Example sentences of "[adv] for the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 2 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 3 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 4 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 5 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 6 | Marr watches ‘ Ouija Board ’ go down for the last time |
| 7 | AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool . |
| 8 | I felt I could not refuse to see my aunt , perhaps for the last time . |
| 9 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 10 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 11 | So Frances and Mrs Malloy — four grown-up children and seven grandchildren — danced together for the last couple of hours . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There have been those burrowing away for the last year seeking a more sinister reasons . |
| 14 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 15 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 16 | Thus for the last decade the report envisages that 25 per cent of new building should be for replacement ; at such a rate the demand for greenfield sites might fall . |
| 17 | Thank you Mr , a point which you 've made consistently persistently for the last hour . |
| 18 | Not for the last day of my life . |
| 19 | They had fallen behind when Simon Tracey , not for the last time , missed a corner and right-back Colin Hill poked Shane Westley 's header into his own net . |
| 20 | Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within . |
| 21 | The difference between them was that Louis-Napoleon had no intention of sliding down again and in this determination he was aided , not for the last time , by the actions of his opponents . |
| 22 | There were troubled times generally following the Wars of the Roses and the Cornish in particular , not for the last time , felt that they , a Celtic race with their own language , were treated with increasing indifference by a centralised London Government . |
| 23 | Not for the last time , he discovered , as some of his successors were later to discover , that king and pope could easily combine to ignore the archbishop . |
| 24 | But it was soon partly cancelled by the victory of the English-backed Montfortists at the battle of Auray , in southern Brittany , on 29 September 1364 , at which Charles de Blois was killed and du Guesclin , not for the last time , was taken prisoner . |
| 25 | Alexander I Philhellene had medised ( below ) in the Persian Wars ; philhellenism , not for the last time , does not imply letting Greeks have their way politically . |
| 26 | She dreamed , not for the last time , that the baby had prematurely got out , like a kangaroo embryo , and was making its way blind and white and tiny up and up the billowing creases of Mrs Orton 's purple front , as that woman talked on and on , shifting so that at every turn the climbing thing was about to be casually suffocated . |
| 27 | She should have been the original ‘ It ’ girl , Clara Bow , but the staff , not for the last time , got it wrong , and put the more vampish Theda Bara on the cover instead . |
| 28 | Not for the last time during the long process of negotiation with the GPRA , de Gaulle himself seemed depressed by the impasse . |
| 29 | And I do , and I do , I must say not for the last time during the passage of this Bill , I do feel constrain to offer my very deep sympathy to my Noble Friend on the front bench . |
| 30 | The big wage increases were led — not for the last time — by the metal workers , who concluded a new agreement late in 1962 . |