Example sentences of "[noun prp] during 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Romans probably introduced the geared watermill and are first recorded in England during the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Renault has played an important role in this change , with the popularity of Renault diesel engines reflected in the way diesel versions accounted for 16% of all Clio sales in the UK during the last quarter of 1992 . |
| 7 | Some 13,000 Soviet immigrants arrived in Israel during the last week of June , bringing the total for the month to more than 20,000 , one of the largest monthly influxes yet . |
| 8 | The pre-antibiotic irrigations used organic silver solutions , mercuric salts , potassium permanganate , and even , by a very sporting Dr Porosz of Budapest during the last century , nitric acid . |
| 9 | I wrote to Neil Kinnock during the last election , asking him to withdraw the remark that gays and lesbians were losing votes on the doorsteps of the pensioners . |
| 10 | The introduction of cheap plaits from China and Japan during the last quarter of the nineteenth century hit the industry hard just as fashion started to favour smaller hats and ones made from other materials . |
| 11 | Born Edith Keefe in Londonderry , Northern Ireland , after her first husband died she married a lance corporal in the Military Foot Police , in Southampton during the last year of the First World War . |
| 12 | As papal legate in France during the last quarter of the eleventh century , he was the most energetic agent of the new policy of active centralized papal control of the Church . |
| 13 | When unemployment has risen by 800,000 in Britain during the last year , when 50 per cent . |
| 14 | In parts of London during the last century , for example , it was certainly not safe to walk the streets at night , with violence and robbery commonplace , as the stories of Charles Dickens illustrate . |
| 15 | The whingeing , as they see it , that takes place in the British press angers many West Indians , as Viv Richards demonstrated with his outburst in Antigua during the last Test of 1989–90 . |