Example sentences of "of the last [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're the last , one of the last ones in our road ! |
| 2 | George and Tony used to pay themselves £350 a week after setting up the firm at the height of the last recession in 1982 . |
| 3 | It shows how the present position compares with the depths of the last recession in 1982 when 23 per cent of such companies were at risk . |
| 4 | COACH Ian McGeechan , whose background includes eight Tests for the Lions between 1974 and 1977 plus being coach of the last Lions in 1989 , rates New Zealand ‘ the ultimate challenge ’ . |
| 5 | She was confusing her poor machine with half a row of the new pattern , when it still had some of the last row in its little cogs . |
| 6 | We have spent a good part of the last decade in a long and often rather frustrating attempt to identify them ( most recently by trying to make specific antibodies that will recognize them ) . |
| 7 | AT THIS stage of the last election in 1987 I was in the middle of writing a column when I had a call to say that the Sunday paper in which it was to appear had closed down . |
| 8 | The history of the last century in Lebanon thus provided dynamite for the detonation of the past 15 years . |
| 9 | Historically associative theories have their origins in the latter part of the last century in a reaction against current introspective approaches in psychology . |
| 10 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 11 | The Dinas Mawddwy Railway is remarkable even by the standards of the last century in that it was financed largely by just one man , Mr Edmund Buckley of Bryn Hall , Llanymawddwy . |
| 12 | Bonnie and Clyde ( 1967 ) was one of the most influential American movies of the last decades in its amoral attitude to ‘ the outlaw ’ , seen from a modern psychological and social viewpoint . |
| 13 | Secondly , section 239 entitles any member or debentureholder to be furnished , on demand and without charge , with a copy of the last accounts in addition to that to which he is entitled under section 238 . |
| 14 | I have spent most of the last year in what was once Yugoslavia , much of it in the beautiful and doomed Republic of Bosnia Hercegovina and it has left me scarcely able to think , far less write about anything else . |
| 15 | As a result , the period begins at midnight on the named date , and expires at midnight of the last day in the period . |
| 16 | Section 15(1) enacts that ‘ notwithstanding anything in any other enactment , a claim under the Act shall not be entertained after the expiration of 30 years from the date of the occurrence which gives rise to the claim , or , where that occurrence was a continuing one , or was one of a succession of occurrences all attributable to a particular happening ’ on a particular site , the date of the last event in the course of that occurrence or succession of occurrences is the relevant one . |
| 17 | A precise , poignant production of the last play in John Byrne 's trilogy impresses Joseph Farrell |
| 18 | He actually witnessed the death of the last animal in his study group . |
| 19 | I repeat a suggestion that I made to the Secretary of State at the time of the last atrocity in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | Let us first offer some more phrases sharing the adjective of the last example in ( 4 ) . |
| 21 | Some art historians detect the hand of Leonardo himself on the canvas , and it 's now generally accepted to be the most perfect version of the Last Supper in existence . |
| 22 | One of the last photographs in this collection perhaps reveals more about Mann 's relationship with her photographic models than anything else . |
| 23 | I was working like a madman right up to the minute of the last show in London , then I collapsed in the studio . |
| 24 | I was working like a madman right up to the minute of the last show in London , then I collapsed in the studio . |
| 25 | In Thwaite Lane , at Hunslet , is the Thwaite Putty Mill , one of the last places in England to keep waterwheels in regular use . |
| 26 | Notice what we said earlier on in that last verse , the last phrase of the last verse in the previous chapter , he who has ears to hear let him hear . |
| 27 | Dehaene , 51 , came from the trade union wing of the Flemish Christian Socials ( CVP ) ; he had negotiated the formation of the last coalition in 1988 [ see pp. 36047-49 ] and was seen as an expert mediator . |
| 28 | This field either contains the PSN of the last entry in this bundle assigned on that basis ( restricting the range of the search ) or contains a negative value indicating that there are no more entries of the kind in this bundle . |
| 29 | Barbie 's eyes are probably two of the last pits in Britain . |
| 30 | The E I P today is probably one of the last pieces in the jigsaw . |