Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | 24 , said : ‘ They agreed to stand in as headliners at the last minute . |
| 2 | Only David Platt can rival the Sheffield Wednesday pair for caps in the last three years . |
| 3 | The artist was one of the so called Bevin boys , who were drafted in to work as miners during the last war . |
| 4 | I have discouraged the use of adjectives in the last two chapters but here you can see them used with superb skill . |
| 5 | The value of exports in the last three months was 13 per cent higher than at the corresponding stage last year , and volume alone was 11 per cent up , while imports were 20 per cent more in value and 15 per cent up by volume . |
| 6 | When , under the hail of bombs in the last phase of the war , some Nazi cranks and fanatics sent letters to the Propaganda Ministry , extraordinary even for the Third Reich in the depths of inhumanity they plumbed , suggesting the shooting or burning of Jews in retaliation for allied air raids , it was occasionally specifically requested that the ‘ suggestions ’ be sent on to Hitler . |
| 7 | The fast-swimming Dall 's porpoise has been particularly hard hit in the North Pacific and hundreds of thousands of animals over the last 20 years have been entangled in the giant drift-nets of the salmon , squid , and tuna fisheries . |
| 8 | Coppell called a truce in the war of words with his Anfield counterpart Graeme Souness , saying : ‘ There was a flurry of words after the last game , but we both have respect for each other . |
| 9 | Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole . |
| 10 | Over the past few months , we have been following a series of sermons on the last few chapters of Paul 's letter to the church in Rome . |
| 11 | Yesterday Mr Mandela began a three-day tour of the Natal Midlands , cockpit of the virtual civil war between the ANC and Inkatha which has claimed thousands of lives over the last three years . |
| 12 | I 've heard hundreds of judges in the last few years and Mr is one of the very few who , in , in every picture delivers a very picture . |
| 13 | Excluding privatisation proceeds , the Government borrowed £5.8 billion , but its receipts included £404 million of proceeds from the last tranche of payments on the British Telecom share sale . |
| 14 | TRUE to the traditions of cup competitions , rugby union 's Pilkington version threw up a number of surprises in the last round , not least the demise of all three big West Country clubs . |
| 15 | She 's made just a handful of films in the last 20 years , but the actress says she does n't miss the silver screen — she prefers to dedicate herself to children 's charity work instead |
| 16 | NORWICH are setting themselves the toughest of targets over the last nine games of the season as they bid to become champions . |
| 17 | The number of readers of manuscripts throughout the last decade has fluctuated , never falling below 2,500 and never rising above 3,000 , without any clear trend being visible . |
| 18 | Now , the few timbers remaining after a spate of attacks in the last two months have been replaced with metal panels . |
| 19 | Rather than the last meeting , it was just a couple of days after the last meeting , so rather than wait until now , I circulated all the papers I 'd got . |
| 20 | Clarke , as the architect of the two sets of reforms under the last Government which had shown most signs of being proved right , would best be able to draw on this feeling for Centre-Right support , and would win . |
| 21 | There have been an enormous series of changes over the last ten or fifteen years , and maybe some school teachers would be glad if it slowed down a little bit to make their life a little easier , I do n't know . |
| 22 | In the gap between that first Hayward retrospective and the current show of paintings from the last decade , Riley has had significant exhibitions in many countries , including two major touring shows . |
| 23 | Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century . |
| 24 | He admits to cashflow forecasts ‘ always late , early , or wrong ’ , not warning of problems until the last minute , and having an overdraft which is higher than it should be . |
| 25 | POLICE have urged owners of mountain cycles to have their property post-coded following a spate of thefts over the last week . |
| 26 | The relationship between syntactic and semantic processing has been a central concern of psycholinguistics for the last two decades . |
| 27 | DARLINGTON 's Bank Top railway station has benefited from a major facelift costing millions of pounds over the last decade . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They seem to have been missing in action , releasing a couple of singles off the last album without providing any back-up tours to promote them . |
| 30 | I reached his side as he finished scanning the list of names on the last page . |