Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is only one type of personal family document which survives right through the last three centuries in really significant numbers . |
| 2 | ‘ Pat Nevin , our other scorer , has not been able to train properly for the last five weeks because of an ankle problem . ’ |
| 3 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 4 | Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years . |
| 5 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |
| 6 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 7 | His health was excellent ; only for the last four years of his life did he suffer from intermittent fever . |
| 8 | It was captain Richards who put the brakes on with some neat off-spin , only for the last ten overs to realize another 83 . |
| 9 | After the drama of the tied first Test , Australia won the second by seven wickets and West Indies the third by 222 runs ; as the fourth neared its close , West Indies appeared to have the game in their hands , only for the last Australian pair to survive for an hour and forty minutes and earn a draw ; and the final Test was won by Australia with just two wickets left . |
| 10 | It was only for the last three years of his life , from 1630 to 1633 , that he served as a country parson , as Vicar of Bemerton in Wiltshire and Canon of Salisbury . |
| 11 | The ribs should be barbecued well away from direct heat for a good two hours — begin basting with sauce only during the last 15–20 minutes of cooking , otherwise the sauce will taste bitter . |
| 12 | Only during the last 100 years has the active cultivation of aquatic plants for decoration been practised , and then widely only during the last 25 years . |
| 13 | Only during the last 100 years has the active cultivation of aquatic plants for decoration been practised , and then widely only during the last 25 years . |
| 14 | For many years the only Medau teacher in those parts , she has been particularly concerned , especially during the last few years , with classes for the elderly and handicapped , and has been a pioneer in getting Medau accepted as a suitable retraining system for stroke victims . |
| 15 | Previously a very short-legged blocky type , it is growing longer , leaner and taller , especially during the last 10–20 years in America , Australia and New Zealand , by careful and selective breeding . |
| 16 | Observers agreed that Nonconformist buildings improved with the century , especially during the last twenty-five years . |
| 17 | He used to be the crier , but had recently taken over from Fred Harrison who had proclaimed the fair annually for the last thirty years . |
| 18 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 19 | Yet the Crown derived little profit from the herds of deer which still remained in some forests : the Forest of Dean , for example , had in 1788 ‘ supplied only Four Bucks and Four Does Annually for the last Seven Years ’ . |
| 20 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 21 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 22 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 23 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 24 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 25 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 26 | So for the last three years she 's lived alone , existing on income support and other allowances totalling about £80 a week . |
| 27 | But what makes HP 's claims more convincing than most is the support from traditional IBM mainframe software suppliers , something HP is said to have been putting together for the last 18 months . |
| 28 | It would be a breach of the tacit convention on which politicians and lawyers have worked the British Constitution together for the last 200 years . |
| 29 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 30 | ARABELLA ASHLEY ( Portrait painters photographs , page 144 ) and her dog and best friend Clem , have been together for the last four years photographing features for Harpers & Queen . |