Example sentences of "[adv] in the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps in the last decade of this century something of a change in attitude to sculpture is becoming evident . |
| 5 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 6 | However the quantity of remainders has increased greatly in the last decade , and titles are also being remaindered increasingly quickly to save on overheads ( even to the extent of remainder prices being agreed with dealers before publication ) . |
| 7 | One was a tall , large-featured and forbidding man , dressed in black velvet , and the other was a masked lady , obviously in the last stages of bearing a child . |
| 8 | This is particularly so in the last dance , when the Bride and Groom are watched by all as they solemnly walk together through the doorway into their room . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ God meeting us no longer as ‘ Thou ’ , but also disguised in the ‘ It ’ ; so in the last resort my question is how we are to find the ‘ Thou ’ in this ‘ It , ’ ( i.e. , fate ) . |
| 11 | So in the last half of February Fleischmann and Pons had a detector with which they could count neutrons . |
| 12 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 13 | Their total estimate is for 220,000 dwellings annually until 1991 ( and rather less in the last decade of the century ) . |
| 14 | Celtic excavations began in earnest only in the last century , and much remains untouched . |
| 15 | Although the Bluebird appeared only in the last act , Shaw 's performance was widely considered the highlight of the evening 's entertainment ; and his brisees volees — little beats of the feet as he appeared to fly through the air — amazed even the Russians , on the company 's original visit to the Maryinsky . |
| 16 | Only in the last resort , under careful international policing and after all other attempts at persuasion have been exhausted . |
| 17 | The statement makes clear that sanctions will be used only in the last resort . |
| 18 | The public were a ‘ voice offstage ’ to be used by each side in their threats , but only in the last resort was public debate considered to have a useful role in decision making . |
| 19 | Resettlement outside the region should be considered only in the last resort . |
| 20 | Only in the last decades of the century was morphology replaced by paleontology as the chief focus of attention in the reconstruction of what the German morphologist Ernst Haeckel called ‘ phylogeny ’ ( evolutionary history ) . |
| 21 | It is only in the last generation that British education has begun to grasp the idea that schooling should maximise the opportunity of every individual child . |
| 22 | Similar work on the sources of the instrumental , particularly keyboard , works has begun only in the last decade or so , and is now bearing fruit in a far clearer understanding of Bach 's thoughts and intentions . |
| 23 | Both behavioural and cognitive theories are relatively recent developments , and have begun to have some impact only in the last decade or two . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ! |
| 26 | Indeed , according to Booth , it is only in the last couple of years that it has focused on product marketing . |
| 27 | What , only in the last couple of days ? |
| 28 | I was reading an article only in the last couple of days where it was talking about not particularly tourism , it was talking about a business that was in difficulty , and it said , you know , do you actually make people redundant , you do you stop advertising and you know the bottom line is you 've got to keep advertising because if you do n't tell people you 're there nobody 's going to come and buy your product , whatever it is , and you 're going to disappear anyway . |
| 29 | Yet , only in the last half of the 20th century has a select band of some 200 people been able to call themselves astronauts — ‘ travellers in interplanetary space ’ . |
| 30 | It was only in the last week or so that the two of them had fallen out . |