Example sentences of "and [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stool was brought out , and as the last echoes of twelve faded in the warm night air a dark-haired young man with flashing black eyes came and stood alone in the dim light . |
| 2 | Birth timing or spacing is measured as the length of time that has elapsed between marriage and first birth , between successive births ( closed birth intervals ) and between the last birth and the observation ( open birth interval ) . |
| 3 | Listening to the news through a set of headphones is at the core of the work and for the last year there has been monitoring of television broadcasts by satellite . |
| 4 | For the first time for months , and for the last time ever , I enjoyed the feeling of happiness . |
| 5 | Thatcherism was born and during the last decade there has been record redundancies and bankruptcies within the U K as a whole . |
| 6 | Net immigration during the 1880s accounted for only about 17,000 of the total increase of about 49,000 , and during the last decade of the century all the net gain of about 24,000 people was accounted for by natural growth . |
| 7 | Over the centuries the border has moved more than a little — for instance in 1917 , Alsace was part of Germany and during the last war it was again occupied by the Germans . |
| 8 | His statement referred to the 1956 decision on withdrawal , noting that membership " was in conflict with the wishes of the people in 1956 and during the last elections , and we think the whole agreement is unnecessary " ; the matter was then referred to the relevant parliamentary committees . |
| 9 | I was sitting in a row exactly in front of Harold Wilson and his party , and during the last interval I heard him ask his neighbour whether anyone would ‘ have seen these plays right through ’ . |
| 10 | Bridgwater were runners-up in Courage Western Counties League and during the last week have beaten Weston-super-Mare 18-7 in the final of the Bass Somerset Cup , and Nuneaton , in a friendly , 38-12 . |
| 11 | He sailed for Algiers in March 1943 and during the last days of the Tunisian campaign he saw a mere fortnight 's active service . |
| 12 | But even there they were not to be left alone , and after the last campaign the conquest ended ignominiously as it had begun with the summary execution of Tupac Amaru , thirty-nine years after Atahualpa , his uncle . |
| 13 | After all these years and after the last time , I feel I must take things easy . ’ |
| 14 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 15 | Add together gross earnings on the eight pay-days up to and including the last pay-day before the end of the qualifying week ( QW ) and divide the total by 8 . |
| 16 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 17 | Wallace , signed for £1.2million from Southampton , last played a League game in May 1991 and until the last fortnight it seemed his future lay away from Manchester . |
| 18 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 19 | The Nazi state itself was fraught with internal contradictions , and in the last resort , the Soviet Union could be relied upon not only to oppose fascist aggression , but also to thwart the potentially treacherous politics of reactionary French and British governments . |
| 20 | The degree of economic specialization might vary from one centre to another , and in the last resort it is not always easy to define what was a town . |
| 21 | In every respect Britain 's foreign policy was a failure : it failed to do anything which would strengthen the declining influence of the League of Nations ; it failed to prevent the alliance of Italy and Germany : it failed to stop German expansion , and in the last resort , it failed to prevent the agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union which neutralized the Eastern Front for nearly two years . |
| 22 | Bolton refused to lie down and in the last kick of normal time a shot from Philliskirk cannoned off the crossbar . |
| 23 | And in the last hours of night , Hell 's streets teemed with the addicts , the muggers . |
| 24 | Egham threw men forward in the dying minutes in the search for an equaliser , and in the last minute , Bobby Roper caused Abingdon 's hearts to flutter when he shot narrowly wide . |
| 25 | In the course of a debate on a Bill to remove the marriage bar , introduced in 1927 , MPs expressed feelings of revulsion at the ‘ travesty of nature ’ presented by the image of a working mother and in the last instance a father at home looking after the baby , but the same degree of indignation was never aroused by the work of married women of a lower social class . |
| 26 | Even before 1905 , a solidly-based mass press had come into being , and in the last decade of the Empire there was an explosion in the publication of newspapers , while the number of books appearing more than trebled in the first decade and a half of the century . |
| 27 | While we are on the subject of indirect taxes , will the Government tell the House how they will continue to cut direct taxes and improve public services without at the same time raising VAT as they did in 1979 and in the last Budget ? |
| 28 | The great Aboriginal winger , Chicka Ferguson , was on the wing with Canberra , and in the last minutes , when Balmain had already sent their two most powerful forwards off , and when Bob Hawke was already on his way down from the VIP box to present the shield to Balmain , Chicka scored a wonderfully impossible weaving and kinking try to tie the game . |
| 29 | He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight . |
| 30 | That much sooner and in the last hour , couple of hours we 've seen what I would call a Tweedledee and Tweedledum amendments erm because quite frankly there is n't that much difference between them er at the end of the day the impact on the people who 've had to pay the bill is virtually the same . |