Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the last [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | While in Ceylon we visited Allied Headquarters in Kandy , where I was taken one afternoon by Colonel Christian into the ‘ War Room ’ to hear the reports received during the last twenty-four hours , and a commentary on them by a senior staff officer . |
2 | And the salary reference is the highest salary rate you 've actually received during the last three years . |
3 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
4 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
5 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
6 | The road from Silchester to Durobrivae and includes Dorchester-on-Thames , Alchester , Towcester and Irchester , assuming there is a gap in the road yet to be filled between the last two places . |
7 | Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market . |
8 | Hence the figure of 110.97p calculated for the last published results is not strictly comparable with that ( 131.2p ) calculated for the half-yearly figures . |
9 | Which is hooey ; for when the thumping result is announced , the House burst into a blast of clapping , happy as a choral society that has just flown through the last tricky chorus . |
10 | Aim for the knoll of Little Ingleborough where a path coming up from Gaping Gill will be joined for the last easy half-mile to the summit . |
11 | The Mersey building programme had continued at an impressive rate throughout 1990 with orders recently placed for the last 14 fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) boats — due to be completed within the next 22 months . |
12 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |
13 | The position of the team test driver , which McNish has occupied for the last two years with Marlboro McLaren , can lead to a permanent seat in the team — as happened to Damon Hill , who has replaced Nigel Mansell alongside Alain Prost with Williams-Renault . |
14 | Why was Sharp dropped for the last few games , and did he play today ? |
15 | Metcalfe and Richards point out that the strategic management literature has wrestled for the last 20 years with the problems of managing for results in unstable conditions , yet the lessons which emerge are just starting to be taken on board in the public sector . |
16 | If you are one of the people who left the course at 4pm , I have enclosed a copy of the Action Plan that was considered during the last half hour . |
17 | One of the highest-ranking Mafia figures ever to testify for the authorities , Gravano claimed to having participated in 19 murders , and insisted that those committed during the last 10 years had been on the orders of Gotti . |
18 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
19 | The most recent Scandinavian and American research suggests that however long you live , serious ill-health is most likely to lie compressed into the last three or four years before death . |
20 | The peace-brokers were approached within the last two months and asked to ‘ seek the views of loyalist paramilitaries ’ on the subject . |
21 | They 'd probably be better off on the erm soft going tonight , but erm in the past few results erm it 's been evenly balanced Peter , you know , but every trap 's won in the last two or three meetings . |
22 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
23 | Its peculiar feature is that the main raw material , pig bristle , is bought from a monopoly supplier , China , and it is imports of Chinese paint brushes that have quadrupled within the last three years . |
24 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
25 | 1990-91commitments in support of macroeconomic and structural policies totalled only SDR5,600 million , two-thirds of which had been committed in the last four months to five countries — Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland and Romania . |
26 | because it 's come out a lot in this discussion that is there 's a big gap between the biological , biological and medical knowledge that 's accrued in the last ten or fifteen years , and the actual social consequences of these developments and there has n't been enough discussion and consideration of what will happen . |
27 | The property has been electrically rewired within the last twelve months . |
28 | Despite the brisk sales reported in the last few days before Christmas , December saw a small decline in retail trade compared with the previous year , according to the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , said on Tuesday that many retailers had reported a disappointing Christmas , although the results were an improvement on recent months and sales in January were expected to be up on a year ago . |
29 | ‘ I have obtained the police accident reports for each junction that you will drive through and have counted all accidents that have been reported in the last three years on any part of the junction . |
30 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |