Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , we found indications in the last chapter that this could lead to a very large number of possible word strings . |
| 3 | ‘ Those who might be safe would be still looking to win games in the last few weeks to improve their position . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Despite the growing demographic and other pressures on the NHS , it has reduced the real costs of treating patients in the last ten years . |
| 9 | Many continue the tradition of a market day ; others established permanent , covered markets in the last century . |
| 10 | Writers giving talks in the last year have included such diverse characters as Shirley Conran , Barry Norman and Nigel Tranter . |
| 11 | River insects develop wings in the last stage of their life cycle , and dragonflies are known to be able to fly many miles . |
| 12 | Legislation affecting women in the last decade , whether it has been concerned with family , work or education , has been retrograde and consistently worked against them . |
| 13 | Public concern about price liberalization had led to a wave of panic buying which had emptied shops in the last days of December . |
| 14 | A Ridge had been recorded in a list of nailers in the village back in Queen Anne 's reign and the family 's connection with metal hand crafts was not broken until 1970 when John Henry Ridge retired ( at the age of ninety-one ) from his part-time occupation of making gimlets in the last of Ecclesfield 's little smithies . |
| 15 | Where is the Wagon Train that seemed permanently to be circling its wagons waiting for a drunken pioneer 's wife to have twins in the last of them ? |
| 16 | • only 8% of women who had children in the last 5 years said they would prefer a hospital consultant to provide their antenatal care . |
| 17 | To appeal to moderates who backed Republicans in the last three presidential elections and to avoid being labelled a ‘ tax-and-spend ’ Democrat , he set out a platform stressing economic growth , tax fairness , universal health care , racial harmony and a lower federal budget deficit . |