Example sentences of "[noun prp] in the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Adam of Eynsham , the biographer of St Hugh of Lincoln , gives us a revealing description of Richard in the last summer of his life . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | ‘ Beings such as Medoc and the old Erl-King , although the Erl-King was vanquished by Cormac in the last century . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Karl , please do it exactly the way you did it with Hanna in the last production . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | First , to identify the firms in each industrial sector and to rank the major companies at 25 year intervals between 1860 and 1960 ; second , to compile lists of owners , directors and managers in these leading firms in each sector ; third , to produce a biography of enterprise in Scotland in the last century by preparing biographies of leading businessmen for publication in a Dictionary of Scottish Business Biography . |
| 13 | The exhibition presented by the Irish women 's group focused on Irish women 's lives in Ireland and Scotland in the last century , not on ‘ promoting and peddling pro-Irish Republican publications and propaganda ’ ! |
| 14 | As Peter Medawar pointed out many years ago in his classic essay Is the scientific paper a fraud ? these essential elements in how research is done get refined out from the account as it appears in the finally published papers or scientific reviews , just as they have largely , though not entirely , been filtered from the discussion of Aplysia and LTP in the last chapter . |
| 15 | Poor , silly Ma Norris , who had never been quite right since her three sons were killed on the Somme in the last war . |
| 16 | Ordered , That Standing Order No. 125A ( Finance and Services Committee ) , agreed to on 18th July in the last Session of Parliament , be amended , in paragraph ( 2 ) , by leaving out the words eight Members ' and inserting the words nine Members ' . |
| 17 | And Hendry 's ego was further shattered by losing to John Parrott in the last frame of the Dubai Duty Free Classic final and again to him in Belgium . |
| 18 | During the terrible siege of Leningrad in the last war supplies were eventually conveyed to the starving thousands on carts from Finland across the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland ( it was fortunately an exceptionally cold winter ) — what must have been a fearsome journey . |
| 19 | Some of the best were produced at Coventry in the last century . |
| 20 | The greatest shot that ever won an Open Championship was played by Arnold Palmer at Birkdale in the last round — and there 's a plaque to commemorate it . |
| 21 | The second big battle that Russell had in his unswerving pursuit of truth was with German idealism , mainly Hegelian idealism , which by a very curious aberration from the standard empiricism of the British people , took root in Oxford and Cambridge in the last half of the last century , and was almost for a time unchallenged . |
| 22 | Therefore the poem leads us towards transcendental moments of revelation , scattered throughout , but climaxing at the Simplon Pass ( end of Book vi ) and the vision on Mount Snowdon in the last book of the poem ; in the same way Aeneas was granted a vision of the destiny of Rome in Book VI of the Aeneid , and Adam in Paradise Lost receives revelations on top of a high mountain . |
| 23 | CONGESTION Brian Oldridge responds to questions raised by Dr Tom Van Vuren in the last issue of Transport |
| 24 | His release after 2 years in Indian jails , follows the efforts of his mother at home in Bampton in Oxfordshire , who even stood against Douglas Hurd in the last election to draw attention to her son 's plight . |
| 25 | It would be more attractive and viable in the late twentieth century , therefore , at least from the perspective of the Third World states involved , than the neutralisation regimes imposed on European states such as Switzerland , Belgium and Luxembourg in the last century . |
| 26 | Despite a string of appearances from the bench it took Watson more than a year to open his account , finally breaking his duck in the 2-1 second leg win over Spora in Luxembourg in the last round . |
| 27 | In 1924 , the United States upset the heavily-favoured French 17–3 in Paris in the last rugby match in the Olympics . |
| 28 | It is impossible to know how far Lothar 's own personal interests and inclinations determined general policy , but the proceedings of the great general council of the Lateran which was to be held near the end of the pontificate were well in line with what he and others had absorbed on pastoral care at Paris in the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 29 | The Swans are playing some outstanding rugby these days and , although they were given a hard time of it against Dunvant in the last round , it is always difficult to combat gritty opponents who feel they have nothing to lose . |
| 30 | He only broke clear of Japan 's Koichi Morishita in the last mile and won in 2 hrs , 13 mins 23 secs . |