Example sentences of "for [adj] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Newton made no mention of the future of child benefit , which the Government has frozen for each of the last two years years at £7.25 a week . |
| 2 | More than 5,000 have been locked out of St James 's Park for each of the last two games and Keegan gasped : ‘ The fans are amazing . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will state the infant mortality rate for each of the last 10 years . |
| 4 | The Company has offered shareholders the opportunity to elect to receive new ordinary shares of the Company in lieu of cash for the final dividend for each of the last three years and this opportunity will again be offered in respect of the final dividend for 1993 . |
| 5 | Karen Rowbottom from Cobham branch was cruelly deprived of the winner 's title again this year , not only in the singles but also in the doubles final — virtually identical to her results for each of the last four years . |
| 6 | ‘ The greatest mistake any adversary could make would be to doubt America 's resolve during this period of transition , ’ Clinton said in a statement outside the Arkansas governor 's mansion in Little Rock , where he has lived for 12 of the last 14 years . |
| 7 | There was little turn , but great accuracy from the spin twins , and by capturing four wickets for 67 in the last session , England had done well . |
| 8 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 9 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 10 | If for much of the last 50 years the Russians were almost invisible , and those whom we did see were either the brilliant defectors or carefully hand-picked stars , it is hardly surprising that the British public swallowed the myth . |
| 11 | This must seem like bliss to those who were on the rack for much of the last three years . |
| 12 | For much of the last millennium , the Caucasus was nominally part of the Persian empire , although its inaccessibility made it largely independent . |
| 13 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 14 | The UK 's growth of total exports showed the slowest growth of any of 19 Industrial Market Economies for much of the last 25 years ( World Bank , 1989 ) ; however , through the mid 1980s the decline of the UK 's share of world trade was arrested at the level of about 8 per cent . |
| 15 | Most of the former National Guards were high-ranking figures from the Somoza regime who had been in prison for much of the last 10 years . |
| 16 | In my most cherished memory of him , he is standing on his chair , at a table for twenty-eight in The Last Great Australian Fish Restaurant , bopping and twisting and bellowing his way through ‘ I Ca n't Get No Satisfaction ’ , with his walkabout phone precariously jammed in the back pocket of a pair of apparently descending blue jeans . |
| 17 | It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents . |
| 18 | Clough , leading scorer at Forest for three of the last four seasons , has been wanted by a number of top clubs since his dad brought him out of local Sunday League football to Forest . |
| 19 | For the Socialists , in power for ten of the last 12 years , it was their worst general election defeat since 1968 . |
| 20 | This included transplant surgery and medical treatment for AIDS ( but not " comfort care " for those in the last stages of the illness ) . |
| 21 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 22 | This could be the year they do , though they say that around the Cam every year and have been wrong for 15 of the last 16 . |
| 23 | The Great Britain skipper , out for four of the last six games with hamstring trouble , said : ‘ I 'm glad to be back and hope I can sort things out with the club without too much fuss . ’ |
| 24 | An internal inquiry has been carried out by Ealing social services , in whose area Christopher lived for most of the last weeks of his life , but no serious professional errors were found . |
| 25 | ‘ For most of the last 1,000 years , the universities have been an engine of social mobility ; they are now , thanks to the funding system , a means to ensuring that the graduate class is hereditary , ’ Sir John said . |
| 26 | For most of the last mile , in fact , the race looked a match between Northern Jinks and Kilhallon Castle . |
| 27 | He hopes that the cohesion and character which England have shown for most of the last 11 months will bridge the gap in sheer talent which will continue to separate the two teams . |
| 28 | The disease front has been moving ahead by fits and starts for most of the last two decades and three years ago crossed the Italian frontier into the provinces of South Tyrol and Venice . |