Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] last " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm having a yearly detailed print done of last year , |
2 | In mid-March the Home Office was all set to go ahead with a White Paper based on last year 's policy report on cabling by Lord Hunt . |
3 | The steadying claw withdrawn at last . |
4 | The 1993 LIBF had a distinctly European feel : the number of overseas visitors compared with last year rose from 1,868 to 2,462 , an increase of 32% . |
5 | The £200 million that the government has pledged to Alvey represents 60 per cent of the £350 million total spending proposed in last year 's Alvey report . |
6 | Strong growth helped by last year 's rights issue and improved sales should mark up profits 22% to £400m , says UBS Phillips & Drew . |
7 | The new plants mentioned in last year 's report have all progressed satisfactorily . |
8 | The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has said that current proposals for a powerful new multilateral trade organisation ( MTO ) are not compatible with the goal of sustainable development set by last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
9 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
10 | Mr Gummer said the proposals resulted from the agri-environment regulation agreed in last year 's Common Agricultural Policy reform package . |
11 | He provided the first correct solution selected to last week 's query and knew that Brian Little ( Leicester ) and Steve Perryman ( Watford ) are current Football League managers who have been capped just once by England . |