Example sentences of "on [prep] the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 2 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 3 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
| 4 | ‘ Adam Reed came on for the last half hour and did well for a 16-year-old . ’ |
| 5 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 6 | I had paid my rent early on with the last inelastic cheque I 'd written , had n't paid my Poll Tax , had tried to find bar work but been unsuccessful , and was borrowing off Norris , Gav and a few other pals to buy food , which comprised mostly bread and beans and the odd black pudding supper , plus a cider or two when I could be persuaded to squander my meagre resources on contributing to the funds required for a raid on the local off-licence . |
| 7 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 8 | You 've put weight on in the last ten days . ’ |
| 9 | Reporter asks : What have you missed out on in the last forty years ? |
| 10 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 11 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 12 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 13 | These are the things that we have both missed out on over the last few years , both of us working at all times . ’ |
| 14 | Okay finally , a third m major er class of ion channel i which has been extensively worked on over the last few years , since the advent of patch clamping er has been second messenger gated channels , so-called second messenger gated channels . |
| 15 | The score then goes on to the last musical number in Act 3 , ‘ A thousand thousand ways ’ , which is a song repeated by the chorus . |