Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd closed his eyes once in the last forty hours , and that had only been a restless doze in the back of the car on the way to the border . |
| 2 | Barely eighteen months ago after the last time , what are we doing ? |
| 3 | Variations across London often reflected the differential performance of the parties there at the last general election , and may well portend trends for the next . |
| 4 | By lunch , Lancashire , finalists twice in the last three years , were looking to captain Neil Fairbrother ( 25 not out ) for inspiration . |
| 5 | Last season 's Nat West Trophy finalists took a firm grip on the game by reducing Lancashire , finalists twice in the last three years , to 119 for three from 39 overs at lunch . |
| 6 | A further difficulty arose from the departure of a large number of middle-class families from the Belfast area to neighbouring dormitory towns , a migratory pattern in line with changes in the demography of British cities generally for the last two decades or so . |
| 7 | In Ajdabiya , too , the police intervened in civil wrongs only as a last resort : occasionally , for example , disputes over water-rights occurred between lineages , even sections of lineages , and one or other party would try to enlist the support of the police . |
| 8 | A lack of vision has pegged Rovers back in the last month , plus diligent homework by the likes of Spurs … not any fall from grace on Shearer 's part . |
| 9 | Wherever she went she carried her bag with her personal belongings down to every last rag . |
| 10 | We believe that only furniture designers who are skilled in every aspect of kitchen design and construction can ensure that your commission reflects your taste and your needs down to the last detail . |
| 11 | Attempt ‘ heroic ’ rescues only as a last resort . |
| 12 | In fact it was rather like the dark days just before the last election when prime-time television was regularly disturbed by party political broadcasts . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , England women also finished their team event with a splendid 3–0 win against Hungary and finished in fifth position , four places up on the last European Championships in Gothenburg . |
| 14 | Er normally as I said earlier payable at the age of sixty erm and the benefits are based on average salary which is the best three hundred and sixty five days out of the last ten ninety five so it 's the best year out of the last three years salary . |
| 15 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 16 | The Supreme Court 's controversial 1973 abortion ruling , for example , allows states to prohibit abortions altogether in the last trimester of pregnancy . |
| 17 | Commissioned by the Sinfonia of Scotland , Variations for a Fair Maid of Perth stitches fragments of a Reverie from the supplement to Bizet 's opera , based on Scott 's novel , through an exquisitely wrought and entrancing score and revealing its sources only in the last ‘ variation ’ . |
| 18 | Some of these pages round off the last bits of The Childhood after he had sent the bulk of it , with Frost 's approval , to Eleanor Farjeon for typing . |
| 19 | After several more sessions out in the country , Hoomey got the hand of it , and learned that , even if he could n't stop , he could steer , and that sitting on Bones 's enormous flights through the atmosphere was comparatively easy once you got used to it , far easier than poor Jazz 's problem of trying to stay aboard when Spot , cantering quite easily towards the jump , put his anchors out at the last minute and stopped dead . |
| 20 | First quarter results , while down a drastic 80% compared with the same quarter last year , at least showed a profit of $0.8 million , notching up DG 's second profitable quarter in a row and making six profitable quarters out of the last eight . |
| 21 | Garden criminals range from gnome-snaffling pranksters to professionals who swoop on country houses at night armed with a crane and a lorry , ready to snatch everything from £20,000 orchids down to the last £700 Koi carp in the pond . |
| 22 | ‘ We have seen exciting developments here in the last few years . |
| 23 | Obviously we do not want to be in two minds up to the last day and he would n't do that but there is quite a a period of discretion where the time gets shorter and er he would have to make a judgement . |
| 24 | Halifax have taken only two points out of the last 18 , and And the club 's directors will decide early next month whether or not to close down following the recent disclosure that Halifax were more than Pounds 100,000 in debt . |
| 25 | The people who 've been going through the induction courses though for the last six months or so , they 're probably up , more able to speak to it , and you 're going to be better off actually than the , the old boys if you like and girls , because it 's going to be old dogs , new tricks , but as you wo n't know any different and you do this , then you 'll have an advantage over them . |
| 26 | On all points apart from the last the union gave specific consent . |
| 27 | ‘ I used dried ones and I 'm going to put some frozen ones in at the last minute . ’ |
| 28 | There have been more cancelled and postponed competitions here in the last few years than live ones — all of which reflects badly on the BMC as controllers . |
| 29 | Mostly he is talking about a period before the war but he also refers to the uprising against the Germans in 1912 , and some events immediately after the last war , and to a man he describes as his brother . |