Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 2 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
| 3 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 4 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 5 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 6 | Fortunately , in-foal mares usually ‘ do ’ well and will not cost more to feed until the last three months . |
| 7 | At Rackhams in Birmingham , sales have already beaten last year 's figures after the store decided to open on the last four Sundays before Christmas . |
| 8 | I mean , now I 've got several hundred pounds resting on it if I have to walk in the last few miles I will , but er pride I 'm sure I 'll keep going . |
| 9 | They overpowered the Italian pair to win in the last few strokes |
| 10 | As harvest time was drawing to a close and autumn would soon be upon them , Tamar admitted what she had tried to deny for the last few weeks . |
| 11 | As one of the innumerable Government reports to emerge in the last 12 months confirms , the best part of one million people now earn their living , directly or indirectly , from sports and leisure orientated activities . |
| 12 | I hope the majority of regular readers of this column appreciate a broad spectrum of modern , popular music styles ; after last month 's metal mayhem , we now have Martin Rooms of Leicester to thank for requesting an article on the track One Of Us from the album ‘ The Visitors ’ by one of the purest pop acts to emerge in the last 20 years , ABBA . |
| 13 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 14 | Blackburn managed to equalise in the last five minutes and won it 3–4 in extra time . |
| 15 | He 's the second top player to go in the last few weeks . |
| 16 | The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small . |
| 17 | Kirov assessed the scant information he had managed to accumulate over the last few weeks . |
| 18 | As such there is little to report since the last European briefing . |
| 19 | In addition , the ending of the Iran/Iraq conflict has meant that there is now more oil on world markets and the price of oil has tended to fall over the last few months . |
| 20 | Defenders Andy Hill and Ian Brightwell then ran from the back to score in the last 16 minutes . |
| 21 | Farms that have ceased to exist in the last few years have been Osentons ( or Clinkham Farm ) , Whitings , Clements and Flint House . |
| 22 | For example , McCullough cites the failure of Sibelius to compose for the last 20 years of his life as in part due to his discomfort at the rise of a genre of music with which he felt no affinity . |
| 23 | You 've only been able to get through the last four years by not thinking about it . |
| 24 | It took a very short time indeed , and with every step Jenna 's trembling lessened , although she refused to think about the last few moments in the barn with Alain . |
| 25 | Jeffrey : I think that lesbians and gay men have been very creative in the sort of relationships they have tried to develop over the last fifteen years — because it 's very easy simply to copy the models which we are presented with . |
| 26 | British television was created with this idea in its heart , and has continued to develop over the last fifty years with these ideals firmly at the forefront . |
| 27 | Only for the black bean aphid Aphis fabae has it been possible to develop over the last 25 years an effective system to predict migration several months ahead to advise farmers when to spray . |
| 28 | The southward march of the ice in the Pleistocene , which is to say during the last two or three million years , forced the animal southward in search of prey . |
| 29 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 30 | There was a period when cyclists disappeared from the Meet altogether but they have started to return in the last few years and among the highlights of this year 's event — May 22–25 — will be a return to races on the old grass cycle track around the perimeter of Richmond Cricket Club 's ground and a road race for penny-farthings . |