Example sentences of "[prep] the last [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I fought a number of battles but for the last 10 days before we left , because things did n't go too well , I was commanding the rearguard on the Aegean Sea . ’ |
| 2 | The second part of the plan was to turn to the Tories ' own strong issues for the last 10 days : defence , foreign policy , law and order and — hard though it is in a recession — the economy . |
| 3 | Observations for the last six days before maturity were dropped , as was the period around the October 1987 stock market crash . |
| 4 | For the last six days , their lives have been completely disrupted . |
| 5 | For the last six days they had clung to hope , but they finally felt it pulling away from them — the miracle they wanted just did not happen . |
| 6 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 7 | Freddie P. , a 53 year-old , single accountant presented in the casualty department of a local hospital complaining that , for the last four days , he had noticed beads of pus at the tip of his penis when he woke up in the morning . |
| 8 | it 's been going around and around here for the last four days er I bet it 's been coming round the block up this street about eight to ten times a day , I du n no what 's it doing , the up here |
| 9 | She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days . |
| 10 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 11 | Johnny Miller played with us for the last two days . |
| 12 | The weeks changed and for the last two days of my stay , I was the only attender . |
| 13 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 14 | Mr Major 's visit to Barcelona for the last two days of the Games will mean he has spent an astonishing 80 days out of recession gripped Britain in the 20 months since he came to power . |
| 15 | For the last two days we went on a two day expedition . |
| 16 | Michael Sibele had known for the last two days why the gang of workmen was busy outside the main gates : repairing a burst mains pipe . |
| 17 | For the last two days I 've refused to listen to him and I still think he 's out of his senses . |
| 18 | Commandant-general of the Dublin division , Connolly directed operations in the General Post Office capably and courageously , for the last two days with a shattered ankle . |
| 19 | For the last two days I have known what I lost when I left you and , while you should not have believed Havvie , I can understand why you did . |
| 20 | They were standing on the terrace just before lunch , watching the shrinking white mantle that had covered the slopes for the last two days , when a dark shape moving fast appeared further up the valley . |
| 21 | There was yet more bad news for Wednesday with stand-by striker Gordon Watson missing training for the last two days with a throat and chest virus . |
| 22 | And for the last 3 days , they 've been living on the food they 'd planned to give to the children . |
| 23 | But time and expense means I have to economise and therefore I choose to bait every other day except for the last three days when I will bait on each of them . |
| 24 | Gibeau felt that we had had too easy a time of it at Canjuers and for the last three days introduced a new punishment . |
| 25 | João went off hunting in the Alentejo with his friends for the last three days before the wedding , so Sara had little opportunity to get to know him better . |
| 26 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 27 | It was the bus that we had seen twice every day for the last three days , making its regular coastal run between Bulukumba and Makassar . |
| 28 | For the last three days ten novice sailors have been out in the Western Approaches , sailing in winds of 40 knots or more through occasional sleet showers . |
| 29 | Yes colleagues , what I will do is this , erm no one will be in this Congress for the last three days without knowing the strong feelings on the Timex issue . |
| 30 | Table I shows mean breath hydrogen concentrations for the last three days of each test period for responders and non-responders . |