Example sentences of "[conj] at the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data from children whose ears contained fluid at the final assessment or at the last assessment before they were lost to follow up were excluded . |
| 2 | Congress , I think it 's only right to draw to your attention that in item five B USDAW that at the last USDAW Conference there was a motion passed saying that there should be recognition for the independent trade union within USDAW which is ourselves , G M B Apex . |
| 3 | We knew that VAT was going to be an issue , but because everything was so vague we found it impossible to draw up detailed plans in advance , which meant that at the last minute we had to commit unbudgeted and unplanned resources to enable us to be ready for January . ’ |
| 4 | Of course I realised that at the last moment he could have been attached to another troop , but this seemed highly unlikely in view of the S.A.S. methods of training , which relied upon close personal co-operation between all ranks . |
| 5 | During the second interval Geoffrey apologised , giving the excuse that one of the battens of the hollow trees had worked itself loose and that at the last moment Bunny had required him to fix it more securely into its brace . |
| 6 | The giant database operator is extremely unforthcoming , but it 's hard to keep these things quiet and our spies tell us that at the last count — which was about a year ago , it was a three-way split between IBM Corp , down to one 3090-300S and one 3090-200 , Amdahl Corp with a 5990-1400 and two 5990-1400As , and Hitachi Data Systems Inc with three EX/100s ; at the time , there were also 350 of IBM 's disgraced RT Unix boxes , and 21 IBM System/88 fault-tolerant machines . |
| 7 | However , one has to bear in mind that at the last meeting of the West Essex Health Authority erm they are saying that they ca n't carry on treating the same amount of people erm , because they 're overspend already this year and that they will not treat these er , extra contractual referrals without prior funding being approved and that was co , that was actually stated at the meeting last week . |
| 8 | The survey showed that breeding had been so successful that there were now three times as many swans than at the last census , taken in 1983 . |
| 9 | Given that the group is expected to have made profits for the current year , the net assets will be higher than at the last account date and as the company is being purchased on a multiple of earnings we should consider stripping out the excess assets . |
| 10 | There were a number of girls in the party and at the last minute the female teacher who was to chaperone them dropped out . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the negotiations for a depôt site in Raleigh Road fell through and at the last minute , the company had to seek another site . |
| 12 | All had to agree to the investment , and at the last minute Stockport , the only council where Labour had lost overall control to a mixture of Tories and Liberals , vetoed the decision . |
| 13 | Instead he took a curtain call , and at the last minute before he was to slide behind the curtains behind the bar , he reached for the flowers thrown to him earlier and broke off some of the roses , swaggering round the circle of admirers handing out the roses to the women . |
| 14 | With sudden inspiration and at the last moment , I stripped the big bed of its blanket and pillows and stuffed them on top of the suitcases . |
| 15 | In Madrid Casado triumphed and at the last moment Communist power was broken . |
| 16 | She wrote a few words quickly on a piece of paper , and at the last moment added at the bottom : |
| 17 | How can I forget all 4′ 11″ of him who would run across the office and at the last moment hop , skip and jump and land astride his stool . |
| 18 | Around the World in 80 Days ( BBC-1 ) started by pulling eight million viewers and at the last count two weeks ago had more than 11 million . |
| 19 | Despite a resident magpie — this year 's nest building has already begun — birds visiting the garden daily include blue tit , great tit , long-tailed tit and coal tit , siskin , greenfinch , sparrows , blackbirds , thrushes , robins and at the last count 11 chaffinches . |
| 20 | And at the last Martinho participated in it . |
| 21 | It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head . |
| 22 | But at the last minute , apparently under the immediate pressure of writing the magazine version of the novel , Dostoevsky realised that ‘ FACTUAL ’ is precisely what Kirillov 's role must not , in essence and impact , be . |
| 23 | The Greens had planned to hold their 1989 rally in the Sorbonne , but at the last minute they were told they would have to go elsewhere and the only venue available at short notice was the Cité . |
| 24 | But at the last minute , self-interest takes over ; in the stark presence of the perforated piece of paper and a stub of pencil on a string , we realise that we have to live in the ‘ real world ’ , and our courage fails us . |
| 25 | Michael Stein opened his mouth to reply but at the last minute , ever the professional , bit back a pithy retort . |
| 26 | But at the last minute , she had too much on . ’ |
| 27 | The French government had argued in favour of " balanced trade " between the two blocs but at the last minute accepted this wording . |
| 28 | But at the last minute the Town board played their cards … and persuaded Gorman to stay on and take over |
| 29 | But at the last minute , following a series of defections , O'Connor was drafted into the side at full back . |
| 30 | She 's not living in Plymouth as , she was gon na be but at the last minute they found a flat for her and |