Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway the workload gradually increased until I found I could n't continue any longer and have been off work for the last six months . |
| 2 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 3 | But the terms of funding for the last two years of the programme remain uncertain . |
| 4 | Oral history can be a means of helping pupils to build up a meaningful framework of chronology for the last 80 years . |
| 5 | And the company has unveiled a pre-tax loss of $2.3m for the last quarter of 1991 , much improved on last time 's $59m . |
| 6 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 7 | It was a place of work , after all , thought Peter Nicholson , and it had been his place of work for the last sixteen years . |
| 8 | From the Lamb it is on and up again to the Shoulder of Mutton for the last pint , and then the long pull up to the finish at the Dog and Gun . |
| 9 | Data used will be in the form of statistics for the last five or ten years , the examination of which should assist bankers assessing country risk . |
| 10 | The relationship between syntactic and semantic processing has been a central concern of psycholinguistics for the last two decades . |
| 11 | We say goodbye in this issue to Kevin Chevis who has beavered away in Key Publishing 's Photo Department and whose work has graced the pages of FlyPast for the last three years . |
| 12 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 13 | John , to get to the point , we 've had a bus in Portsmouth plastered with G M B slo slogans , a talking point of Portsmouth for the last fortnight . |
| 14 | A little company in Golden , Colorado has been working on its own version of Unix for the last year and half , this one called Usix . |
| 15 | ‘ Sir David has been attempting to tell his son the facts of life for the last five years . |
| 16 | BRISTOL CITY announced a loss of £742,000 for the last financial year at their annual general meeting at Ashton Gate last night . |
| 17 | On the day Khomeini flew in to Mehrabad Airport , she and Nader Nadirpur flew out of Teheran for the last time . |
| 18 | Or it was until last Friday , when British Coal locked the gates of Parkside for the last time , and over 700 men were made redundant . |
| 19 | Ms Hargreaves admitted that one potentially lucrative source of sponsorship had dried up two days previously , when two-year-old Kate stepped out of nappies for the last time . |
| 20 | In addition to her work with the Zimbabwe Foundation for Education with Production , Sr McLaughlin was a doctoral student at the University of Zimbabwe for the last three years , completing a thesis on ‘ The Catholic Church and the Zimbabwe War of Liberation ’ . |
| 21 | Indonesia : Ruslan Widjayasatra , has been under sentence of death for the last 17 years . |
| 22 | She has been a friend of WACC for the last 20 years . |
| 23 | Chief Superintendent John Goodenough has been Commander of B Division covering all of Oxfordshire for the last six years ; it 's been suggested his move signals the start of a major reorganization within the force , aimed at streamlining managerial duties . |
| 24 | Similar acrobatics came into play for the last episode of the seven-part series , a forty-five-minute Christmas special in which Frank learns to fly . |
| 25 | But Professor Cizek of Vienna has been putting these ideas into practice for the last thirty years , with the results you may see exhibited . |
| 26 | Waverley 's opening statement came from vice-chair Michele Munro , who said the trust board felt it was time to offer the benefits former Scottish Homes tenants in the Borders had enjoyed with Waverley for the last four years to Tweeddale tenants . |
| 27 | Jose-Maria Olazabal finished on a better note with a 70 and was five under par for the last three rounds , which partially made up for his first round of 76 . |
| 28 | It 's now thought a hundred and eighty people were detained by the Iraqis as they made their way to the pick up point for the last British convoy from Kuwait . |
| 29 | All the drawings were published in a magisterial catalogue by Peter Fuhring in 1987 and have been with Hazlitt for the last eighteen months . |
| 30 | In Northamptonshire new book money has failed to keep up with inflation for the last three years … and charges have had to go up . |