Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of mine in her late thirties has spent the last five years building up a successful business . |
| 2 | Quintus has spent the last 18 months developing similar customised solutions for a clutch of customers including Intel Corp , HaL Systems , Exxon Corp and Hewlett-Packard which is setting up a worldwide internal help desk with its software . |
| 3 | Needless to say , 2:7 have got the last word on it as usual . |
| 4 | The man known as El Matador by his rivals , for his uncompromising attacking style behind the wheel , had won only three previous World Championship events this year , but those have included the last two rallies , Catalonia two weeks ago and now the RAC . |
| 5 | VIA also has to pay heavily to use the tracks and it is almost universally agreed that CP in particular has spent the last 12 years over-charging and trying to find ways of clearing the passenger trains from the path of its lucrative freights . |
| 6 | I found myself fronting various current affairs programmes , striving for impeccable balance when the wily professional politicians were at loggerheads in the studio , each trying to have the last word and score the final point . |
| 7 | Best had spent the last two weeks preaching that Bangor could score in Nicosia . |