Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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1 | You trust the judgement of a man whos been proven right over the last 5 years . |
2 | There was indeed information given to Labour on this but that application proceeded by the Council and I think some of the officers have omitted that in the last few weeks . |
3 | Unlike still red wines , sparkling Champagne does not benefit from a detectable tannin content , although a little tannin will be added prior to the last racking to activate the fining agent . |
4 | Oxford have now won 16 of the last 17 races , and have taken the Beefeater Gin Trophy for the sixth year running . |
5 | They 've won 16 of the last 17 races and victory this year will pull them level with Cambridge on 69 wins apiece . |
6 | ‘ At first , I was keen just to get round but having done that for the last three years , I am now seriously looking at winning the race . ’ |
7 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
8 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
9 | If he 'd done that in the last erm , he 'd have won it . |
10 | My local primary has , in fact , at least done that in the last year , and we have n't opted out , and secondly you will remember the article in the Guardian from thirteenth of November — thirteenth of November last year — Hull Grammar School , which was one of the first ones that went independent erm have now applied for an administration order which gives them breathing space before winding up petitions can be launched . |
11 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
12 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
13 | It had been made clear in the last few days , he said , with low-paid workers in North Ayrshire having their wages cut to join a trust while senior managers at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh awarded themselves BMW cars . |
14 | In the past , some of Britain 's best known defence contracters have provided secure long term employment in the constituency , but thousands have been made redundant in the last two years . |
15 | I said well I 've seen five in the last bloody couple months . |
16 | He was conscious on admission , explained he had felt unwell for the last few days and had intended seeing a doctor today . |
17 | It would provide 20,000 temporary jobs per month , especially in rural areas at times when there was less work , and would include a low-cost housing programme , a national food programme , an urban community development programme , and a project to bring help to eastern El Salvador , which he said had suffered most in the last 10 years . |
18 | Er how often have you used that in the last year ? |
19 | Cos you get a lot of snow in Germany but we have n't had much in the last two years . |
20 | Yeah that 's and it 's got worse in the last twenty or thirty years it 's got much worse I think . |
21 | While chicken may be growing fatter , pork has become leaner during the last 10 years . |
22 | Thus six out of eight species of radiolarians that have become extinct in the last 2½ million years show a very strong correlation between their last appearance and a reversal horizon . |
23 | The song , which had become popular at the last election , went something like this : |
24 | But what has become evident in the last couple of decades in particular is the scale and pace of agricultural developments which have , and continue to , reduce both the nature conservation and landscape values of many of our upland areas . |
25 | Reductions they 've actually altered those in the last b budget , er which has benefitted particularly the business property element . |
26 | … the recent prosecution of three ex-Constables for grave offences of shopbreaking and garage-breaking of which they were found guilty at the last Assizes and sentenced to long-term imprisonment . |
27 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |
28 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
29 | He looked around the room where she had spent much of the last few years . |
30 | Jackie Aitchison , chairman of the consortium , has spent much of the last few weeks in talks with potential partners . |