Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we hit the bar as well , so it goes to the ninetieth minute does n't it , that 's what it is , a fifteen round fight goes to the last second does n't it as some boxers have found out . |
| 2 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
| 3 | DG has over the last three to four years put a good deal of energy into reducing that cost base , but now , even with a quarterly breakeven level reduced to $270m from $350m , the company is struggling to make ends meet . |
| 4 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | A catalogue of disorderly incidents have occurred at baseball matches in the last two decades . |
| 7 | In line with other insurance companies , the group announced lower bonus rates for its life assurance and pensions schemes in response to poorer investment returns over the last few years . |
| 8 | The most egregious case occurs in the last entrée , in which |
| 9 | McManus plays in the last 32 this morning against local player David Roe after a 5-2 victory over Ulsterman Jason Prince . |
| 10 | Pete Youngman from Pest Control Chester has during the last three years generated over £100,000 worth of business purely through submitting D5 leads . |
| 11 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
| 12 | The IRA 's bombing campaign cost the taxpayer a staggering £102.5m in compensation claims over the last 12 months . |
| 13 | The IRA 's bombing campaign cost the taxpayer a staggering £102.5m in compensation claims over the last 12 months . |
| 14 | In the years when no rain occurs between the last spraying of the vine and the harvest , the first sixty-five litres of the cuvée will often be tapped off and added to the taille . |
| 15 | He added that no household-name company had escaped making job cuts over the last two years . |
| 16 | We have made a survey of the overall mortgage costs in the last one , three and five years . |
| 17 | His confidence stems from the last two victories . |
| 18 | The visitors regained some respectability with Hanley and Dixon tries in the last 10 minutes . |
| 19 | Ogden and Richards , in contrast , stress that words are used to ‘ point to ’ things , and that their meaning does in the last analysis depend on the things they are used to point to , their referents ; language may be different from reality , therefore , but it nonetheless reflects it . |
| 20 | In most opinion reports from the last months of the war , there is little or no mention of the Führer and the attitudes of the population towards him . |
| 21 | ‘ A lot of shareholders have turned down generous takeover bids over the last few years and have regretted it , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 23 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 24 | Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers . |
| 25 | I 've had £230-worth of parking fines in the last couple of months ! ’ |
| 26 | Summaries of the kitchen accounts for the last ten years , for instance . ’ |
| 27 | The predominant key of the opera is D minor , a sombre key with overtones of night and death ; while the dramatic scenes in the graveyard and at Giovanni 's last supper-party , when the statue appears for the last time , are reinforced with funereal-sounding trombones . |
| 28 | If the debtor has within the last five years been bankrupt , made a composition with his creditors , been subject to a county court administration order or entered into a voluntary arrangement , particulars must be given including the name and address of the supervisor ( r6.39(2) ) . |
| 29 | FT-SE 100 futures have a maximum life of nine months , and most of the volume occurs in the last four months of the contract 's life . |
| 30 | Robson 's team have yet to concede a goal in their five World Cup qualifying matches and one more clean sheet when the whistle blows on the last , in Chorzow tomorrow evening , will put them in the finals . |