Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] 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 | In all four countries shown in the chart , starts fell in the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 3 | For instance , the use of purveyance began to attract criticism in the last fifteen years of the reign . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You have hoarded wealth in the last days . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Foetal lung maturation takes place in the last three months of pregnancy . |
| 13 | Tithonus ' most emphatic pleading for death takes place in the last stanza . |
| 14 | G. visits a couple of pollutions which have been giving trouble in the last week or two . |
| 15 | Those who took part in the last Challenge are now trying to adjust to life , and jobs , back on dry land . |
| 16 | When the mobs rush forward in the Mall they are taking part in the last circus of a civilization that has lost faith in itself , and sold itself for a splendid triviality . |
| 17 | ‘ You said you never saw action in the last war ? ’ |
| 18 | Neither of these proposals was accepted by the men who , both in December 1909 and May 1910 , voted by two-thirds majorities to reject them.46 The talks remained in deadlock through the summer of 1910 , but following energetic efforts by the compositors and the unions representing kindred trades , pressure was mounting for a confrontation , which took place in the last weeks of the summer |
| 19 | For the 1960s had also seen the beginnings of the stylistic pluralism that has increasingly characterised music in the last quarter of the 20th century . |
| 20 | As the new term is about to start , they 've been told that 6 of their 10 business sponsors have gone bust in the last 4 months . |
| 21 | The first surveyed 2,500 individuals of whom about one third had received training in the last 3 years . |
| 22 | Indeed , in the eight events since his last victory in which he has finished third equal or better , he has never once failed to beat par in the last round . |
| 23 | Moreover , as the chart also shows , the greatest part of the improvement appears to have taken place in the last few days — or even hours — of the campaign . |
| 24 | It found that ‘ little or no investment … on renovation or renewal works had taken place in the last century ’ . |
| 25 | Have any events taken place in the last ten years which might call for a reassessment of that view or a more optimistic response in your work ? |
| 26 | In part leading to such research , in part stemming from it , radical changes in the public attitude towards such matters have taken place in the last quarter-century . |
| 27 | Now Congress , I believe that we must adapt the considerable changes which have taken place in the last few years of Tory terrorism . |
| 28 | To put the point graphically , while Marx and his nineteenth-century comrades would have no great difficulty in recognizing the economic and the political spheres today , despite the major changes that have undoubtedly taken place in the last hundred years , in the cultural-ideological sphere the opportunities for hegemonic control on a global scale have changed out of all recognition . |
| 29 | Isabelle is well supported in this by the staff and I would like to mention how much we appreciate the changes to the trading goods which have taken place in the last year . |
| 30 | According to the 1987 Conservative Election Manifesto : ‘ Home-ownership has been the great success story of housing policy in the last eight years . ’ |