Example sentences of "make [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Composing himself , Sir Michael pressed on : ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend reflect on the great progress that has been made during the last 10 years in the well-being of our country and the competitiveness of our industries and … |
| 2 | At the moment the price for North Sea oil is just over $18 , $4 less than average industry forecasts made during the last few years when we were building our portfolio . |
| 3 | These drawings were always made between the last few days of August and the end of October . |
| 4 | In nineteen ninety three , four we made a seventy one thousand reduction in economic development , and this year we 're proposing to make a fifty thousand , there 're actually cuts I think , that any committee of any council has made for the last three years . |
| 5 | A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years . |
| 6 | In Britain also , there is recognition that the progress that has been made in the last fifteen years in increasing the pool of professionally-trained social workers must be matched by similar efforts to upgrade the skills of the paraprofessional work force if the quality of social service provision is to be adequate . |
| 7 | Second I want to say a few words about the efforts that have been made in the last twelve months to increase the G M B's role in the building and civil engineering industries and third I want to say something about the present serious situation in the building industry pay talks . |
| 8 | Identify the contribution to profit you have made in the last four weeks . |
| 9 | No matter what great advances have been made in the last 12–18 months , there is still an awful lot of blood being shed in the country . |
| 10 | What progress has the human family made in the last two decades towards fulfilling the basic needs of its poorest members ? |
| 11 | The corollary of this is that any receipts received or payments made in the current financial year which relate to accruals made in the last financial year , will not affect the current year 's profit figures . |
| 12 | To summarise this section on education : substantial progress has been made in the last twenty years in relation to the reduction of sex inequalities in education . |
| 13 | Fergie was not , strictly speaking , Diana 's type ; she was certainly not like her old friends , nor indeed many of the friends she has made in the last few years . |
| 14 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 15 | To maintain the advances that it has made in the last few years , Unix needs not only a ‘ viable ’ desktop environment , argues UI , but an attractively sized market for developers to aim at . |
| 16 | Elsewhere in the town the number of burglaries remains high but there have also been a large number of arrests made in the last seven days . |
| 17 | The discoveries made in the last 30 years about the action of drugs on the brain are important medically and philosophically . |
| 18 | I would also appreciate a brief summary of the number and size of acquisitions your company has made in the last three years . |
| 19 | He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property . |
| 20 | Brian Clough , the Forest manager , said : ‘ His contract was not expiring but he deserved a rise for the contribution he has made over the last 12 months -so he earned himself a new deal . ’ |
| 21 | As such , they are extremely valuable and their accuracy is known to have improved considerably as a result of methodological improvements made over the last few years ( OPCS , 1980 ; Craig and Broad , 1982 ) . |
| 22 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 23 | Add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay day before the PIW began and any other payments made since the pay day which was at least eight weeks before that . |
| 24 | Where an employee is paid once each month , but in multiples of a week , for example on the last Friday of each month , add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay day before the PIW began and any other payments made since the pay day which was at least eight weeks before . |
| 25 | Add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay-day before the end of the QW and any other payments made after the pay-day which was at least eight weeks before that . |
| 26 | It is best made at the last possible moment , although it can be kept warm for a short time in a bowl set over a pan of hot water . |
| 27 | If anybody wants to comment on it , or any I think perhaps just confirm the calculation about being roughly one a day , that erm if you take the number of decisions that we made in the last twelve months , twenty one point eight percent of which were , erm , decisions to be put out by twenty six five , if we divide that by four , divide it by fifty two , and divide it by five you end up with point eight six per day , er |
| 28 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |