Example sentences of "until the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leave on the protective paper until the last moment to reduce scratching . |
| 2 | They get the ingredients ready but do n't cook until the last minute , preparing the second course while the first is being eaten . |
| 3 | The party is far from sure which message it wants to send to voters , and is likely to leave the choice until the last minute . |
| 4 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 5 | She suggests that in the 1850s divorce became the ‘ solution ’ to the threat of a Married Women 's Property Act ( not achieved until the last quarter of the nineteenth century ) , which would have threatened ‘ the symbolic economy that depended on and institutionalized ( such ) binary oppositions ’ . |
| 6 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 7 | Until the last two years , when the United States imposed economic sanctions , this ‘ Panama ’ did pretty well in the Noriega era . |
| 8 | This ritual was practised until the last decade or so but has apparently now ceased , which is perhaps in the best interests of the dolphins . |
| 9 | The clear message from the budget was that the next general election should be delayed until the last minute , in June 1992 . |
| 10 | He led her on right until the last minute . |
| 11 | With the crews overlapping until the last few minutes of the 4¼-mile race , it had been a gruelling test for all . |
| 12 | Mr Ferguson will give his influential captain , Bryan Robson , until the last minute to prove his fitness from a niggling calf complaint . |
| 13 | A notable feature of the campaign has been a large number of ‘ do n't knows ’ , with many people waiting until the last minute before deciding how to vote . |
| 14 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Thames Water was allowed ‘ illegal ’ pesticide levels until the last day of 2000 , while in Environment Minister Chris Patten 's own constituency Wessex Water had the same plan . |
| 17 | Endill was led to the start of the line and told to shake hands with the first teacher , then the second , then the third and all the way along the line until the last . |
| 18 | I will postpone consideration of the obligation to obey the law until the last section of this chapter . |
| 19 | This building programme from W to E meant that the Gothic E end was retained until the last moment . |
| 20 | Usually , there is no communication between the two until the last minute , and then a long-winded procedure begins in which the empty listed building must be offered to every other part of the organization ( most of which self-evidently will not want it ) ; and while the papers sit in in-trays the repair bill escalates into hundreds of thousands of pounds . |
| 21 | He did n't catch us until the last peak , Creag nan Damh , where a number of ridge-walkers were gathered , basking in the delight of the afternoon and resting on their laurels after a mammoth expedition . |
| 22 | But it does not appear to have been regularly employed in the Royal Chancery until the last quarter of the ninth century , from which time it became a fixed element in diplomas . ’ |
| 23 | Until the last century ships which only carried passengers were unknown . |
| 24 | The game was all over as a spectacle until the last two minutes when United 's corpse rose from the dead to give Horsham an awful fright . |
| 25 | In all cases , you would be wise to avoid waiting until the last minute . |
| 26 | As an added deterrent , this species usually waits until the last moment for the final clamping-down movement . |
| 27 | First , the bird must sit tight on the nest until the last moment . |
| 28 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 29 | Their local ‘ derby ’ with the Suffolk school , Framlingham , had the game going anyone 's way until the last ball . |
| 30 | Until the last century the bridge at Frodingham was only one of two across the river Hull . |