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Example sentences of "[adv prt] for the last [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession .
2	‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked .
3	‘ Adam Reed came on for the last half hour and did well for a 16-year-old . ’
4	The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years .
5	It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly .
6	And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years .
7	Cy left the cast and Michael came in for the last two weeks of rehearsals .
8	Both players were brought in for the last six weeks of the season as McHale began to look ahead to next season when the Seasiders hope to mount a serious promotion push .
9	‘ You have n't put a mouthful in for the last ten minutes . ’
10	I 've been thinking it 's needed some more in for the last few meals .
11	The equality of opportunity and equal pay for work of equal value and all those things are are are are issues which er have been fought over for the last twenty years .
12	Nor does it rely principally on my experience in classrooms , though I have been , briefly , a secondary schoolteacher and have been visiting schools and working with young people in a variety of ways on and off for the last sixteen years .
13	Volkov had been written off for the last five years .
14	Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child .
15	Have you been er worrying about Margaret Thatcher tearing a pound note up for the last twelve thirteen years ?
16	‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time .
17	As Strachan was clearly knackered at the end of it , I thought he could have had a run out for the last 10 mins or so .
18	United had only one fit midfield man , Chris Leadbitter , after the suspension of Tony Dennis but Bailie out for the last five games proved his fitness in the reserves ' 4–1 victory over Aldershot in midweek .
19	Tomorrow look out for the last two — from Germany and Britain 's very own Silverstone .
20	‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’
21	If McHale reverts to a 4–2–4 system Thompson will push on the right flank with Mark Ash recalled to right-back after being left out for the last three games .
22	As well as contributing to Oslobodjenje Camo is editor-in-chief of Nedjelja , a weekly magazine published by the same company , but which has n't come out for the last three months .
23	And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’
24	I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years !
25	I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day .
26	It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years .
27	The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period .
28	He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days .
29	Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days .
30	To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years .