Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 2 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 3 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 4 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 5 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 6 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 7 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 8 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 9 | It was a two-storey white house nestling just within the last gentle curve up to the headland . |
| 10 | Again there was a trend to increasing size , and they ultimately became the predominant land animal , expanding territorially during the last 70 million years of Paleozoic history and preying on the abundance of insects . |
| 11 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 12 | We consider that investment in quality is as important as improving the working environment , which we 've obviously been er doing slowly over the last three years . |
| 13 | As soon as he hits the front , he does n't pull up but he relaxes , and today he was n't really doing much in the last furlong . ’ |
| 14 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 15 | A war has been quietly bubbling away over the last two or three years , possibly unnoticed by all but the keenest marine fishkeeper . |
| 16 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 17 | Norwich 's victory was a triumph for the tactical surprise sprung by manager Walker , who deployed a sweeper to curb the threat of Villa dangermen Dean Saunders and Dalian Atkinson , who have been running amok in the last two months . |
| 18 | ‘ IT 'S been disappointing coming here for the last 20 years — so let's not get carried away with this defeat ’ . |
| 19 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 20 | This chapter will show the principal trends in population distribution since the inter-war period , focusing particularly on the last couple of decades . |
| 21 | Sketchy jumping had let down Country Member on a number of occasions last season but he fenced soundly this time , quickening well between the last two to take command . |
| 22 | But what makes HP 's claims more convincing than most is the support from traditional IBM mainframe software suppliers , something HP is said to have been putting together for the last 18 months . |
| 23 | Ahead children lay like bundles of clothing on the edge of the road , only rolling away at the last hoot . |
| 24 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 25 | Cuba said that more than 2,000 of its soldiers were killed while fighting abroad over the last three decades , nearly all of them in Angola . |
| 26 | Cuba said that more than 2,000 of its soldiers were killed while fighting abroad over the last three decades , nearly all of them in Angola . |
| 27 | NIGEL MANSELL was taken to the circuit medical centre at Interlagos suffering from shock and minor injuries after tangling with his old rival , Ayrton Senna , and crashing heavily in the last minute of an incident-filled final qualifying session for today 's Brazilian Grand Prix . |
| 28 | There have been those burrowing away for the last year seeking a more sinister reasons . |
| 29 | Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel have been touring seriously for the last three years , having played to over a million people in a stint of two hundred and eighty-five concerts . |
| 30 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |