Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the anatomical studies of late times , with very varied utilization of the microscope , and the otherwise greatly improved means of minute structural investigation , I need hardly say that , by them during the last thirty years , great parts of the science of disease have been completely transfigured . |
| 2 | We read , for instance , that Spalding ‘ has now a very neat and generally modern appearance , having more than doubled its population and buildings since 1811 , and most of its ancient houses and public buildings have been rebuilt ; many of them during the last twenty-five years ’ . |
| 3 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 4 | For inexperienced pilots flying in light winds , a good general rule is to allow a maximum of 3 miles ' glide per 1,000 feet with nothing for the last 1,000 feet . |
| 5 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 6 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 7 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 8 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 9 | You 've put up with me for the last ten days . ’ |
| 10 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 11 | We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour . |
| 12 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 13 | Tom gave a slow , satisfied nod and left them after a last reassuring pat on Faye 's shoulder . |
| 14 | People cease to be rational even when they 've known and worked with someone for the last ten years . ’ |
| 15 | The set of changes by which during the last 700 years or so , for example : /ei : / became /i : / in words like see /i : / became/ai : / in words like time / / became / / in words like bone |
| 16 | The North York Moors National Park committee has agreed to expand its Moorsbus service which for the last ten years has enabled visitors to get to the heart of the moors without congesting roads and villages with private cars . |
| 17 | Gloucester were very fortunate in getting a late penalty kick and in fact the very last kick of the game saw Tim Smith come up to get one point which for the last 35 minutes looked the most improbable result of all . |
| 18 | The purpose of his journey , which he revealed to the king 's sister , Adela , countess of Blois , was to excommunicate the king , ‘ for the injury which he had done to God and himself for the last two years and more . ’ |
| 19 | But as he drove himself into a last titanic effort to surface into the light , the pain began to divide and concentrate itself in three separate areas of his body ; his head , his right arm and his chest . |
| 20 | Harry withdrew inch by inch along the dim passageway to the end , where he could have the wall on two sides of him , and flattened himself into the last shallow embrasure , beneath the last curved corbel . |
| 21 | And now time , which in the last ten minutes seemed mysteriously to have halted , flowed again and he was standing at his bedroom window five days later watching the great ball of the sun rise out of the sea to stain the horizon and spread over the eastern sky the veins and arteries of the new day . |
| 22 | Usually it was a relief to be free of those gentle and accusing ghosts , which in the last few months had visited her less often . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
| 24 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 25 | The Seventh , however , is reined back to the point of stodginess , at least until the white-hot finale and even there one of the trumpets forgets himself in the last three bars . |
| 26 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |
| 27 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 28 | Sport & Recreation is a very small part of a huge leisure industry which over the last 20 years has seen a massive increase in both the provision of Local Authority facilities and in participation levels . |
| 29 | The innuendo in this remark proved too much for the petite figure in the front row , who during the last few words was showing signs of unmistakable distress . |
| 30 | Anita Culley , who for the last six years has co-owned Walworth Castle with her husband , said the new plans could cost around £750,000 . |