Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the last year " in BNC.
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| 1 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 2 | ‘ My grandfather was … always an active man , right t'more or less about the last year that he died . |
| 3 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 4 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 5 | In the desperate circumstances of Edward 's war , especially in the last years of the reign , prayer was not always enough and the clergy had frequent occasions to become in a literal sense the church militant . |
| 6 | The landlord may wish to have some control over the external colour scheme , but the tenant should resist a provision for the landlord 's consent to the internal colour scheme , except perhaps in the last year of the term where the tenant does not propose to seek a renewal . |
| 7 | It has always been a busy committee but especially so in the last year or two , not least because it has taken on more responsibility . |
| 8 | Only in the last year or so did the attack flow more regularly to the three-quarters , to make the best use of Cooper 's thrusts from fullback quite often finished off by Timu or an exciting youngster Marc Ellis from the wings . |
| 9 | Just looked at me saw how I was , prescribed the Tamazapam tablets , and I had a terrible experience with those and that 's only in the last year ! |
| 10 | ‘ It was only in the last years that you knew us . ’ |
| 11 | Even more significant , is the fall in underlying inflation — down in the last year from 5.5 per cent to 3.25 per cent . |
| 12 | If your weight has gone up and down over the last year ( or ten years ! ) try to remember when and why it was up or down . |
| 13 | There have been those burrowing away for the last year seeking a more sinister reasons . |
| 14 | He was far too honourable to approach Asquith with a deal which could only mean the compromise of both their principles for a period of artificial power , not unlike the last years of the Coalition ; and he saw that an anti-socialist alliance could only lead , in the end , to a major Labour victory . |
| 15 | Prices have fallen steeply in the last year , and while this year 's drop will not be so dramatic , prices will continue to fall . |
| 16 | USL chairman , AT&T executive Bob Kavner , says he talked with Ray Noorda on and off over the last year about acquiring USL . |
| 17 | Before the 1980s its lowest ebb was probably during the last years of Stalin 's life when his private office and the secret police seem to have had more influence than the party . |
| 18 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 19 | up on the last year of the Labour Government . |
| 20 | Up to the last years of the eighteenth century , declining levels of employment in agriculture for the wives and daughters of the countryside could have been offset by the taking in of manufacturing work . |
| 21 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 22 | The chairman thanked all those who had worked hard and tirelessly over the last year for the benefit of the club and its members . |
| 23 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 24 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 25 | Company liquidations and personal sector mortgage defaults have both risen sharply over the last year and currently stand at record levels . |
| 26 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |
| 27 | Yeah , well for the last year |
| 28 | Foreign observers were not universally dismissive ; and the contact with Scotsmen which she had , particularly in the last year of her life in France , could have told her much , had she cared to listen . |
| 29 | ‘ Even in the last year , barriers have come tumbling down , ’ says Miss Joynson-Hicks . |
| 30 | The sudden fall of an able and apparently powerful minister such as the Duc de Choiseul in 1770 showed that even in the last years of the lethargic and indifferent Louis XV this control was real . |