Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swanage suffered badly during the last war , chiefly from ‘ tip-and-run ’ raids by bombers swooping in from the sea . |
| 2 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 3 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 4 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 5 | Later they were supplied by specialist brickmakers whose numbers increased greatly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | I felt I could not refuse to see my aunt , perhaps for the last time . |
| 7 | ‘ My grandfather was … always an active man , right t'more or less about the last year that he died . |
| 8 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 9 | Europe disappeared from the political imagination for the duration , not merely during the last month of the campaign , but during a large part of the long and tedious pre-campaign . |
| 10 | So Frances and Mrs Malloy — four grown-up children and seven grandchildren — danced together for the last couple of hours . |
| 11 | He parked ten yards or so after the last house , outside a wire-mesh fence in front of a late 1950s prefabricated school . |
| 12 | This takes up much of the last week or more and is written out in precise detail . |
| 13 | DOWNPATRICK races will start later than usual next Wednesday — at 4.00pm with the last race at 6.30pm . |
| 14 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 15 | It 's only within the last couple of year , and then oh no you can nae do a certain of the er it was actually our vice president at the started the campaign over in Fife , and they won through . |
| 16 | It is only within the last decade that the concepts of service , growth , competitiveness and value for money have begun to feature on accountants ' list of priorities . |
| 17 | Er er it seems that the Council have known about this for six months er and it 's only within the last week or two er that information has got out so it seems to me that that 's something that er that we ought to take an interest in . |
| 18 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 19 | The landlord may wish to have some control over the external colour scheme , but the tenant should resist a provision for the landlord 's consent to the internal colour scheme , except perhaps in the last year of the term where the tenant does not propose to seek a renewal . |
| 20 | Perhaps in the last decade of this century something of a change in attitude to sculpture is becoming evident . |
| 21 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 22 | However the quantity of remainders has increased greatly in the last decade , and titles are also being remaindered increasingly quickly to save on overheads ( even to the extent of remainder prices being agreed with dealers before publication ) . |
| 23 | This is particularly so in the last dance , when the Bride and Groom are watched by all as they solemnly walk together through the doorway into their room . |
| 24 | It has always been a busy committee but especially so in the last year or two , not least because it has taken on more responsibility . |
| 25 | ‘ God meeting us no longer as ‘ Thou ’ , but also disguised in the ‘ It ’ ; so in the last resort my question is how we are to find the ‘ Thou ’ in this ‘ It , ’ ( i.e. , fate ) . |
| 26 | So in the last half of February Fleischmann and Pons had a detector with which they could count neutrons . |
| 27 | Their total estimate is for 220,000 dwellings annually until 1991 ( and rather less in the last decade of the century ) . |
| 28 | Celtic excavations began in earnest only in the last century , and much remains untouched . |
| 29 | Although the Bluebird appeared only in the last act , Shaw 's performance was widely considered the highlight of the evening 's entertainment ; and his brisees volees — little beats of the feet as he appeared to fly through the air — amazed even the Russians , on the company 's original visit to the Maryinsky . |
| 30 | Only in the last resort , under careful international policing and after all other attempts at persuasion have been exhausted . |