Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 2 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 3 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 4 | It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper . |
| 5 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 6 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 7 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 8 | It was during the last years of the reign of Anne Boleyn 's daughter Elizabeth that the curative effects of lemon juice on scurvy victims was observed , although neither cause nor effect were understood . |
| 9 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , at 3.7 per cent. , the rate of inflation is half the lowest level that it was under the last Labour Government ? |
| 10 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
| 11 | Yet the output is little over half what it was in the last five years before 1939 . |
| 12 | It was in the last year of the old century , 1899 , that Grahame began his love affair with Fowey and its river . |
| 13 | In registered motion paths , you click for each node , and so can accurately define where the actor will be in each frame relative to where it was in the last frame . |
| 14 | It was in the last Staff Association agreement . |