Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | half had been seriously ill through malnutrition in the last month . |
| 2 | 24 , said : ‘ They agreed to stand in as headliners at the last minute . |
| 3 | Only David Platt can rival the Sheffield Wednesday pair for caps in the last three years . |
| 4 | The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years . |
| 5 | A few minutes later , feeling decidedly the worse for wear after the last Armagnac had been downed , Mark moved unsteadily into the lift with his voluptuous mate . |
| 6 | The subjects ingested three sets of 20 markers at 24 hour intervals and a single abdominal radiograph was taken of the subject supine 24 hours after ingestion of the last set of markers . |
| 7 | Bill 's orders had been for Captive Audience to lead Shine On at racing speed over six furlongs , then for them both to stride out for home over the last two furlongs . |
| 8 | Griffin made his break for home in the last half-mile and Kiernnan , who came ninth in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic marathon , had no reply . |
| 9 | The artist was one of the so called Bevin boys , who were drafted in to work as miners during the last war . |
| 10 | Anyway the workload gradually increased until I found I could n't continue any longer and have been off work for the last six months . |
| 11 | AUSTRALIAN captain Allan Border and fast bowler Merv Hughes were reported by umpires for dissent during the last day of the drawn First Test against the West Indies in Brisbane yesterday . |
| 12 | The Grand Union canal , or the Grand Junction as the Aylesbury arm was known was one of the main routes for freight transport through England in the last century . |
| 13 | The point of introducing this distinction between determination in the last instance and the structure in dominance is to combine the idea that the practices of which society is made up are mutually determining with the ultimate dominance of the economy . |
| 14 | It is extraordinary that even though the Government found an extra £40 million for sport in the last Budget , which is near enough double the expenditure on sport year on year , Opposition Members criticise us and suggest that we are not providing the necessary resources for sport . |
| 15 | For this reason the authorities prefer to control the demand for money , and to do this the Bank of England , as lender of the last resort , alters its lending rate to the discount houses . |
| 16 | Note : Through an omission on my part the editors did not receive these notes for inclusion in the last Journal . |
| 17 | Also he s been involved in the England set up to some degree for a number of years , and was an official ‘ spy ’ or scout for England during the last 2 world cups ( time on his hands this time around ! ) . |
| 18 | May the force be with you : West Indies ' bowling heroes Curtly Ambrose ( left ) , who had match figures of 8–81 , and Courtney Walsh , whose spell of 11–7–8–4 on the last morning was decisive . |
| 19 | Such has been the rate of change in the last few years that the 1981 Census has become woefully outdated . |
| 20 | and there 's so much of the kind of change in the last few chapters leading up to this which suddenly got Jesus being spat at Saint Mark is telling us that Jesus has now been condemned . |
| 21 | I have discouraged the use of adjectives in the last two chapters but here you can see them used with superb skill . |
| 22 | One of the major findings of criminology in the last decade has been the importance of repeat victimisation as a contributor to the overall crime rate . |
| 23 | The latter reaction was clearly predominant in the writings of the men who toured the country writing reports for the Board of Agriculture in the last decade of the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | SOMERSET County Cricket Club yesterday announced it made a profit of £82,612 during the last year , although chief executive Peter Anderson warned that the county is still in debt . |
| 25 | On the other hand it has to be said that the er publicity for that does not seem to have penetrated very far amongst foreign visitors and there is n't very much evidence that foreign visitors have been put off coming here in spite of the considerable number of incidents that there have been in this country , particularly in London of course in the last year or so . |
| 26 | I mean he he spent a lot of money on the last few years on the hotel cos he had six extra rooms built on did n't he ? |
| 27 | which of course have lost a lot of money in the last year or two . |
| 28 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 29 | The value of exports in the last three months was 13 per cent higher than at the corresponding stage last year , and volume alone was 11 per cent up , while imports were 20 per cent more in value and 15 per cent up by volume . |
| 30 | When , under the hail of bombs in the last phase of the war , some Nazi cranks and fanatics sent letters to the Propaganda Ministry , extraordinary even for the Third Reich in the depths of inhumanity they plumbed , suggesting the shooting or burning of Jews in retaliation for allied air raids , it was occasionally specifically requested that the ‘ suggestions ’ be sent on to Hitler . |