Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we hit the bar as well , so it goes to the ninetieth minute does n't it , that 's what it is , a fifteen round fight goes to the last second does n't it as some boxers have found out . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The conditions were difficult for everyone and we took a good decision to wait until the last half-hour before doing our 12 laps . |
| 3 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 4 | Note also an error in the text relating to the last set of transactions which should relate to l months 8 to 12 , not 6 to 12 as shown in the text . |
| 5 | There were reports that Iraq had received another Russian system , the SS-21 , though specialist circles are uncertain about this and arrival was not independently confirmed — perhaps the confusion arose from the last digits of the SS-12 having been inverted . |
| 6 | The practice arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century within the ruling class . |
| 7 | The plan has emerged from a comprehensive study undertaken over the last year , covering such aspects as geology , archaeology , nature conservation , recreation , education , traffic and landscape . |
| 8 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 9 | This tragedy occurred in the last Grand Prix race on the old circuit and was won by James Hunt in a McLaren . |
| 10 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 11 | The IAC reported for the last time in January this year and , under the terms of the 1990 continuation order , the 1987 Act is due to expire on 31 March 1992 . |
| 12 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 13 | New Roof Installed Within The Last Twelve Months |
| 14 | Artemis realized this was a reference to her new stepmother , but she preferred to try and keep dropping her gathered pebbles into the centre of the splash made by the last one she had dropped . |
| 15 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
| 16 | The most popular period for BES investment occurs in the last three months of the tax year as investors begin to think about reducing tax liabilities ; the early autumn sees a second surge as investors can claim up to half the tax relief for the previous year on investments made before 6 October ( subject to a maximum of £5,000 ) . |
| 17 | The car wallowed around the last bend in the descent and cruised across in front of the school gates leaving two trails of dust behind . |
| 18 | The Secretaryship , possibly joint with Club Stewardship , was in the control of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Young from 1914 to 1921 at which Annual General Meeting they were presented with some silver ‘ for keeping the club going for the last six years ’ . |
| 19 | Motor racing , however , extends beyond the world of high-powered McLarens ' , Williams ' and Ferraris ' : Britain 's Derek Bell and Belgium 's Jacky Ickx have shown a domination of sports car racing in the last decade that Fangio , Lauda , Prost and co. would have been proud of in Formula One . |
| 20 | Fighting intensified in the last week of December and was reportedly especially heavy around Caxito and Ndalatando , respectively 80 km north-east and 200 km south-east of Luanda . |
| 21 | The apprentices from RAF Halton In Buckinghamshire have been keeping the air force flying for the last seventy two years . |
| 22 | The light rested on the last of these for some while , then moved upward , searching the end wall . |
| 23 | She had a horse to ride in the last . |
| 24 | If the hon. Gentleman examines measures of GDP per head and compares this country with France , Germany or Italy , he will find that the gap widened under the last Labour Government and has closed under the present Government . |
| 25 | The pier had knobs but was derelict , entry barred since the last fire . |
| 26 | A catalogue of disorderly incidents have occurred at baseball matches in the last two decades . |
| 27 | Like the cross-dressing explored in the last chapter , gender inversion remains controversial because it allegedly only inverts , rather than displaces , the gender binary . |
| 28 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 29 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 30 | In line with other insurance companies , the group announced lower bonus rates for its life assurance and pensions schemes in response to poorer investment returns over the last few years . |