Example sentences of "and [adv] for the last " in BNC.

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1 Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within .
2 The lights flickered on and off for the last dance .
3 Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child .
4 Nor does it rely principally on my experience in classrooms , though I have been , briefly , a secondary schoolteacher and have been visiting schools and working with young people in a variety of ways on and off for the last sixteen years .
5 They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey .
6 The feudal levy now fell into disuse : it was summoned in 1327 , and then for the last time , and probably for financial reasons , in 1385 .
7 She smiled at her stepchild and then for the last time dug her long finger sharply in Artemis 's shoulder , but Artemis did n't flinch .
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