Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | B. Some great industrialists and business people in Sheffield in the last century developed special skills in steel making and made huge profits which provided the capital for larger works . |
| 2 | Whilst I had changed into my second set of wedding clothes Margaret had explained that the Remington-Harts had bought a country house in Downshurst in the last year . |
| 3 | St Joseph 's old boy Jim D'Avila , Labour 's candidate in Swindon at the last election , says his parents would have sent him elsewhere had it not been for subsidised transport . |
| 4 | Mr Young , 77 , who directed the James Bond movies Dr No and From Russia With Love , has lived in Cannes for the last 20 years . |
| 5 | He had to be in Amsterdam next week , he told her , and Rio in November , so they decided to get married in Brussels in the last week of October . |
| 6 | 8–12 There have been extensive improvements going on in Jura during the last two years . |
| 7 | The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration . |
| 8 | I want to thank also er the different organisations , cos you made an absolute profit for the G P O , er erm British Telecom , they must have actually made a bomb in Leicestershire over the last few days . |
| 9 | Reports I read in the national press suggest that retail sales are not improving , and that has certainly been borne out by our experience in Scotland over the last few weeks . |
| 10 | First , to identify the firms in each industrial sector and to rank the major companies at 25 year intervals between 1860 and 1960 ; second , to compile lists of owners , directors and managers in these leading firms in each sector ; third , to produce a biography of enterprise in Scotland in the last century by preparing biographies of leading businessmen for publication in a Dictionary of Scottish Business Biography . |
| 11 | I ca n't think of anywhere that the stage designs have been more consistently imaginative and beautifully realized than in Salzburg over the last twenty years . |
| 12 | The community reaction to mining in Ireland over the last two decades is one that can be presented in an almost linear , chronological fashion . |
| 13 | Digital has run down sections of its operation in Ireland over the last few years , including the closure of a plant a Clonmel with the loss of 350 jobs . |
| 14 | Vocational training for the actor as we know it has only existed in England for the last eighty years . |
| 15 | If this new regulation comes through they 'll be part of a new seat but if in fact they do n't have this regulation come into effect they 'll belong to another s and when you 've had in fact in Southend say the lowest recorded percentage voting of any constituency in England at the last Euro elections I think it 's terrible important we should in fact explain to people whether this is likely to happen . |
| 16 | At York he was able to write a weighty book , From Gore to Temple , which traced changes in Christian thought in England during the last eighty years . |
| 17 | The Romans probably introduced the geared watermill and are first recorded in England during the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 18 | More than 70 people have died in Strathclyde in the last 15 months as a result of drug-taking . |
| 19 | The economy is poised for take-off and the figures in Stroud over the last few months but I fully understand the fears of the workers and their families |
| 20 | A Bolivian , born in Paris into the Ortiz-Patino family who made their fortune in tin mining in South America after World War I , Ortiz has been resident in Geneva for the last twenty-five years . |
| 21 | But consumption does not directly create capital assets whether financed internally or externally , and investment levels in most countries have not risen significantly as a proportion of GDP in Africa over the last twenty years , and reMain 6 or 7 per cent lower than in both the rest of the developing world and in the industrialized world . |
| 22 | Looking at the story of food in Africa over the last two decades is a depressing business . |
| 23 | Robert wondered how this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis had managed to carry on like this in Wimbledon for the last seventy years . |
| 24 | Being another only child , and as my father 's job had kept my parents in Singapore for the last two years , I now spent most of my holidays with my aunt and cousin , timing them to come in Dickie 's school holidays . |
| 25 | Someone needs to take a long hard look at what has happened to tennis in Ulster over the last 20 years . |
| 26 | THREE thousand people , most of them innocent civilians , have been murdered in Ulster in the last 23 years … for nothing . |
| 27 | In 1924 , the United States upset the heavily-favoured French 17–3 in Paris in the last rugby match in the Olympics . |
| 28 | Some 13,000 Soviet immigrants arrived in Israel during the last week of June , bringing the total for the month to more than 20,000 , one of the largest monthly influxes yet . |
| 29 | There was something approaching a ‘ moral panic ’ taking place in China during the last few years of the reform decade , exacerbated by the ‘ falling in love craze ’ and some of its unhealthy results . |
| 30 | We have not made any far-reaching contingency plans for after 1997 ; indeed so much has happened in China in the last two years that has shifted the mood from gloom to optimism ; today Hong Kong is a booming economic zone and is regarded as the mediator between the Western and Chinese economies ’ . |