Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most are recently converted or purpose-built institutions erected in the last 35 years . |
| 2 | So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
| 4 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
| 5 | If " adornment " is to be identified in linguistic patterns which have no semantic utility , we can point to the alliterations clustered in the last few lines . |
| 6 | Two of the goals came in the last two minutes . |
| 7 | this match will go down in the records as a runaway victory for United but all the goals came in the last ten minutes … |
| 8 | The signs of crisis are already there with 10 goals conceded in the last five games . |
| 9 | All fixed assets shall be valued on the same basis as used in the last audited accounts and there shall be no upward revaluation of them or any of them above the value(s) used in the last audited accounts . |
| 10 | It was vessels employed in the last of these uses which were most commonly decorated with religious figures and scenes . |
| 11 | ( He says : I 've seen four welders go in the last two years . |
| 12 | Of 130 dams constructed in the last 50 years in the Masvingo District , more than half are badly silted ( Elwell 1985 ) . |
| 13 | Many books published in the last decade or so seem to underline the importance of ‘ anticipatory grieving ’ , with the result that relatives and friends can be forced into expressing emotion they may not yet be ready to express . |
| 14 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 15 | The vendor should try to seek agreement from the purchaser that the policies applied in the last audited accounts , will be applied to the completion accounts . |
| 16 | Despite the effect of recession on sales , Mr Thin remained encouraged by Book Tokens ' performance , quoting market research which showed book tokens coming fifth in a table of ‘ vouchers bought in the last 12 months ’ , beaten only by Marks & Spencer , Boots , W H Smith and record tokens . |
| 17 | Rangers paid a heavy price for a similar gaols leak in the last round and now only a win in Turkey can take United through . |
| 18 | But all Anselm 's actions , both under Rufus and Henry I , suggest that he thought that too much importance was being attached to the disputed ceremonies , and that the real problems of religious life were at the level of personal attitudes and motives known in the last resort only to God . |
| 19 | Not for many years has the complacency of the legal profession about the state of our legal system been so severely jolted as by the series of lectures delivered in the last fortnight by Sir Leslie Scarman , a distinguished Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 20 | In a one-syllable utterance , the single syllable must have one of the five tones described in the last chapter . |
| 21 | The alert stems from a check by Boeing of its quality control records and covers 18 planes completed in the last two months . |
| 22 | Again , among Baptists , a survey of 248 new buildings erected in the last decade of the century shows that of the total , 60 per cent cost under £2,000 and 42 per cent cost under £1,000 . |
| 23 | I have reservations about Perlman and Mehta 's treatment of the Glazunov , though , which seems neither as richly romantic as Oscar Shumsky 's on Chandos , nor as glittering as Anne-Sophie Mutter 's on Erato : the other two versions to appear in the last year . |
| 24 | The discoveries made in the last 30 years about the action of drugs on the brain are important medically and philosophically . |
| 25 | The corollary of this is that any receipts received or payments made in the current financial year which relate to accruals made in the last financial year , will not affect the current year 's profit figures . |
| 26 | It is appropriate to begin with the forms of propaganda adopted to convey the particular arguments and the broader ideological perspectives analysed in the last chapter . |
| 27 | Much of our knowledge of Beaker burials derives from excavations conducted in the last century , when the principles of good archaeological practice were only just beginning to be formulated . |
| 28 | Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres ! |
| 29 | In this chapter I want to examine how some of the ideas outlined in the last chapter can redirect explorations of some Renaissance texts . |
| 30 | This was a disconcerting contrast to the chambers of sickness all about , the bodies lying in white bleached wards with pieces of themselves cut away for ever , the hidden grey figures struggling in the last embrace of life . |