Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 2 | Injury statistics and trends show that after substantial reductions in recent decades , employees fatalities appear to be levelling off at about 1.6 per 100 000 employees and that the reported major injury rate for employees has been stable over the last three years . |
| 3 | ‘ She had been depressed during the last 18 months but I thought she was getting better . |
| 4 | In fact the screening rate of women in the excluded group has been low over the last 20 years — some 50–80 per cent of older women have never had a smear . |
| 5 | Under the management of CEO Denis Brown , and financially re-structured ( UX No 402 ) , the company has been profitable for the last six quarters and is once again in growth mode , although margins are down and international sales weak . |
| 6 | Sharon 's father has been unemployed for the last three years . |
| 7 | Staff turnover has been high in the last few years as school closure has loomed closer . |
| 8 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
| 9 | Praxis , a 165-person concern founded in 1983 , sees the acquisition as a way of growing its business , which has been flat for the last few years . |
| 10 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 11 | Mrs Abercrombie has been incontinent for the last year and is unsuitable , now , for one of our houses . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's amazing how many people who , when you catch them with their trousers down and take a formal sample , will say , ‘ It 's been beautiful for the last two years and just this , just yesterday that this thing went wrong and your chap happened to come . ’ |
| 13 | Well , it 's about why I 've been ex-directory for the last , er , twenty years . |
| 14 | It has been tough during the last two Tests , and when it gets tough you want to have your best blokes there . ’ |
| 15 | I have n't been happy for the last few months and when an old girlfriend asked me out I went along and enjoyed myself . |
| 16 | I wish that we had been able during the last few months to persuade our European colleagues that we are not arguing just for a narrow British position . |
| 17 | Both the scale and rate of change affecting the operation of the company have been dramatic over the last nine months . |
| 18 | Yet such sociological explanations for men 's reticence at reporting abnormal symptoms only serves to underline the absence of a national prostate screening campaign , particularly so since a simple blood test has been available over the last four years which can detect the likely presence of prostate cancer . |
| 19 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |
| 20 | Superb ‘ Ray has been superb in the last couple of games , and Steve came in and did a good job . |
| 21 | As she walked Maggie thought of her father whose body had been one of the last recovered . |
| 22 | One of the first things to happen after my arrival at Bourn was the phasing out of Stirling bombers , so that the one that followed me around the perimeter track must have been one of the last to operate from there . |
| 23 | The sensitive area of defence should more realistically have been one of the last spheres for the renunciation of national sovereignty , with a solid background of integrative experience and mutual trust behind it . |
| 24 | Although it may have also been one of the last , desperate attempts to keep the road open to a negotiated settlement , Ho was being accused by the French , who compared the diplomatic assurances in Paris with continuing violence in Vietnam , of duplicity ; and , ominously , by the intransigents in Hanoi , of treachery . |
| 25 | Another reason for the relatively slow acceptance of the term counterurbanization in Britain may be the fact that Britain may have been one of the last developed countries to experience the phenomenon . |
| 26 | This election must have been one of the last in Scotland where open bribery took place . |
| 27 | Suppose Delia had become friendly with Angy and gone to her flat that afternoon She 'd have been one of the last people to see her alive . ’ |
| 28 | The college had been one of the last to open its doors to women students , and she could see why . |
| 29 | The first engine rolled out of the Springfield sheds on November 4 1902 , and it would have been one of the last to use the level crossing at Thompson Street because very soon the council seem to have ordered Stivvies to replace it with a bridge . |
| 30 | Dave was off with his hernia Ross , Wayne Lindsay we 've not seen for a year , I mean I know things have been difficult for the last year |