Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most are recently converted or purpose-built institutions erected in the last 35 years . |
| 2 | So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
| 4 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
| 5 | If " adornment " is to be identified in linguistic patterns which have no semantic utility , we can point to the alliterations clustered in the last few lines . |
| 6 | The practice arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century within the ruling class . |
| 7 | This tragedy occurred in the last Grand Prix race on the old circuit and was won by James Hunt in a McLaren . |
| 8 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 9 | Two of the goals came in the last two minutes . |
| 10 | this match will go down in the records as a runaway victory for United but all the goals came in the last ten minutes … |
| 11 | The most popular period for BES investment occurs in the last three months of the tax year as investors begin to think about reducing tax liabilities ; the early autumn sees a second surge as investors can claim up to half the tax relief for the previous year on investments made before 6 October ( subject to a maximum of £5,000 ) . |
| 12 | The signs of crisis are already there with 10 goals conceded in the last five games . |
| 13 | All fixed assets shall be valued on the same basis as used in the last audited accounts and there shall be no upward revaluation of them or any of them above the value(s) used in the last audited accounts . |
| 14 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 15 | Motor racing , however , extends beyond the world of high-powered McLarens ' , Williams ' and Ferraris ' : Britain 's Derek Bell and Belgium 's Jacky Ickx have shown a domination of sports car racing in the last decade that Fangio , Lauda , Prost and co. would have been proud of in Formula One . |
| 16 | Fighting intensified in the last week of December and was reportedly especially heavy around Caxito and Ndalatando , respectively 80 km north-east and 200 km south-east of Luanda . |
| 17 | It was vessels employed in the last of these uses which were most commonly decorated with religious figures and scenes . |
| 18 | She had a horse to ride in the last . |
| 19 | ( He says : I 've seen four welders go in the last two years . |
| 20 | And only a super display from keeper David James kept the scoreline down as the Gunners romped to their third Anfield win in the last five seasons . |
| 21 | Of 130 dams constructed in the last 50 years in the Masvingo District , more than half are badly silted ( Elwell 1985 ) . |
| 22 | A catalogue of disorderly incidents have occurred at baseball matches in the last two decades . |
| 23 | Like the cross-dressing explored in the last chapter , gender inversion remains controversial because it allegedly only inverts , rather than displaces , the gender binary . |
| 24 | Many books published in the last decade or so seem to underline the importance of ‘ anticipatory grieving ’ , with the result that relatives and friends can be forced into expressing emotion they may not yet be ready to express . |
| 25 | The most egregious case occurs in the last entrée , in which |
| 26 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 27 | The vendor should try to seek agreement from the purchaser that the policies applied in the last audited accounts , will be applied to the completion accounts . |
| 28 | McManus plays in the last 32 this morning against local player David Roe after a 5-2 victory over Ulsterman Jason Prince . |
| 29 | ‘ What about new work received in the last week ? ’ |
| 30 | Just as the architecture built in the last thirty years in East and West Berlin reflects the different societies , so will what is to be built , play a part in determining the future of the united city . |