Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The House of Lords , not for the first or for the last time , held that ‘ determination ’ should not be construed as including everything which purported to be a determination but was not , and so the court was not precluded from deciding that the order of the Commission was a nullity .
2 So , the final batch of Computex machines were delivered during the last week of August to the Liverpool subcontractor , who promised to deliver the ZX machines on or before the last day of August .
3 If records are stored in the next available position in the prime data area — the consecutive spill method — but a link field is provided from the home record or from the last synonym , this avoids unnecessary head movements and cuts down the search time required for the consecutive spill techniques .
4 When an employee comes into the workplace , s/he no longer opens the paper mail first but will turn on the computer and read what messages have been left overnight or since the last viewing .
5 You must tell us about any changes which affect your policy and which have occurred either since the policy commenced or since the last renewal date .
6 You must tell us about any changes which affect your policy which have occurred either since the policy started or since the last renewal date .
7 You must tell us about any changes which affect your policy and which have occurred either since the policy started or since the last renewal date .
8 You must tell us about any changes which affect your policy and which have occurred either since the policy started or since the last renewal date .
9 You must tell us about any changes which affect your policy and which have occurred either since the policy started or since the last renewal date .
10 You must tell us about any changes which affect your policy and which have occurred either since the policy started or since the last renewal date .
11 Data from children whose ears contained fluid at the final assessment or at the last assessment before they were lost to follow up were excluded .
12 Birth timing or spacing is measured as the length of time that has elapsed between marriage and first birth , between successive births ( closed birth intervals ) and between the last birth and the observation ( open birth interval ) .
13 Listening to the news through a set of headphones is at the core of the work and for the last year there has been monitoring of television broadcasts by satellite .
14 For the first time for months , and for the last time ever , I enjoyed the feeling of happiness .
15 Thatcherism was born and during the last decade there has been record redundancies and bankruptcies within the U K as a whole .
16 Net immigration during the 1880s accounted for only about 17,000 of the total increase of about 49,000 , and during the last decade of the century all the net gain of about 24,000 people was accounted for by natural growth .
17 Over the centuries the border has moved more than a little — for instance in 1917 , Alsace was part of Germany and during the last war it was again occupied by the Germans .
18 I was sitting in a row exactly in front of Harold Wilson and his party , and during the last interval I heard him ask his neighbour whether anyone would ‘ have seen these plays right through ’ .
19 Bridgwater were runners-up in Courage Western Counties League and during the last week have beaten Weston-super-Mare 18-7 in the final of the Bass Somerset Cup , and Nuneaton , in a friendly , 38-12 .
20 But even there they were not to be left alone , and after the last campaign the conquest ended ignominiously as it had begun with the summary execution of Tupac Amaru , thirty-nine years after Atahualpa , his uncle .
21 After all these years and after the last time , I feel I must take things easy . ’
22 The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year .
23 Add together gross earnings on the eight pay-days up to and including the last pay-day before the end of the qualifying week ( QW ) and divide the total by 8 .
24 Wallace , signed for £1.2million from Southampton , last played a League game in May 1991 and until the last fortnight it seemed his future lay away from Manchester .
25 And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format .
26 The Nazi state itself was fraught with internal contradictions , and in the last resort , the Soviet Union could be relied upon not only to oppose fascist aggression , but also to thwart the potentially treacherous politics of reactionary French and British governments .
27 The degree of economic specialization might vary from one centre to another , and in the last resort it is not always easy to define what was a town .
28 In every respect Britain 's foreign policy was a failure : it failed to do anything which would strengthen the declining influence of the League of Nations ; it failed to prevent the alliance of Italy and Germany : it failed to stop German expansion , and in the last resort , it failed to prevent the agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union which neutralized the Eastern Front for nearly two years .
29 Bolton refused to lie down and in the last kick of normal time a shot from Philliskirk cannoned off the crossbar .
30 Egham threw men forward in the dying minutes in the search for an equaliser , and in the last minute , Bobby Roper caused Abingdon 's hearts to flutter when he shot narrowly wide .
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