Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was kept alive during the last century by a series of exotic injections . |
| 2 | Anxiety on this score became acute during the last decades of the fourth century , and the first of the fifth . |
| 3 | ‘ I rather think , ’ said the Archdeacon detachedly , ‘ that for the last couple of months she had merely visited . ’ |
| 4 | One can only speculate on the implications of that for the last years of life and , in particular , for the acceptance of tending roles . |
| 5 | ‘ Pregnant For The Last Time ’ |
| 6 | Detailed mapping and dating of geomorphological features ( Sutherland and Walker , 1984 ; Sutherland , 1984 ) indicate that part of northern Lewis was ice-free during the last glaciation and the last Scottish ice-sheet did not extend beyond the Outer Hebrides , contrary to the widespread assumption that this ice-sheet extended to the edge of the continental shelf . |
| 7 | The small independent bakers , already affected by the supermarket bakeries , see this as the last straw . |
| 8 | The tail showed more application than the top of the order , and when Lamb was run out for 113 Jarvis and Dilley batted well to put on 53 for the last wicket . |
| 9 | Burma is fortunate in that she has enough for her own needs , though she was only just able to ensure this during the last harvest . |
| 10 | THE MEN THEY COULD N'T HANG play a second show at London 's Mean Fiddler on November 30 for the last night of the venue 's tenth anniversary celebrations . |
| 11 | I continued feeding with Liquifry 1 moving up to Liquifry 2 for the last feed . |
| 12 | It was not necessary , however , to travel to one of these fashionable watering places to partake of the health-giving beverage , and ‘ taking the waters ’ at a local spring or spa ( spaw to many Northeners ) became very popular during the last century . |
| 13 | By the time Huy arrived at the house he was free of the last traces of the tormentors in his head . |
| 14 | As Dr Jaffery pointed out , the British of the last century must take much of the blame for this . |
| 15 | Few under 75 had spent any time in such homes but more than half those dying when they were aged 85 or more had spent at least some of the last year of their lives in one . |
| 16 | According to Chief Executive Derek Langslow , the use of peat contributes to " the loss of some of the last remnants of Britain 's primeval landscape , and to the destruction of a habitat which required thousands of years to develop " . |
| 17 | She was confusing her poor machine with half a row of the new pattern , when it still had some of the last row in its little cogs . |
| 18 | I did not recognize the Evans family of Penygraig as some of the last members of the old immemorial community of the hills until I had talked with Edward Thomas of Penywaun . |
| 19 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 20 | These conveyed two 760mm gauge steam locomotives , some of the last survivors of a class of some 800 engines built between 1946 and 1959 for the extensive Polish narrow gauge systems . |
| 21 | I know some of the last lot , they were all on one thing . |
| 22 | Thomas Adlercreutz of the Central Board of National Antiquities , Sweden , has pointed out an error in the guide to statutes of limitation published on page 2 of the last issue of The Art Newspaper . |
| 23 | I did a few of the last ones but . |
| 24 | What is wrong with the last sentence ? |
| 25 | There is also evidence of this in the last scene of the play . |
| 26 | i spotted this in the last number of ‘ Peacock News ’ and what 's more : one of the norwegain fans sent a fax to wilko mentioning Leeds-fan Pedersen. this is taken from a copy of the fax printed in PN : |
| 27 | In fact James Morris looked very different from the last time he had seen him , two years previously . |
| 28 | He look different from the last time me and him were mates cos he 's got older . |
| 29 | As we 've made perfectly clear in the last discussion we 've just had , no final decisions on the implementation of any variations will be taken until Council meets on the twenty fifth of February . |
| 30 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |