Example sentences of "[vb base] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 2 | Hunt for the last wolf in Norway |
| 3 | Now I die for the last time . |
| 4 | Is the Minister aware that eight times as many houses were built under the previous Labour Government than those doctored figures show for the last financial year ? |
| 5 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 6 | One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding . |
| 7 | go for the last , before Christmas that was six months . |
| 8 | Go for the last couple of lines whate whatever stage you 're at . |
| 9 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 10 | Return for the last time to the Hall and enter the Diet , with its throne of 1836 . |
| 11 | We will continue to protect its value against price rises , as we have for the last 13 years . |
| 12 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 13 | But I want you to understand that , in making up my mind , I did not forget the country or the Commonwealth which , as Prince of Wales , I have for the last 23 years tried to serve . |
| 14 | Now , is it any wonder why American businesses in Singapore have for the last 5 years registered a remarkable 25% average rate of return . |
| 15 | I have for the last ten years been writing software using Clipper database and would like to improve the front end on some of the software . |
| 16 | It 's simply not good enough for them to say , as they have for the last forty five years , elect us , we 'll change everything and then things will be alright . |
| 17 | I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme . |
| 18 | One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally ! |
| 19 | ‘ Well , folks , we may not have heard our favourite songbird sing for the last couple of weeks , but it 's certainly nice to know our very own Rory can still put on one hell of a floorshow ! ’ |
| 20 | And then as I say , it was defend , defend , defend for the last quarter of an hour . |