Example sentences of "left [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the week , only a small residue was left for next year . |
| 2 | In its relentless quest to buy up every open operating system technology that does not belong to Microsoft Corp , Novell Inc is reportedly considering buying what is left of NeXT Inc if it can come to terms with founder and controlling shareholder Steve Jobs . |
| 3 | Funnel fine powder into one tub , and reserve granules left into second tub for larger fry |
| 4 | Controversial matters , such as the Investment Services Directive , European Company Statute , the Thirteenth Company Law Directive concerning takeover and other general bids , the Tenth Company Law Directive concerning cross-border mergers between public limited companies , and the Company Taxation Directive concerning arrangements for taking losses into account , have been left until last and it is not at all certain whether all or most of these directives will be adopted by the end of 1992 . |
| 5 | Some locations present special problems for the haulier , and Belfast is one of them , so this delivery was left until last . |
| 6 | The best has been left until last however . |
| 7 | The respect the government accorded them was correspondingly limited : it was significant that among the great civil reforms of the reign that of urban government should have been left until last , and that when enacted it should have concentrated power in the hands of a very narrow élite . |
| 8 | This fool butterfly must have been a chrysallis — there are a million tortoiseshells pirouetting on the purple flowers all the warm months — a chrysallis left from last August . |
| 9 | The train was going to be late and there was nothing left in first class . |
| 10 | Never mind — there are only 310 shopping days left till next Christmas ! ’ . |
| 11 | The worst news of all is left till last . |
| 12 | I have left till last what may well be considered by book-collectors one of the most charming fields of ephemera collecting — that of the chapbook , so called from the chapman or pedlar in whose pack so many of these small publications found their way through the shires of England . |
| 13 | The terminology used in discussing literary texts has been left till last because it is the one which has traditionally been most familiar to English teachers . |
| 14 | However , if the winds are strong it is better left till last until the flysheet is pegged out . |
| 15 | She was able to roam further afield now , for Kit Everard felt he could gamble on her honour ( he hoped she was becoming attached to him too ) , and allowed her to walk on the beach by herself , and swim out to sea , even though he realised it meant she could slip out of the compound , for the sections of the stockade that he had left till last would enclose the shore . |
| 16 | But what its content should be was left at first to the experts . |