Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 2 | Drawing attention to the cost of UN peacekeeping operations in the last 12 months , estimated to total US$3,000 million , Boutros-Ghali urged members to reflect on the organization 's financial crisis , prompted by outstanding dues totalling US$908,000,000 in regular contributions with a further US$845,000,000 due in peacekeeping contributions . |
| 3 | She found Helen in the last one of all , sitting on the floor with her head on her knees , crying as if she never intended to stop . |
| 4 | In all four countries shown in the chart , starts fell in the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 5 | For instance , the use of purveyance began to attract criticism in the last fifteen years of the reign . |
| 6 | However , we found indications in the last chapter that this could lead to a very large number of possible word strings . |
| 7 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 8 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 9 | Gaunt showed consistent loyalty to his father and , after 1377 , to his young nephew Richard II , but he lacked the charismatic authority of his father and eldest brother , and he was widely if unfairly blamed for the misfortunes that befell England in the last years of his father 's reign . |
| 10 | Foreign & Colonial launched its first scheme last month in response to public demand , while Alastair Herbert , of Invesco , says business in the last two years amounted to more than £40 million . |
| 11 | There are few stocks on the London Exchange that have beaten the performance of transaction processing software specialist Gresham Telecomputing Plc : selling for just 14 pence last June , they added ninepence in the last day 's trading before Easter , to close at 143 pence . |
| 12 | You have hoarded wealth in the last days . |
| 13 | ( William and Dorothy Wordsworth rented Racedown in the last years of the eighteenth century . ) |
| 14 | Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright . |
| 15 | Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright . |
| 16 | Second seed Amanda Grunfeld , from Manchester , joined Durie in the last 16 with a 6–1 , 6–4 victory over Banbury 's Claire Spencer , while Devon 's third-seeded Sara Gomer , runner-up for the past three years , crushed Fulham 's Claire Spencer 6–4 , 6–2 . |
| 17 | ‘ Those who might be safe would be still looking to win games in the last few weeks to improve their position . ’ |
| 18 | The club have twice narrowly avoided relegation in the last three years , and survived last season only because of a bright start , but have yet to pick up a point in the present campaign after playing five league games . |
| 19 | McCann joined Corsie in the last four yesterday when he edged out East Lothian 's Graham Robertson 7-6 , 7-6 , 1-7 , 4-7 , 7-6 . |
| 20 | By the way of contrast The Independent , building up a composite Independent person from figures supplied by the same research company ( TGI ) , announced that 23.9% of Independent readers have a household income exceeding £25,000 , 44.2% of them own a car , 31.4% own stocks and shares , 9% play cricket , 71.9% bought records in the last year and in the same period 51.2% purchased at least one pair of sports shoes while 14% spent over £50 in garden centres . |
| 21 | It is also unusual in including material about peace-keeping operations , a testing form of soldiering in which the Canadian armed forces have become experts in the last four decades . |
| 22 | The springtime air over the Arctic region has become cleaner in the last decade as a result of anti-pollution measures introduced in Europe , North America and the former Soviet Union , researchers have discovered . |
| 23 | Foetal lung maturation takes place in the last three months of pregnancy . |
| 24 | Tithonus ' most emphatic pleading for death takes place in the last stanza . |
| 25 | Mr Normandale added that there had also been a recent rise in the landings of whiting , resulting in fish landing values rising £90,000 in the last two months to £312,330 . |
| 26 | The severe storms that have affected Britain in the last few years may be linked with sea-surface temperatures which have been fractionally higher than the long-term average . |
| 27 | Also included are props Dan Jackart and Paul Szabo , who showed well in France , along with flanker Al Charron , now fully recovered after breaking ribs in the last game against the All Blacks , and centre Tom Woods , like Cardinal a 1987 World Cup starter in New Zealand . |
| 28 | As a long time drinker of real ale , who has only joined CAMRA in the last year , I found this belly-aching very annoying . |
| 29 | But City are prone to concede goals in the last quarter of an hour and bang on the 75th minute the impressive young Dodd fed a wonderful 30-yard pass to Rod Wallace , who held off two defenders to equalise . |
| 30 | Peter Baker , John Daly and Sevvy Ballesteros are all out ; Pavin , Elkington and Frost joining Monty in the last eight . |