Example sentences of "last [noun sg] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus floating has often been adopted as a last resort when a system of fixed exchange rates has collapsed , as was the case in 1973 . |
| 2 | Indeed we saw in the last chapter that a contract for the sale of future goods is quite possible . |
| 3 | A failure against West indies that summer , an under-achiever in New Zealand last winter and a failure against Pakistan last summer , Hick came to India with a Test record of just 307 runs from 11 matches and 17 innings . |
| 4 | The Age Concern England Executive Committee requested at its last meeting that a copy of the Briefing Paper on Council Tax be circulated to Chairs of Age Concern organisations and this will be included with News for Chairmen this month . |
| 5 | Thus six out of eight species of radiolarians that have become extinct in the last 2½ million years show a very strong correlation between their last appearance and a reversal horizon . |
| 6 | Many did so think , and fear ; and saw nothing in the religious experience — or that to which it pointed — of the last decade and a half to cause them to think otherwise . |
| 7 | If there were , then the last decade and a half of selectionist-neutralist controversies over all these different non-definitional issues could have been settled in advance without recourse to empirical data , in an armchair with a scientist 's glossary and a logician 's truth table . |
| 8 | There are those who argue that it was the desperate attempts made by the Soviets in the last decade and a half to match the US , especially in Star Wars research and development , which brought about the economic collapse that dismantled the communist monolith . |
| 9 | The final miles back to Staveley are not very pleasant as they involve road walking , particularly the last mile and a half which is along a main road . |
| 10 | A SHOPKEEPER was fighting for his life in hospital last night after a gas blast hurled him from his bed into the street . |
| 11 | A MURDER inquiry was underway in last night after a man was stabbed outside a pub . |
| 12 | A BABY girl died and two other badly-burned youngsters were fighting for their lives last night after a TV drowned out the sounds of a blaze ripping through a council house . |
| 13 | GIGANTIC waves of oil 20 ft high were being whipped by gale force winds towards Europe 's finest beaches last night after a tanker broke up off the Spanish coast . |
| 14 | POLICE surrounded a top-security jail last night after a warder was taken hostage by prisoners . |
| 15 | ONE PERSON died and four others were fighting for their lives last night after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong . |
| 16 | AN American Airlines Boeing 767 en route from Glasgow to Chicago was grounded at a Canadian air base last night after a passenger made a bomb threat on board . |
| 17 | A BABY girl had a miraculous escape last night after a firework exploded and sprayed red hot fragments into her face . |
| 18 | RESIDENTS of a sheltered housing unit in Wallasey were evacuated last night after a fire broke out in a communal kitchen . |
| 19 | However , it emerged last night that a reporter from London Weekend Television unwittingly tipped off residents about the raid when he phoned contacts on the estate to ask if there had been a raid — before it had actually happened . |
| 20 | ABOND Corporation director confirmed in Perth last night that a man helping the Australian Federal Police with inquiries about alleged bugging on Mr Robert Holmes a Court 's phones was a former Bond employee . |
| 21 | Cleveland police confirmed last night that a number of youths were detained after a stolen car crashed in Castlereagh Road , Stockton , yesterday . |
| 22 | RAMBO superstar Sylvester Stallone feared last night that a killer hurricane had flattened his FIVE luxury homes on a Hawaiian island . |
| 23 | FOLLOWING our revelation yesterday of claims about Di and her friend Major James Hewitt , it was reported last night that a photo exists of him stripped to the waist as he chats to the princess . |
| 24 | A spokeswoman for Mr Settelen 's agents , London Management , confirmed last night that a photograph of the Princess emerging from a restaurant with red-headed Settelen had followed a ‘ business meeting ’ . |
| 25 | Police confirmed last night that a body found in a storage unit in a partially derelict mill near the centre of Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester was that of the missing woman . |
| 26 | A public meeting went ahead as planned in Leyburn last night and a petition to Parliament will still be handed to Mr Hague in the town today . |
| 27 | There was a Department of Trade and Industry Question Time last month and a debate last week , but the Opposition did not answer those questions . |
| 28 | The IXth International Conference on AIDS held in Berlin last week provided a forum for the luminaries of HIV research — Luc Montagnier , Robert Gallo , and Anthony Fauci — to tantalise an audience of over 12,000 with their speculations about future treatment . |
| 29 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 30 | Similar motives prompted the FA to ban an Arsenal player , Paul Davis , for nine matches last season after a TV news camera had spotted him punching Glenn Cockerill behind the referee 's back with such force that the Southampton player 's jaw was broken . |