Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] last ten [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Candidates may not leave an examination until half-an-hour after it has commenced , or within the last ten minutes , except with the permission of the senior invigilator . |
2 | Rather than will you attend Convention 1993 what about Which conventions have you attending since joining or in the last ten years 1983 [ ] 1984[] 1985[] 1986[] etc etc |
3 | Data Connection Ltd , the Enfield , Middlesex-based UK software house that for the last ten years has provided some of the technical bedrock for the big OEMs , is now making its Unix/SNA connectivity software available to large end-users . |
4 | Well do you think that the City Council is spending in an irrational and unreasonable way , currently and for the last ten years ? |
5 | We had reorganisations there , you know , every time they had a reorganisation a patch got bigger , and the workload got heavier , er , and in the last ten months of my period there , I did sort of thirty five thousand miles and a job as well , so I thought , blimey I 'm into mortality tables , if somebody else 's car had got my name written on it , so I decided to take a change . |
6 | What is there to say er what 's not been said already yesterday , today , last year 's meetings and in the last ten years . |
7 | But in the last ten years , school history here has grown far more balanced . |
8 | But in the last ten years , Britain 's butter consumption has suddenly fallen by about half , and margarine has reached a pinnacle of acceptance . |
9 | Their quality and spacing is laid down in the Building Regulations but in the last ten years difficulties have arisen over corrosion , not only in those made of mild steel but also in galvanised ties where the zinc coating is defective . |
10 | But in the last ten years , United have thrived on the back of an ambitious youth policy and the curious managerial whims of Jim McLean , Dundee United created a tangerine dream for the '80s , building an impressive and free-flowing side around players like David Narey , Paul Hegarty and Paul Sturrock . |
11 | From the end of World War II to the early 1970s there was virtually full employment in developed countries , but in the last ten years the position has changed considerably as shown in fig. 1.11 . |
12 | Compositors with a wage increase of 40 per cent did less well , while typefounders , oppressed by a tightly knit group of employers , were unable to secure a money increase and stayed for seventy years on 18s ( 90p ) a week , experiencing an evident decline in living standards not only in 1795 and 1800 – 1 , but over the last ten years of the wars . |
13 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |