Example sentences of "[prep] the last [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physical relocation of S&R staff is scheduled for the last weekend in May . |
| 2 | Back at your desk , the Companion fits seamlessly with your full-size PC for the last work in time-saving efficiency . |
| 3 | Assigning a null string to stop$ prevents the space for the last entry in the array being recovered when it is emptied . |
| 4 | Hunt for the last wolf in Norway |
| 5 | Figures for the last week in November — the latest available — show about 30 cases per 100,000 population . |
| 6 | Figures for the last week in November — the latest available — show about 30 cases per 100,000 population . |
| 7 | The first flight was scheduled for the last week in January , and as luck would have it there was a wild prairie blizzard blowing across western Canada at just the wrong time . |
| 8 | London 's venerable red and cream double-deckers rumbled along the Thames embankment for the last time in 1952 . |
| 9 | For the last year of his life he suffered from myeloma , a form of bone cancer , and entered hospital for the last time in July where he made friends with another patient who , unfortunately , soon died . |
| 10 | Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within . |
| 11 | The conflict is played out for the last time in The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) , where the ballerina played by Moira Shearer initially lives unproblematically for her dancing , until she falls in love with a composer . |
| 12 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 13 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 14 | He won the US Championship for the last time in 1971 , and continued to play well into his seventies , finishing equal first at the Reykjavik open in 1984 . |
| 15 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 16 | This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List . |
| 17 | Claire Clairmont saw Lord Byron for the last time in November 1821 , when her carriage was edged off the road outside Empoli by his magnificent coach and four with its wagon train and travelling menagerie . |
| 18 | That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed . |
| 19 | Beckford was as impatient as Vathek to complete his building , but did not have a magical assistant ; the tower twice collapsed , for the last time in 1825 , and Beckford 's contractor confessed upon his death-bed that he had not provided it with foundations , although they had been specified and paid for . |
| 20 | The First Level Certificate in Commercial Studies will be offered for the last time in 1993 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 23 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 24 | This means that at the European Top 12 tournament , which started in Copenhagen yesterday afternoon , players will still be able to use many types of glue — but probably for the last time in a major European event . |
| 25 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 26 | Do n't zoom the lens in and out , either , but save this effect for the last shot in which you zoom out to a wide view of the garden again . |
| 27 | One possible solution is for the last step in the procedure to be the subject of a strict time limit . |
| 28 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 29 | Fish stocks have continued to decrease despite expenditure of over $1 billion during the last decade in building fish ladders , screens over turbine intakes and hatcheries . |
| 30 | Apart from a family holiday at Eastbourne during the last fortnight in August , he remained at Battersea Rise until he revisited his relations at Swindon from 15 February to 28 March 1896 , when he broke off his stay in order to visit Mr Noble . |