Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the last [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year .
2 Well I thought well I 'll , just think about what I want with the last five pounds .
3 ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’
4 ‘ Have you noticed any change in your brother recently — say in the last few months ?
5 okay Why do you think that intra industry trade has risen , say over the last fifty years ?
6 But can you just give me , sort of , a brief overview of what 's happened to the composition of world trade right , say over the last hundred years or so .
7 If you actually look at what we 've paid for some of the players say over the last two or three years , I guess you 're looking at about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds .
8 Staff there have seen over 1,000 jobs dissapear during the last 3 years , but with millions of pounds worth of orders coming their way , tonight they 're in a celebratory mood .
9 Is the Minister aware that eight times as many houses were built under the previous Labour Government than those doctored figures show for the last financial year ?
10 Council records show in the last 18 months a total of 44 businesses have stopped trading in Darlington including Miniprint , Initial Garments and Stenga Engineering .
11 Well done Matt , well done , better doing it now then wait until the last bloody minute when we 're outside the school
12 You can also use your Card to call up the balance , print-out or order a statement , or look at the last few transactions on your account at one or more of the new AutoBanking machines we are installing up and down the country to help you .
13 To link Walker with skipper Tony Adams would also continue a partnership which has looked sound and secure in the last two England internationals .
14 Mr Smith 's warning coincided with a call by Ken Livingstone , the Labour MP for Brent East , who said on London Weekend Television 's The Walden Interview : ‘ You can be miles ahead in the polls , but when you get to the last three weeks , people think , ‘ Can I afford a Labour government ? ’
15 Quoted errors refer to the last significant digit ; the r.m.s. phase residual for the least-squares fit was 15μs .
16 I 'm thinking of buying myself some ice skates , I 've been promising myself those , just , you know over the last few years when we have had a , just a bit , mind you there was one year about six years ago were n't it , where we were
17 well you know over the last few weeks we know that er
18 If you remember at the last two sessions we 've talked about signs and symbols .
19 Er , yes , this is a follow up erm , if you remember at the last full council meeting , we recorded er proceedings for the er British Corpus , is it , Town Clerk ?
20 I think companies well in fact B and Q erm recently announced that er not recently I mean in the last eighteen months they 've started to have their er stores erm
21 And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked .
22 I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do .
23 Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ?
24 United have now taken just three points from a possible 12 and manager Alex Ferguson 's only consolation is that the defeat of rivals Aston Villa at Carrow Road means it is now Norwich who hold a twopoint advantage over them as they go into the last seven games .
25 ( He says : I 've seen four welders go in the last two years .
26 And only a super display from keeper David James kept the scoreline down as the Gunners romped to their third Anfield win in the last five seasons .
27 Finally , proceed in the last few minutes to the last two of the seven stages — IL and E.
28 I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals .
29 Before reading further , think about the last few chapters and decide what you expect their empirical studies have found .
30 WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE LAST SEVEN DAYS
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