Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year .
2 Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks .
3 It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility .
4 I felt I could not refuse to see my aunt , perhaps for the last time .
5 I shall do so for the last time .
6 So Frances and Mrs Malloy — four grown-up children and seven grandchildren — danced together for the last couple of hours .
7 Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity .
8 There have been those burrowing away for the last year seeking a more sinister reasons .
9 She 's been away for the last week or so
10 They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them .
11 Thus for the last decade the report envisages that 25 per cent of new building should be for replacement ; at such a rate the demand for greenfield sites might fall .
12 Thank you Mr , a point which you 've made consistently persistently for the last hour .
13 His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time .
14 The last date was significant ; it was the Monday following the Sunday on which Inez left home for the last time .
15 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 .
16 She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's .
17 I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’
18 Yeah , well for the last year
19 I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked .
20 ‘ So you still have n't decided to give the poor guy a break , even for the last day on set ? ’
21 Maybe for the last time .
22 The feudal levy now fell into disuse : it was summoned in 1327 , and then for the last time , and probably for financial reasons , in 1385 .
23 She smiled at her stepchild and then for the last time dug her long finger sharply in Artemis 's shoulder , but Artemis did n't flinch .
24 She may even concede that hospitalisation is best , at least for the last trimester .
25 She 's been there for the last month .
26 Thus , for example , in reference resolution , if the first complete set of resolutions of the anaphors in a QLF is deemed implausible , other possible referents will be tried exhaustively for the last anaphor to be processed before any other changes are considered ; and the second QLF , if any , will not be considered at all unless no plausible set of resolutions can be derived for the first .
27 And soon we shall all meet again for the last time .
28 Colleagues , I know that people are starting to move out , and I 'm sure that it 's got nothing to do with Mick 's appearance at the rostrum , but colleagues seriously , seriously for the last couple of days we 've had a great deal of disciplines so please try and be as quiet as possible .
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