Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burco Ltd produces and sells two products : X and Y. During the last year 700 labour hours were worked and the operating results were as follows : |
| 2 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 3 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 4 | Therefore George prepared Lennie for heaven by describing their dream to Lennie for the last time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After a series of celebrations , it will leave Middlesbrough for the last time next Tuesday and head for Portsmouth to be de-commissioned . |
| 7 | The slightly grudging tone is revealing : the AMMA , like most other teaching unions , campaigned against the funding of schools from Whitehall during the last Parliament . |
| 8 | Apparently responding to the suggestion of a conservative shift in his policies , however , Gorbachev during the last engagement of his Byelorussian tour on Feb. 28 told a meeting in Mogilev that a centrist political coalition , avoiding the extreme positions of both radicals and hardliners , was needed to resolve the country 's problems . |
| 9 | This field either contains the PSN of the last entry in this bundle assigned on that basis ( restricting the range of the search ) or contains a negative value indicating that there are no more entries of the kind in this bundle . |
| 10 | He had to be in Amsterdam next week , he told her , and Rio in November , so they decided to get married in Brussels in the last week of October . |
| 11 | ‘ The Tasmanian Devil ’ has claimed over 350 victims in all quarters of the United States in the last year , and is noted for the savage ingenuity of his frenzied attacks . |
| 12 | Promoting Historic Scotland abroad has taken Bill to conferences and trade missions in South East Asia , Japan , Germany , Canada and the United States in the last year . |
| 13 | There had n't been a Friday or Saturday in the last year which had n't been occupied by some social gathering , where he 'd mingled with Vanessa 's friends . |
| 14 | Adam of Eynsham , the biographer of St Hugh of Lincoln , gives us a revealing description of Richard in the last summer of his life . |
| 15 | His career with us ended abruptly when he incurred a nasty knee injury in the game at Watford in the last day of 1938 and was unable to play again that season , so that there are still fans at Selhurst Park who will tell you that that loss cost Palace the single promotion place to Division |
| 16 | Five minutes later , however , she became only too aware of other members of staff who were trickling into the social club as their shift ended and suddenly , mindful of the interpretation that had been put on her being with David Markham on the last occasion they had visited the club , she finished her drink and stood up . |
| 17 | Racing : Braiswick brings era to a close : Richard Edmondson on the last victory for a racing dynasty before it becomes absorbed by the Maktoum empire |
| 18 | now , I mean you 've been very to Neil over the last year or so and I mean now it 's time to get his act together . |
| 19 | The Romans probably introduced the geared watermill and are first recorded in England during the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 20 | It was also remarkable that Germans — thought to be so liberal — now looked to England as the last refuge of Liberty ; they applauded Nelson 's recent victories — the political wheel had turned full circle . |
| 21 | THE sickening events in Romania over the past few days now leave Albania as the last resort of old-style Stalinism . |
| 22 | A few days later Keith Meerza sees Christopher for the last time . |
| 23 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 24 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 25 | The week before Western Province had won against Northerns in Cape Town with the last kick of the game . |
| 26 | ‘ Beings such as Medoc and the old Erl-King , although the Erl-King was vanquished by Cormac in the last century . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A quick break by St Albans in the last minute of the first half saw Ian Plummer score into an open net to give his side a 2–0 half time lead . |
| 29 | Karl , please do it exactly the way you did it with Hanna in the last production . ’ |
| 30 | Earthworms , for instance , ingest and excrete huge volumes of soil , as so graphically reported in a classic study by Charles Darwin in the last century . |