Example sentences of "have [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
2 | To give a brief example , in Nepal population pressure has in the last decade or so brought about many intensifications of cropping patterns such as the introduction of wheat as a winter crop . |
3 | The concept of four major glacial events , based on classic studies in the European Alps ( Penck and Brückner , 1909 ) and supported by observations in Scandinavia , North America and Siberia , has in the last decade been shown to be an oversimplification . |
4 | similar to well the girl mentioned earlier on , that , since then I 've had within the last couple of years |
5 | I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got . |
6 | where you , you get a scale response to them and we can do stats on but equally , if you get people to describe their most recent dream or describe their most erm , you know , compelling dream or , you know , a good one that they 've had in the last year or something like that , you may want to try and get that on tape or something like that erm if possible , yeah . |
7 | The opportunity that they now have is to become independent production companies , an opportunity that they did not have in the last round of licence decisions . |
8 | If precedes , as in ‘ Boston ’ , a final syllabic nasal is less frequent , while clusters formed by nasal + plosive + syllabic nasal are very unusual : thus ‘ Minton ’ , ‘ lantern ’ , ‘ London ’ , ‘ abandon ’ will normally have in the last syllable and be pronounced , , , . |
9 | Now I 've past the last base and you want me to just run through a minefield okay ? |
10 | Does he not recall the trouble that Clemens Krauss had with the last act at the at the 1944 dress rehearsal ? |
11 | ‘ I used mainly my green Ibanez that I had on the last tour , but for a Be-Bop solo on Giant Steps I used an Ibanez George Benson . |
12 | I 'm sure that if I was still living in England we would n't have got the push that we had on the last album and we would n't have got nominated for a Grammy . |
13 | My Lords , er , er , er no doubt that all of your Lordships have throughout the last hour and forty minutes felt a great deal of sympathy with the Noble Earl Lord |
14 | Yet the most sweeping changes and the most fertile inventions have in the last decade come from New York . |
15 | I have in the last couple of lectures erm outlined or tried to outline erm Locke 's basic decision erm his concept of how we as individuals are related to nature , to each other and I 've emphasised the crucial importance of this notion of how we are related to God . |
16 | It would be most interesting to know if you can think of other potential members — our seminars have in the last year or two proved popular and have been extraordinarily cost effective . |
17 | Since discourse unfolds in time , it seems natural that time-deictic words can be used to refer to portions of the discourse ; thus analogously to last week and next Thursday , we have in the last paragraph and in the next Chapter . |
18 | However , the technology is moving very fast and , as pen computers come into common usage , prices will fall as dramatically as the prices of conventional computers have over the last couple of years . |