Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] last four " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
| 2 | 1990-91commitments in support of macroeconomic and structural policies totalled only SDR5,600 million , two-thirds of which had been committed in the last four months to five countries — Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland and Romania . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 5 | Johnston , saddling his 48th winner of the year , should now go on to achieve his maiden half century , and does not mind whether it happens in the last four days of turf racing or on the all-weather . |
| 6 | The Strasbourg winger missed the opening games of the new season but has featured in the last four with no ill effects from his ligament damage . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Give you an analysis of your client bank , it 'll tell you how many you 've seen this year , how many you 've seen in two years , three years , four years , and it frightens the senior associates who have got maybe eight hundred , a thousand clients , and it said , seen in the last four years , and it 's got twenty . |
| 9 | Identify the contribution to profit you have made in the last four weeks . |
| 10 | At Rackhams in Birmingham , sales have already beaten last year 's figures after the store decided to open on the last four Sundays before Christmas . |
| 11 | Richard Brucciani , chairman of the CBI Smaller Firms Council , said : ‘ This survey shows that smaller firms ’ optimism has weakened over the last four months . |
| 12 | The majority of the early tickets , those produced during the last four decades of the seventeenth century , incorporated imagery similar to that found on the printed affidavits . |
| 13 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 14 | The reduction in the and the persistent rise the depreciation charge , which is going over the last four years as we maintain a high level of capital spending . |
| 15 | Any nation has to learn democracy er , and it seems to me that all the people of the Soviet Union have shown over the last four or five years a lively interest in politics and considerable to participate in politics , er one of the problems is of course is that they 've been doing so , too much and in too disorganised a way , they 're going to have to get together . |
| 16 | The Windsors will look at the last four monarchs and their families and take a detailed look at their changing fortunes up to the present day . |
| 17 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 18 | The huge debts which Edward inherited from his father were not redeemed until the last four years of his reign when a lengthy if fragile truce with Scotland , together with reform and refinement of treasury administration , and ruthless exactions from the Contrariants and any other offenders , enabled Edward II to leave , as no subsequent medieval king was to do , a solvent crown to his successor . |
| 19 | Darron , trained as a photojournalist , has experimented over the last four years with commercially available time management systems before devising his own to suit the needs of the professional photographer . |
| 20 | More importantly it has also been the experience of the many students on whom the approach , exercises and problems have been piloted over the last four years . |
| 21 | In Cheshire , according to figures obtained by Public Eye , adult cautions have nearly trebled in the last four years . |
| 22 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 23 | You 've only been able to get through the last four years by not thinking about it . |
| 24 | The 17-year-old , who reached the quarter-finals of last week 's European Open , reeled off the last four frames and now faces New Zealander Dene O'Kane for a place in the televised stages . |
| 25 | The themes of quantitative methods , of chronology , of processes and of human activity as reviewed in the last four chapters all have amongst their adherents some who would claim that one of these four was the dominant paradigm for physical geographers . |
| 26 | Paul Proctor emerged in the last four minutes to give Peter Henerty 's men a priceless win in Lancashire . |
| 27 | Also please note that any Training Fund applications submitted within the last four weeks for courses organised by the Training Division have already been forwarded to them for attention . |
| 28 | For some reason , no one knew why , he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch . |
| 29 | The application of the material covered in the first six subjects to professional problems is tested in the last four subjects . |
| 30 | The Baxters romped to the last four 7 & 6 and meet the Sykes in today 's semi-finals . |