Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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1 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
2 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
3 | So what has made advertising so popular in the last number of years ? |
4 | and in who 's arms you 're gon na be so darling save the last dance for me . |
5 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |
6 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |
7 | It would be immoral for me to give up on my son ; I have been through so much in the last three years , ’ she said . |
8 | It 's more the ‘ bells and whistles ’ of museum life which have grown so much in the last fifteen years , like restaurants , shops , publishing , which should be left to the private sector , and which generate important revenues for the museum . |
9 | Cairns added : ‘ I 've learned so much in the last few weeks and coping with failure and disappointment is one of them . ’ |
10 | And the thing about it is such as erm well not only Tanys Dell that biggest part of school is here the population has decreased so much in the last ten years that we having now to close schools |
11 | He had heard ( and drunk ) so much in the last few days that his mind was a haze of impressions and conjectures which refused to sort themselves out or lead in any one direction . |
12 | Neither Maxwell nor Murdoch , so prominent in the last twenty years of the period , fits the simple pattern of a non-media organization moving in or a media one moving out . |
13 | They 're only three in the last |
14 | I could make a few inspired guesses that the machinery will get , not so much cheaper , although it is getting a bit cheaper , but you 'll get more for the same money — rather like calculators _ they have n't actually got very much cheaper in the last two or three years , but you get more for your fiver . |
15 | In the coming year , the Government will also face its greatest crisis over public sector borrowing , having to borrow too much to pay the interest on its debts — the trap that caught so many in the last few years . |
16 | She had a vision of McNab calmly recording the manner of the Collector 's death , the way he had already recorded so many in the last weeks . |
17 | Some of the key questions to be addressed are : Has the UK income distribution become more or less equal over the last 10-15 years ? |
18 | Such confrontation has been less frequent in the last ten years , probably because of the decline in popular support for extreme right-wing groups . |
19 | Simon Foster , director of the SMMT , said he expected sales in the final quarter of the year to be below those in the last three months of 1988 . |
20 | He has been so busy in the last two or three months that he has been forced to temporarily stop promoting his products . |
21 | I 've been so thirsty for the last hour , I could n't be bothered to go and find a drink . |
22 | Mr Lighten ran his own practice in Grosvenor Street , Chester , and was highly successful until the last two years . |
23 | The hearing was told how Mr Lighten , who ran his own solicitors in Grosvenor Street , Chester , had been highly successful until the last two years . |
24 | The convincing wins over the Scots saw Australia take its winning sequence to a record eight tests in succession and the Wallabies have now lost only one of the last 13 internationals . |
25 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |
26 | The current Seventies retro trend is hopefully only a half-way house on the route towards a radically fresh set of fashion values , in which the tailoring disciplines so dominant over the last ten or 15 years might at last cease to be the basis of contemporary womenswear . |
27 | United , attepting to regain the leadership of the First Division , begin a demanding run of four games in seven days and Robson , who has played in only two of the last five matches because of a calf problem , is still troubled by the injury . |
28 | It has sold only two in the last four years . |
29 | In most areas , the votes of mentally handicapped people may make little difference but in very marginal constituencies , such as Brecon and Radnor , where there are approximately 250 people with a severe mental handicap and where the majority was only 56 at the last election , the voting patterns of even small populations could have a crucial effect . |
30 | I suppose TV companies could potentially show both matches if they were on different nights , but if they do n't matter who 's gon na watch two nights of essentially meaningless football ? ( this of course is only true of the last couple of rounds of qualification ) . |