Example sentences of "[vb -s] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers . |
| 2 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
| 3 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
| 4 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
| 5 | There follows deep , sluggish water , a very serpentine course between high banks , a 2.5 mile slog to Balnaan Bridge where the flow quickens for the last 100 yds to the modern , single , wet arch . |
| 6 | Which marks for the last test give a final average of fourteen marks for So the one test is gon na give him that is n't it ? |
| 7 | The predominant key of the opera is D minor , a sombre key with overtones of night and death ; while the dramatic scenes in the graveyard and at Giovanni 's last supper-party , when the statue appears for the last time , are reinforced with funereal-sounding trombones . |
| 8 | Summaries of the kitchen accounts for the last ten years , for instance . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's now a tradition that she comes for the last week of the campaign , ’ he says . |
| 10 | After the music stops for the last time the first man to return the ladies ' shoes and collect up all his clothing is allowed to kiss every woman in the room ! |