Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] in [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact is , I feel as if ten years worry has been taken off my shoulders in the last ten minutes , and I 'm a little light-headed about it . ’ |
| 2 | Of course , the experiment was not conclusive — as any inspection of my criteria in the last chapter would make clear . |
| 3 | Liverpool , Merseyside computer games company Psygnosis Ltd , which has quadrupled its exports in the last three years — and has taken Japan by storm , was another winner as was Ipswich , Suffolk-based BT & D Technologies Ltd , the joint optoelectronic manufacturing venture between British Telecommunications Plc , E I du Pont de Nemours & Co Inc of Wilmington , Delaware . |
| 4 | Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire-based Uniplex developer Redwood International Ltd , which reckons to have trebled its exports in the last three years to become the leading Unix-based office automation system supplier , won due recognition . |
| 5 | I would have preferred to see its replacement with a fixed housing allowance of limited term , and possibly on a more generous scale , for first time buyers only and those who have bought their houses in the last few years ; that should be coupled with the extension of housing benefit , which is limited to the rented sector , to low income home owners who have difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments . |
| 6 | I would have preferred to see its replacement with a fixed housing allowance of limited term , and possibly on a more generous scale , for first time buyers only and those who have bought their houses in the last few years ; that should be coupled with the extension of housing benefit , which is limited to the rented sector , to low-income home owners who have difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments . |
| 7 | Steffi Graf sailed through until Sanchez-Vicario whipped the rug from under her feet in the last four . |
| 8 | The efforts of African leaders to build a new political system within their countries in the last twenty-five years have not for the most part been successful . |
| 9 | ‘ We are also concerned that the North Down and Ards unit has lost half its beds in the last 10 years and recent board proposals are likely to mean another hundred closures . |
| 10 | Moore wrote that no artist has been more universally loved by her audiences in the last 30 years . |
| 11 | Other strategies which recognise the new sense and the new possibilities are the wildlife/domestic stock village systems developing in Central Africa — systems not dissimilar to the self-sufficient , low-input philosophy that Gandhi was promoting before India became a monolithic Civil Service with centralised control which destroyed village integrity : the same problem that has caused thousands of Africans to return to their villages in the last twenty years , giving up their Government jobs for which they were never paid or even got their rations . |
| 12 | He praised LASMO Pakistan for its achievements in the last year , especially the successful gas negotiations on the Kadanwari field [ see page 2 ] and the partnership with Shell in Block 36 , Northern Pakistan . |
| 13 | Gallup , for example , claimed that 37 per cent of voters made up their minds in the last week and 10 per cent decided on the day of the election . |
| 14 | Although many of the leading manufacturers , including SmithKline Beecham , have changed the formula of their drinks in the last few years so that they contain less sugar , dentists say they 're still getting far too many cases of two , three and four-year-olds with decaying milk teeth . |
| 15 | The Trustees can take justifiable pride in what has been achieved since the Library 's foundation and particularly in the dramatic expansion of its services in the last few years . |
| 16 | Even the most solid-looking dinosaurs may have changed their habits in the last few years ! |
| 17 | In London the Women 's Film and TV Network , Converse Pictures , Women in Sync and Aphra Workshops have all lost their funding and closed their doors in the last few years . |
| 18 | I think we should give Fairclough a pat on the back for his performances in the last few games . |
| 19 | Soon after this incident Richard emerges from the obscurity which had surrounded his movements in the last two years since he knelt in homage at Montmirail . |
| 20 | McGann attempted to press him as to his whereabouts in the last few days , to which Oscar asked why the hell it mattered . |
| 21 | TURKEY king Bernard Matthews has had the stuffing knocked out of his profits in the last six months . |
| 22 | And although a lot of the very late ones , in the way of paintings , I do n't care for , many of his drawings in the last period of his life were wonderful , were n't they ? |
| 23 | We do n't want to have every last stop pulled out on our behalves in a last , heroic effort to extend our lives for a few more days or weeks or months . |
| 24 | Jeffery ( 1960 , pp. 367–8 ) draws an interesting conclusion from this , which echoes one of our concerns in the last chapter : |
| 25 | In any case , as the statement of our objectives in the last section shows , we were particularly concerned with the processes and practices by which the project was implemented and enacted . |