Example sentences of "last [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Vast stretches of mud , still wet from the last tide , glittered like a carpet of diamonds in the eerie light
2 Since the last Grant News was published changes and developments have affected several of the incentive schemes available for businesses from both national and EC sources .
3 However , the last West Country-hauled Waterloo to Salisbury service ran the day before with the 18.45 being headed by No. 34025 ‘ Whimple ’ .
4 And since every table in the application has triggers for primary and foreign keys and last update id and data information , he thinks 80% could go if the promised integrity enhancements features work .
5 And since every table in the application has triggers for primary and foreign keys and last update ID and data information , he thinks that 80% could go if the promised integrity enhancement features work .
6 Evan Dando and ‘ special ’ guest vocalist Juliana Hatfield are the college radio Sonny & Cher , the his'n'hers play-off sounding particularly sublime even when confined to just ‘ that bit at the end of the last chorus ’ .
7 Suddenly Douglas seemed to start cooling off , possibly because that last experience nearly ended his friendship with Lancaster .
8 Although not strictly part of the academic programme , this is considered to be an important part of the project because if you enjoy your last experience of school , then you 're more likely to return to studying something at a later stage in life .
9 Now , as he drank Robert 's champagne , and saw her , silent beside him , her head set downwards , a columbine on its stem , and as modestly inaccessible , Andrew knew that good manners and good sense told him to redress the misfortune of that last experience .
10 It had taken every ounce of courage she possessed to board the aircraft after her last experience .
11 A small shop inside the last cottage stood at the corner .
12 Before the last cottage she paused as a woman appeared in the doorway .
13 He drove a little way further on and turned using the grass verge after the last cottage .
14 The cottages were old , with small windows and in front of the last cottage sat a monkey puzzle tree .
15 ‘ Robert Neville will be a great loss to me , ’ Peter said rapidly , mentioning the last archdeacon .
16 The last Archdeacon of Woodborough , a genial and easy man , had invited all the priests of his eight deaneries to a fork supper laid on with great relish by his wife , a woman whose every fibre rejoiced at being a clergy wife .
17 In attempting to explain this last finding , Hall and Honey ( 1990 ) offered a suggestion based on the observation ( made by many but see , e.g. Schachtman , Channell , and Hall ( 1987 ) that , with prolonged conditioned suppression training , the CR grows up to a point and then begins to decline in magnitude .
18 This last finding was one that became apparent very early on in the reviews .
19 But the Special brigade should take note of one last finding .
20 This last finding excludes the possibility that the preponderance of frequent past injectors in 1988 could account for differences between 1988 and 1990 in recent injecting frequency .
21 She clambered over the side of the last truck and crouched down out of sight .
22 It would have been customary to allow the animal its own head , and to hold on to the last truck , or hitch a lift by hanging onto the end .
23 This last noise occasioned by a solid pellet of his spittle hitting a brass spittoon . )
24 Latest offering to appear from the rapidly expanding Camden ‘ lurch ’ subculture , so named after a divvy dance , although it does n't quite live up the press release 's boast of being ‘ the last noise that will cause heavens to crack and earth to rip asunder ’ ( ! ) .
25 Latest offering to appear from the rapidly expanding Camden ‘ lurch ’ subculture , so named after a divvy dance , although it does n't quite live up the press release 's boast of being ‘ the last noise that will cause heavens to crack and earth to rip asunder ’ ( ! ) .
26 But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards .
27 Up to 252 characters of text will be stored in any row and the last text character is followed by a pair of ‘ £ ’ characters .
28 To some extent , therefore , the Pactus Legis Salicae and the Lex Ribvaria resemble the Liber Constitutionum of the Burgundians issued by Sigismund in 517 , for without question this last text includes a number of royal edicts .
29 ‘ Thank God , ’ he muttered , as he started to scramble down the last foot or two to seize the halter shank that dangled so near , and yet just out of his reach .
30 This is a tricky exercise , but easier if you keep your glove at arm level , shield the bird from the wind with your body , and do n't try to jump down the last foot or two , and so jar the bird .
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