Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades . |
| 2 | Much depended in the last resort , too , on the power with which the negotiators went to the negotiating table , what goodwill there was between parties and what the strength of the bargaining power was . |
| 3 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 4 | November — We are often better favoured in the last weeks of the season … ’ |
| 5 | number for Malcolm Smith , secretary of N.E.B.E. , was wrongly given in the last issue . |
| 6 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 7 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 8 | To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote . |
| 9 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |
| 10 | He is as baffled as anybody over why Pool have suddenly slumped in the last month . |
| 11 | These later changes have all occurred in the last century and the pace of change is ever quickening . |
| 12 | But the image would n't come , it was softly blotted out in this warm , rosy room with drawers and cupboards being gently closed upon the last of her possessions and Lyddy asking her which dress she wanted laid out for dinner . |
| 13 | Perhaps the majority of the " workhouses " still so called in the last third of the eighteenth century were in no real sense distinguishable from " poorhouses " , that is from places where the impotent poor , through age or infirmity , could be lodged either until death or more temporarily . |
| 14 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 15 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 16 | And er , as you 'll see , probably next week 's , I 'm not going to get to this now , er , next week , or possible the week after , even , depending on how long it takes me to get there , I will suggest to you that the revolution now taking place in behavioural science , does suggest wh what they are , and that there are in fact some deeply countering intuitive insights , erm , into this whole issue , which have only emerged in the last few years . |
| 17 | According to Prof Friel , who left home in 1968 to work in England , self-confidence among Derry people has only emerged in the last few years . |
| 18 | The use of oils in the kitchen has greatly increased in the last few decades , influenced by foreign travel and the subsequent awareness of international cuisine . |
| 19 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 20 | But it 's only happened in the last five years . |
| 21 | Our first loss , as you correctly said , was at Palace , and it was not only lost in the last minute , it was in the 94th minute of a terrible game . |
| 22 | The condition of Anne Freeman , in-patient , was ‘ much mended ’ and one of Mary Boyce 's eyes had continued to recover ; the other was much inflamed since the last report . |
| 23 | England triumphed 4–1 and Jack was only beaten in the last 90 seconds when the game was well won . |
| 24 | EDITOR 'S FOOTNOTE : You obviously did n't see our exclusive interviews with ex-Boro players Gary Pallister and Tony Mowbray , the letter to Lennie and our coverage of Boro 's FA Cup exploits all published in the last fortnight . |
| 25 | The road into Ribeira Brava has been much improved in the last few years . |
| 26 | Not only the peerage but many of the more prosperous country squires in the eighteenth century came to maintain houses in their local market towns , to serve both the needs of trade and of society ; as Joseph Seagrave remarked in 1804 , ‘ the domestic building in every part of the kingdom , is greatly improved within the last forty or fifty years ; but in few places more than Chichester ’ . |
| 27 | Significantly no places within 10 miles of London were contacted about the convention and a delegation from the old Anti-Slavery Society was only suggested at the last moment . |
| 28 | They seem to have borne fruit , since he now owns three properties , four scooters and two buses there , all acquired within the last 15 years . |
| 29 | Moments after the fighter had dipped its wings , the RAF ensign was gently lowered for the last time at Biggin Hill , Kent . |
| 30 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |