Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Newton made no mention of the future of child benefit , which the Government has frozen for each of the last two years years at £7.25 a week . |
| 2 | More than 5,000 have been locked out of St James 's Park for each of the last two games and Keegan gasped : ‘ The fans are amazing . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will state the infant mortality rate for each of the last 10 years . |
| 4 | The Company has offered shareholders the opportunity to elect to receive new ordinary shares of the Company in lieu of cash for the final dividend for each of the last three years and this opportunity will again be offered in respect of the final dividend for 1993 . |
| 5 | Karen Rowbottom from Cobham branch was cruelly deprived of the winner 's title again this year , not only in the singles but also in the doubles final — virtually identical to her results for each of the last four years . |
| 6 | Well if Mark Bosnich was the man of the moment in midweek the name on everyone 's lips during the week during sorry during the last twenty four hours has been Bobby Gould . |
| 7 | ‘ The greatest mistake any adversary could make would be to doubt America 's resolve during this period of transition , ’ Clinton said in a statement outside the Arkansas governor 's mansion in Little Rock , where he has lived for 12 of the last 14 years . |
| 8 | There was little turn , but great accuracy from the spin twins , and by capturing four wickets for 67 in the last session , England had done well . |
| 9 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 10 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 11 | If for much of the last 50 years the Russians were almost invisible , and those whom we did see were either the brilliant defectors or carefully hand-picked stars , it is hardly surprising that the British public swallowed the myth . |
| 12 | This must seem like bliss to those who were on the rack for much of the last three years . |
| 13 | For much of the last millennium , the Caucasus was nominally part of the Persian empire , although its inaccessibility made it largely independent . |
| 14 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 15 | The UK 's growth of total exports showed the slowest growth of any of 19 Industrial Market Economies for much of the last 25 years ( World Bank , 1989 ) ; however , through the mid 1980s the decline of the UK 's share of world trade was arrested at the level of about 8 per cent . |
| 16 | Most of the former National Guards were high-ranking figures from the Somoza regime who had been in prison for much of the last 10 years . |
| 17 | In my most cherished memory of him , he is standing on his chair , at a table for twenty-eight in The Last Great Australian Fish Restaurant , bopping and twisting and bellowing his way through ‘ I Ca n't Get No Satisfaction ’ , with his walkabout phone precariously jammed in the back pocket of a pair of apparently descending blue jeans . |
| 18 | It will take a supreme effort by Mr Major to pull ahead of Labour in the last 24 hours of the campaign . |
| 19 | But Bingham wants to end his managerial career on a high note and is determined to get something out of each of the last three games . |
| 20 | One can only speculate on the implications of that for the last years of life and , in particular , for the acceptance of tending roles . |
| 21 | I set out with a more or less religious belief in a Platonic , eternal world , in which mathematics shares with a beauty , shines , I 'm sorry , with a beauty of that of the last cantos of the Paradiso . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We have heard a lot of that in the last ten days , ’ she told a meeting at St John 's College , Cambridge , yesterday . |
| 23 | I am grateful to the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) for reminding us of that in the last speech from the Opposition Back Benches . |
| 24 | This led to restructuring costs , including redundancies and closures and other one-time charges totalling approximately twenty million dollars , of which approximately eighteen million dollars came in the second half and a very large portion of that in the last quarter of the year . |
| 25 | 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 " . |
| 26 | You will hear more of this in the last half hour of the conference . |
| 27 | There is also evidence of this in the last scene of the play . |
| 28 | However , the observed precession is 43.11 ( 45 ) arcsec larger ; this notation means 43.11 arcsec with an error of 45 in the last two digits , i.e. an error of ± 0.45 arcsec . |
| 29 | Wales seem ready to support a proposal by England which , if approved , could mean the end to the dominance of sevens in the last full month of the Scottish season . |
| 30 | ‘ I was sixth out of 21 in the last championships in 1987 . |