Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] last [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further 9 per cent of the people who died spent at least part of the last twelve months of their lives in such homes ; so almost a quarter , 23 per cent , were in residential homes at some stage in the last year of their lives . |
| 2 | Though The Turtles may be part of an older Manc tradition , of The Hollies , The Distractions and 10cc , Martin has no problem with the euphoria of the last 18 months . |
| 3 | I 'm pleased to say that in the course of the last six months we 've seen a strong recovery in profits . |
| 4 | Recently , a leading member of the West Midlands Area Young Conservatives has written in the national press : ‘ ln the course of the last twelve months 1 have travelled extensively throughout the area in question and , with the exception of extremely isolated individuals , have found no evidence of sympathy for the ‘ libertarian ’ position ’ ( The Observer , May 1985 ) . |
| 5 | All our work of the last eighteen months would be destroyed . |
| 6 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 7 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 8 | Barry is forty two this week , he 's still recovering from a heart attack , but the stress of the last four months have kept him smoking . |
| 9 | In addition , she has had to face the emotional stress of the last 15 months . |
| 10 | Unfortunately all the evidence of the last 12 months suggests that while Gooch 's batting ability remains invaluable , England would do better under a more imaginative skipper , if one could only be found . |
| 11 | The best performance of the last three months was the £1,066 million balance-of-payments surplus on so-called invisibles — banking , the City and insurance . |
| 12 | Lachman , who can now claim the distinction of selling his company twice and buying it back once , quipped that he has personally established a new executive benchmark , transactions per year ( TPY ) , having sold Interactive to SunSoft , Praxis to SunSelect , Interactive to Systemhouse and having bought back Lachman , all in the space of the last twelve months . |
| 13 | What he was saying made sense in some respects but she would never , ever forgive Lizzy for the charade of the last eighteen months . |
| 14 | Now this stunningly photographed and skilfully acted film by French film-maker Maurice Pialat ( who made To Our Loves and Under Satan 's Sun uses an accretion of naturalistic detail to present an emotionally restrained but utterly compelling account of the last three months of Van Gogh 's life . |
| 15 | THE miserable weather of the last two months hit ice-cream sales at Thorntons , the sweet shop chain . |
| 16 | And US Secretary of State James Baker acknowledged that his painstaking diplomacy of the last eight months could quickly unravel in a region where religion and history have fuelled five Arab-Israeli wars . |