Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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1 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
2 | ARABELLA ASHLEY ( Portrait painters photographs , page 144 ) and her dog and best friend Clem , have been together for the last four years photographing features for Harpers & Queen . |
3 | ‘ No one knows what I 've been through in the last 12 months , ’ he said . |
4 | What we 've been through in the last few years has brought us a lot closer , and that 's part of the reason I 'm getting out of the rat race of international cricket … certainly for a few years , anyway . |
5 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |
6 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
7 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
8 | In rugby we 're down to the last eight … in the Pilkington Cup … which means Gloucester are two matches away from Twickenham … they 've got a game on their hands tomorrow though … away to first division leaders Orrell |
9 | ‘ We are probably in the last days of this authority and we want to make sure our schemes and aspirations come to fruition . ’ |
10 | Really the only reason I could think of when it 's you know it is important to put things on paper are really like the last three bits that we talked the last three things we talked about which detailed information would need to be there so people can read it when you know it 's got to get to a lot people not all in the same place at the same time or when it 's you need a copy . |
11 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
12 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
13 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
14 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
15 | Chairman before before you do finally er pack your bag and zoom off back to wherever it is you 're going , could I on behalf of the county council and all of our participants here today and those who 've been around in the last fortnight thank you and Miss Whittaker and your assistant able assistants er Mrs Binns and Dave in the programme office for the sterling work they 've done . |
16 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
17 | She 's been there for the last month . |
18 | ‘ If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again . |
19 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |
20 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
21 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
22 | In fact , we were ahead in the last game until a tactical error by one of the players ( he knows who he is ! ) caused the sad downfall . ’ |
23 | The more these techniques are made to be routine and intuitive , the greater your chance of being ahead in the last sprint . |
24 | It 's only within the last couple of year , and then oh no you can nae do a certain of the er it was actually our vice president at the started the campaign over in Fife , and they won through . |
25 | Er er it seems that the Council have known about this for six months er and it 's only within the last week or two er that information has got out so it seems to me that that 's something that er that we ought to take an interest in . |
26 | It 's only in the last ten or twenty years that people have had the time or the money to have hobbies , especially to do with music or painting . |
27 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
28 | I always was attacked on the grounds that the world I wrote about did n't exist and it 's only in the last five to ten years here in Ireland , that my work is seen to be actually true . |
29 | And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better . |
30 | Just looked at me saw how I was , prescribed the Tamazapam tablets , and I had a terrible experience with those and that 's only in the last year ! |