Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades . |
| 2 | He said it was clear that the government had only joined as a last resort to try and solve the country 's economic problems . |
| 3 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 4 | Much depended in the last resort , too , on the power with which the negotiators went to the negotiating table , what goodwill there was between parties and what the strength of the bargaining power was . |
| 5 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 6 | November — We are often better favoured in the last weeks of the season … ’ |
| 7 | number for Malcolm Smith , secretary of N.E.B.E. , was wrongly given in the last issue . |
| 8 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 9 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 10 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 11 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 12 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 13 | To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote . |
| 14 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |
| 15 | He is as baffled as anybody over why Pool have suddenly slumped in the last month . |
| 16 | These later changes have all occurred in the last century and the pace of change is ever quickening . |
| 17 | But the image would n't come , it was softly blotted out in this warm , rosy room with drawers and cupboards being gently closed upon the last of her possessions and Lyddy asking her which dress she wanted laid out for dinner . |
| 18 | For products that are expensive and only used sporadically an unattractive product may be chosen if it has an exceptional performance as its handling characteristics will ensure that it is only used as a last resort and not used casually when other cheaper products would suffice . |
| 19 | As for the famous stinging tail , it 's only used as a last resort . |
| 20 | She had very nearly done a cordon bleu cookery course after she had left school , only deciding at the last minute to reinvest her time and money in the boutique instead . |
| 21 | Its use in self-defence is entirely secondary and only employed as a last resort . |
| 22 | Perhaps the majority of the " workhouses " still so called in the last third of the eighteenth century were in no real sense distinguishable from " poorhouses " , that is from places where the impotent poor , through age or infirmity , could be lodged either until death or more temporarily . |
| 23 | So desperate has the tribe 's situation become that the government Indian foundation FUNAI is attempting to contact all the remaining uncontacted Awa , an action it only takes as a last resort . |
| 24 | Her body was already responding , although her mind was still stubbornly clinging to the last few threads of resistance . |
| 25 | If you put something like N H and then O H four well the convention is that when it 's a suffix stuff a subscript and a suffix below the line there and just after it , it only applies to the last element . |
| 26 | This should only happen as a last resort in exceptional circumstances and if it does , you should take legal advice as soon as possible . |
| 27 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 28 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 29 | And er , as you 'll see , probably next week 's , I 'm not going to get to this now , er , next week , or possible the week after , even , depending on how long it takes me to get there , I will suggest to you that the revolution now taking place in behavioural science , does suggest wh what they are , and that there are in fact some deeply countering intuitive insights , erm , into this whole issue , which have only emerged in the last few years . |
| 30 | According to Prof Friel , who left home in 1968 to work in England , self-confidence among Derry people has only emerged in the last few years . |