Example sentences of "of [art] last [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Timber staithes remain at this port on the River Tyne , some of the last such structures built in the nineteenth century as wharves for unloading coal from the railway on to waiting ships . |
| 2 | After the stories of the last few chapters , since the point when the promises were first given , our confidence in Abraham 's reliability has been shaken nearly to pieces . |
| 3 | But when he suddenly took ill and returned to Hollywood to undergo surgery for lung cancer , his son Christopher helped polish up some of the last few scenes . |
| 4 | ‘ The economic system of the last few decades has failed , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The characteristic feature of this sector is its heterogeneity , brought about by the changes of the last few decades . |
| 6 | It certainly begins to seem as though the materialist philosophy of the last few decades in the West was a myth just like any other , now that science is getting so weird , what with particles travelling back in time , and the fantastic strangeness of the new cosmology and chaos theory ( all those pretty Mandelbrot sets , and stuff about butterflies in China causing storms over the Atlantic ties in perfectly with the New Spirituality ) . |
| 7 | Something in the atmosphere of the room seemed to have changed in the course of the last few moments , and Liston could n't say for certain what it was . |
| 8 | Robbie asked , her gesture encompassing the exchanges of the last few moments . |
| 9 | Relieved to find some respite from the intensity of the last few moments , she allowed him to guide her outside . |
| 10 | This would give him time to get back to Mrs Lorimer 's , out of his jeans and grubby shirt , and into something that smelt less heavily of the smoke , sweat and beer of the Prince of Wales where he had spent most of the last few working days . |
| 11 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 12 | Where had the ice-cold man of the last few hours gone ? |
| 13 | Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm . |
| 14 | So an important decision has to be made in a hurry by people who are clearly affected by the events of the last few days . |
| 15 | Creeping underneath the ledge , she found that there was enough space for her to nestle safely while she slept off the exhaustion of the last few days . |
| 16 | All the emotional turmoil and excitement of the outbreak of war , all the long drawn out details of my training , the thrills of flying and the fear of death , all the bustle and anticipation of the last few days had ended in this , in my standing alone on a slushy path in the late afternoon with absolutely nothing whatever to do . |
| 17 | He had made good use of the last few days . |
| 18 | Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down . |
| 19 | Tina was absolutely furious now , but the extraordinary events of the last few days had increased Jack 's confidence and he refused to be put off . |
| 20 | Environment Minister David Maclean told an audience at Tory Central Office : ‘ The rain of the last few days goes some way to replenishing the reservoirs . |
| 21 | As he regains consciousness , he gradually remembers the terrible events of the last few days . |
| 22 | He felt suddenly light , as though the burden of the last few days had suddenly lifted from his shoulders . |
| 23 | Li Yuan sat there a moment longer , thinking over the satisfactions of the last few days , recollecting the great feeling of ch'i , of pure energy , he had experienced in dealing with these matters . |
| 24 | A long gossip about the adventures of the last few days , with some exaggeration as the wine flows about the strength of the winds and the size of the waves . |
| 25 | The events of the last few days had made Charles forget about Jacqui 's flat being done over , but inside it the evidence was all too clear . |
| 26 | The strain of the last few days was beginning to tell , and he knew he had n't got much energy left . |
| 27 | ‘ I feel we should try to talk about the happenings of the last few days . |
| 28 | As they rode leisurely through the thyme-scented , bee-humming air , Rincewind pondered on the experiences of the last few days . |
| 29 | After their diet of the last few days , anything would taste like ambrosia . |
| 30 | The dramatic events of the last few days might have been more easily understood had the Georgians been playing Milan or Manchester United . |