Example sentences of "[prep] the last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gloucester again relinquished peripheral holdings in exchange for the last addition to his Yorkshire estates in March 1478 , shortly after the execution of Clarence . |
| 32 | Except for the last Albanians in the Labour party , I do not believe that anyone seriously disputes that the process of competition is essential to maximise what is bought for the taxpayer . |
| 33 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 34 | The play drew standing-room-only crowds at Tokyo 's Nissay Theatre for the last part of its three-week run in January . |
| 35 | It is to the history of some of these works that one must turn for the last part of the story . |
| 36 | Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season . |
| 37 | Some approached the Santuario on their knees for the last part of the journey , saying the Rosary and imploring the Madonna 's help . |
| 38 | Brenda continues in Creole until just before " but to dance " , then switches back to London English for the last part of her turn , where she continues with her narration of actual events : " and then and then we star%ed to talk and all the rest of it and tha% " s it " — but switches to Creole for her final " punchline " : " full stop . |
| 39 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |
| 40 | This caused a delay of nine minutes , but play was able to restart for the last couple of overs . |
| 41 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 42 | For the last couple of years , Sombro has periodically disappeared . |
| 43 | For the last couple of years my Sambucus racemosa ‘ Plumosa Aurea ’ has started well in spring , but soon the leaves brown and some even fall early . |
| 44 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 45 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at stockbrokers Greenwell Montagu , said yesterday : ‘ I think the recovery has been waiting to happen for the last couple of months . |
| 46 | However , it has not officially been published for the last couple of years and the figures shown for 1986/87 are unofficial ones culled from the published NHS annual accounts ( DHSS , 1988 ) . |
| 47 | Thomasino Boyd , who joined us for the last couple of years , and before that ( in Scots accent ) Doogie Rae . |
| 48 | For the last couple of months the Moor has had problems with a split tail and fins . |
| 49 | For the last couple of weeks , I had two posters in my windows , facing on to a fairly busy street . |
| 50 | For the last couple of times , Neil Kinnock has tried to look working class and dropped his aitches , and this year Paddy Ashdown came out in favour of a well-hung parliament and dropped his trousers . |
| 51 | Quality DJs from all over the country have been coming to Middlesbrough for the last couple of years , including London DJs who are now returning through the Flying organisation . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Wearing various Squadron markings over the years with BBMF , ‘ LF ’ for the last couple of years was seen in the markings of James Nicolson 's aircraft , ‘ GN-A ’ of 249 Squadron . |
| 54 | From a technical point of view this is mainly nip and tuck stuff , but Microsoft is betting that the innovative use of existing technology will be a winner and is finally cashing in on all the application programming interfaces , dynamic data exchange , object linking and embedding facilities that it has been burying in its applications and operating systems for the last couple of years . |
| 55 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 56 | For the last couple of days I have frantically been trying to work out some sort of compromise , but whichever way I look at it , I just do not have the cash to flee the country . |
| 57 | On a more specific nature we 've sponsored a five-a-side football competition at the local Leisure Centre , for the last couple of years . |
| 58 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 59 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 60 | I 've been promising myself a drink for the last couple of hours … ’ |