Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , the only people I can think of who need to go as low as 850 calories a day in order to achieve a pacey weight loss on the F-Plan are small , rather sedentary women , only a few pounds overweight , and those struggling off the last few pounds of excess weight after a prolonged dieting campaign . |
| 2 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 3 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 4 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 5 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 6 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 7 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 8 | Blenching at the last few miles , shivering as sweat and dew ran down their backs , they turned into Donald Gillies 's yard at Camserney sawmill . |
| 9 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 10 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 11 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 12 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 13 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 14 | I lay there , my eyes and head swimming through the last forty years until sleep finally bailed me out . |
| 15 | Writing about the last two jobs felt strange , largely because of the muddled emotions they still arouse . |
| 16 | A new wave in British sculpture set the art world here bussing during the last two decades of the 19th century when the status quo of classically austere , cold , funerary white marble was disturbed by the throbbing emotional statements of talented young men like Alfred Gilbert ( who gave us Eros in Piccadilly Circus ) George Frampton , Alfred Drury , Hamo Thorneycroft and others . |
| 17 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 18 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 19 | The 1st was the coldest night of the month in some places , vying with the last two nights of February , with very few really frosty nights in between . |
| 20 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 21 | With the crews overlapping until the last few minutes of the 4¼-mile race , it had been a gruelling test for all . |
| 22 | Pearce 's request for new terms could have been sparked by transfer fees and wages rocketing in the last 12 months . |
| 23 | According to the last good book I read , this means that I am half way through my time travel , my travel through time . |
| 24 | Between them , the Waleses have established a way of operating over the last ten years that is unmistakably their own ; and quite unlike any other branch of the Royal Family . |
| 25 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 26 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 27 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 28 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 29 | More serious still , during his reign the lack of contact and sympathy between ruler and people , already growing during the last two decades of the life of Louis XV , became more marked . |
| 30 | The Secretaryship , possibly joint with Club Stewardship , was in the control of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Young from 1914 to 1921 at which Annual General Meeting they were presented with some silver ‘ for keeping the club going for the last six years ’ . |