Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | A catalogue of disorderly incidents have occurred at baseball matches in the last two decades . |
| 3 | The most egregious case occurs in the last entrée , in which |
| 4 | McManus plays in the last 32 this morning against local player David Roe after a 5-2 victory over Ulsterman Jason Prince . |
| 5 | We have made a survey of the overall mortgage costs in the last one , three and five years . |
| 6 | The visitors regained some respectability with Hanley and Dixon tries in the last 10 minutes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 9 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 10 | I 've had £230-worth of parking fines in the last couple of months ! ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maiolica has in the last few years returned to popularity ( the recent exhibition of the maiolica collections of the Metropolitan Museum was regularly crowded , to the amazement of Met officials ) , though most of its present day collectors are Italian . |
| 13 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 14 | In fact , none of the popular British names in the frequency lists in the last 75 years has had an unstressed initial syllable . |
| 15 | The win , only Eastbourne 's third in the past decade , was achieved against a team whose five finals include two cup wins in the last 12 years . |
| 16 | To give a brief example , in Nepal population pressure has in the last decade or so brought about many intensifications of cropping patterns such as the introduction of wheat as a winter crop . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |
| 18 | For the viability of towns depends in the last resort on a solid economic foundation . |
| 19 | Second question is about trainers … which trainer has won two Gold Cups in the last ten years … there 's only one … and we want the name |
| 20 | The second question is which trainer has won two Gold Cups in the last ten years |
| 21 | Its history begins in the last years of the ninth century . |