Example sentences of "by last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the fleet had arrived by last night , including the joint services yacht Satquote British Defender , which was beaten for eighth place by only 37 minutes by the first of the three Finnish challengers , Martela OF . |
| 2 | Delegates agreed by 3,243,000 votes to 2,859,000 to throw out the NUM 's proposed deadline , which was overwhelmingly supported by last month 's TUC , against the wishes of the trade union leadership . |
| 3 | By last night , six oil-soaked birds had been found and taken to an RSPCA shelter at Fareham , Hampshire . |
| 4 | Leicestershire .... 26 North Midlands .... 28 WITH the County Championship due for another facelift , this winter 's finishing order will have a new significance and judging by last night 's lively encounter at Welford Road , North Midlands are well up with the situation . |
| 5 | He said that all 10,000 students would have to leave the campus with their belongings by last night . |
| 6 | Although no one had claimed responsibility for the attack by last night , it was apparently being treated as a terrorist incident by the Belgian police . |
| 7 | The French allotment was many times oversubscribed by last Monday and the price on the Parisian grey market , where shares are unoffically traded before issue , has been as high as Fr95 , compared to an issue price of Fr72 . |
| 8 | Because southern prices rose faster than those in the regions in the mid-1980s , for instance , by last year an average house in Yorkshire and Humberside , which in 1983 had been worth 69 per cent of a similar one in London , was worth only 40 per cent of one in the capital . |
| 9 | By last light the three armoured infantry companies of the Royal Scots were in defensive positions that were strongly held , although hastily prepared . |
| 10 | YOU MAY have noticed that MPs , stung into action by last week 's visit by President Roh Tae Woo , slapped in a motion deploring the South Korean habit of eating dog and chips , poodle with noodle and so on . |
| 11 | This meant that by last night individual investors had written cheques for at least £4.8billion , with counting still to finish . |
| 12 | Over in Ireland Jim Dreaper gave Carvill 's Hill his seasonal debut in the Durkan Brothers International Punchestown Chase , where he was beaten three lengths by last season 's Irish Grand National winner Maid Of Money , who was receiving 5lb and started favourite . |
| 13 | Cold wind that stirs up bitter memories Peter Hetherington reports on ambivalent feelings created by a memorial service in the town scarred by last year 's crash . |
| 14 | Mr Darman felt burnt by last year 's clean-air act . |
| 15 | By last year nine airlines were carrying more than 90% of domestic passengers in America , compared with 15 airlines in 1984 . |
| 16 | By last year they had crept back only to $113 billion , and that mostly thanks to some hefty refinancing of old high-coupon issues from the early 1980s to take advantage of lower interest rates . |
| 17 | Horse racing 's decline was deepened by last year 's collapse in bloodstock values . |
| 18 | Every so of ten the dog would break away and belt off to splash in the shallows or to investigate something smelly , thrown up by last night 's tide . |
| 19 | By last year , in a letter to CPRE , junior environment minister David Trippier said : ‘ Charges have been introduced only for the detailed conservation and environmental services which ADAS now provides ; for example , full guidance on design , planning , management and budgetary aspects of conservation projects together , if necessary , with supervision of the work concerned . ’ |
| 20 | Their reserves , stroked by last year 's president , Richard Staite , led all the way . |
| 21 | By last night , five municipalities had declared a state of emergency . |
| 22 | By last Tuesday night , the Conservative chairman , Chris Patten , presented to the Prime Minister the worst case envisaged by party researchers : 305 seats held , enough to keep power in a hung parliament . |
| 23 | By last Thursday , Mrs Thatcher may still have been unpopular but Thatcherism was not . |
| 24 | British Telecom said it had redirected 300 numbers by last night . |
| 25 | COMMERCIAL Union , whose London headquarters was devastated by last week 's IRA bomb in the City of London , yesterday raised the possibility that the insurance industry might seek Government help to cover terrorist damage on the mainland . |
| 26 | City investors accepted shares on condition that all could be placed but by last night potential buyers had been found for only about half the stake . |
| 27 | The women 's squad look likely to be headed by last year 's bronze medal pair , Fiona Freckleton and Miriam Batten , who return on Tuesday from altitude training in Mexico . |
| 28 | AN army of glaziers is at work in the City , battling to repair the thousands of windows shattered by last Friday 's IRA bomb . |
| 29 | This famous five have experienced the spectrum of emotions stirred up in many of us by last year 's frightening food-related newspaper headlines . |
| 30 | I 'd have been in it and in those bars in Gibraltar giving it the big lips by last night . ’ |