Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But the terms of funding for the last two years of the programme remain uncertain . |
| 3 | Oral history can be a means of helping pupils to build up a meaningful framework of chronology for the last 80 years . |
| 4 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 5 | It was a place of work , after all , thought Peter Nicholson , and it had been his place of work for the last sixteen years . |
| 6 | From the Lamb it is on and up again to the Shoulder of Mutton for the last pint , and then the long pull up to the finish at the Dog and Gun . |
| 7 | We say goodbye in this issue to Kevin Chevis who has beavered away in Key Publishing 's Photo Department and whose work has graced the pages of FlyPast for the last three years . |
| 8 | A little company in Golden , Colorado has been working on its own version of Unix for the last year and half , this one called Usix . |
| 9 | ‘ Sir David has been attempting to tell his son the facts of life for the last five years . |
| 10 | Or it was until last Friday , when British Coal locked the gates of Parkside for the last time , and over 700 men were made redundant . |
| 11 | Indonesia : Ruslan Widjayasatra , has been under sentence of death for the last 17 years . |
| 12 | Similar acrobatics came into play for the last episode of the seven-part series , a forty-five-minute Christmas special in which Frank learns to fly . |
| 13 | But Professor Cizek of Vienna has been putting these ideas into practice for the last thirty years , with the results you may see exhibited . |
| 14 | Jose-Maria Olazabal finished on a better note with a 70 and was five under par for the last three rounds , which partially made up for his first round of 76 . |
| 15 | It 's now thought a hundred and eighty people were detained by the Iraqis as they made their way to the pick up point for the last British convoy from Kuwait . |
| 16 | In Northamptonshire new book money has failed to keep up with inflation for the last three years … and charges have had to go up . |
| 17 | UK Defence Research Agency 's Ten15 Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology will also be incorporated : UI says it has been working closely with DRA for the last six months on proposals . |
| 18 | The acknowledged leader in modern first editions , which have been greatly in vogue for the last two years . |
| 19 | The current account had been in deficit for the last 17 years and by late 1990 constituted around 7 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) . |
| 20 | It seems to differ little if at all from the standard idea of the mainstream in force for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 21 | been in opposition for the last , well , for the for the for the rememberable future , |
| 22 | Gloucester again relinquished peripheral holdings in exchange for the last addition to his Yorkshire estates in March 1478 , shortly after the execution of Clarence . |
| 23 | Gloucester again relinquished peripheral holdings in exchange for the last addition to his Yorkshire estates in March 1478 , shortly after the execution of Clarence . |
| 24 | Tickets may be booked in advance for the LAST EVENING PERFORMANCES , LATE NIGHTS and WEEKENDS on the basis of payment at the time of booking . |
| 25 | His main mission in life for the last ten years , as chief executive of an organization called Business in the Community ( BitC ) , has been to cut unemployment and regenerate the inner cities . |
| 26 | He has been making his living from music for the last three years . |
| 27 | Indeed , the system has already been developed , but up until now it has been deployed on a carrier-by-carrier basis at Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and at Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , which has had a pilot Intelligent Network centre that uses the Northern and Tandem products in operation for the last year . |
| 28 | Ornithologists have been fighting to save the bird from extinction for the last 50 years . |
| 29 | The £700,000 striker missed the last two games with a badly bruised shoulder , but he has been back in training for the last couple of days and will have a late fitness check tonight . |
| 30 | We stopped in Backnong for the last time to do our souvenir shopping then at lunch time started to make our way to Trier , the most westerly town in Germany . |