Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 2 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 3 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 4 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 5 | But when my father took over , when he came back to Galashiels , he started in bicycles and there was quite probably ten bicycle shops in Galashiels at that time and er he gave , well he , he attracted business with his efficient way of repairing bicycles and er it 's funny that after about a number of years , we were between the last , after the last war I should say , the Second World War , er we were about the only people for , for a period the only bicycle shop in Galashiels . |
| 6 | By the time they started ‘ I Guess it Does n't Matter Anymore ’ they were onto the last saucepan and the table was covered with clean , dry things . |
| 7 | Bright Yorkshire prospect Adil Ditta scored 58 for Middlesbrough but they too had to fight hard for runs and were into the last over before they achieved their win by a four wicket margin . |
| 8 | Few people are offended today , as they were in the last century , by the thought of man and the chimpanzee being classified together by virtue of a common ancestor which has been extinct for probably more than three million years ! |
| 9 | Second , how successful you were in the last job so that she ? he can gauge what calibre of person you are . |
| 10 | Women are not debarred from any legal statuses which are held by men , as they were in the last century . |
| 11 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 12 | Can the Prime Minister really take any comfort from the fact that , bad as today 's figures are , they are slightly less bad than they were in the last Tory slump ? |
| 13 | Leeds last 2 goals were in the last 8 minutes . |
| 14 | They were joined by a party of Anzacs , who were on the last day of their leave before returning to the desert . |
| 15 | Sarah Duncombe 's two children and boyfriend Adrian Foster were among the last to be moved off a disused farm in Ibstock , Leics . |
| 16 | We were among the last to leave the Greenwood Theatre , but the lensmen , Dominic reported , were lying in wait . |
| 17 | Two of the survivors assured me they were among the last girls to be admitted to the trade . |
| 18 | The hand-loom weavers were among the last to be driven into the factories . |
| 19 | As Sawyer and Darton wrote so tellingly in English Books : ‘ The Running Stationers , as they were at the last called , bore a light but precious fardel : just the Short History of the English People — no more . ‘ |
| 20 | Well on the issue of what 's happening in the er Health Authority here , it 's a very much erm a surprise to everybody because those of us who were at the last meeting that we had , only a couple of months ago , to quite categorically saying that , she , that she was just not interested in the . |
| 21 | On page five , those of you who were at the last council meeting will know that the City Centre Management Working Party were charged with the responsibility of looking at the whole issue of street trading . |
| 22 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 23 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 24 | Anne Lister was for the last fourteen years of her life the owner and occupant of Shibden Hall in Halifax . |
| 25 | It was during the last years of the reign of Anne Boleyn 's daughter Elizabeth that the curative effects of lemon juice on scurvy victims was observed , although neither cause nor effect were understood . |
| 26 | I think Row was about the last row in and of course you 'd got all the fields , Gardens and what have you . |
| 27 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 28 | I was about the last one with a tanker er before er strike I mean they 've been there afterwards but er and er a certain tank was empty . |
| 29 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 30 | Well the County made certificates for the Polytechnic phase two student hostels off John Garne Way , er that actually for phase one was about the last time they got an award at all , and er the panel were very pleased with those , they said they had a nice community feel , and yet the occupants had some privacy , they thought they , and they were pleased to see how well phase one had weathered as well . |