |