Example sentences of "the [noun] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a thank you to the 70 maintenance crew who have serviced the planes at the base for the last 22 years . |
| 2 | Ten fighter jets from Upper Heyford have left the base for the last time , as the American operation there begins to wind down . |
| 3 | Her father has been an elder of the kirk for the last twenty years . |
| 4 | Say the sentence for the last time . |
| 5 | The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days . |
| 6 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 7 | Such was the hope for the last days , and this was the hope that the Christians had seen fulfilled since the resurrection and ascension of Jesus . |
| 8 | She died in 1850 , having been allowed to leave the convent for the last few months of her life to be nursed by her sisters . |
| 9 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 10 | Arriving back at the cottage for the last time Ludens paused to look and listen . |
| 11 | I had no regrets as I slammed the door behind me and left the cottage for the last time . |
| 12 | Solihull LEA have supported Prestel Education in the college for the last year . |
| 13 | You will probably need to loosen the tension for the last two rows for a really misty effect . |
| 14 | The foursome , whose single End Of The Road has been at number one in the States for the last three weeks , were barred from entering New Orleans to do their live satellite link-up with the Beeb show . |
| 15 | Goyigama Buddhists normally organized thefts in both areas , but Muslim or Sinhalese Roman Catholic traders usually took control of the animals for the last stages before the slaughterhouse . |
| 16 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |
| 17 | Radio-carbon or C14 dating was first applied in 1949 and together with other evidence now provides the chronology for the last 50,000 years and may be extended to 75,000 years . |
| 18 | On present policies , according to Jeremy Lawrence , we ‘ risk creating a pensioner underclass that the new private sources of income can not reach ’ ( New Society , 5 June 1987 ; the data for the last three paragraphs is drawn from the same source ) . |
| 19 | I had , after all , been working on the review for the last year . |
| 20 | Erm but one of the things that we , that we will need to do is actually to review the overtime for the last three months to say okay , what 's it actually been spent on so that we can start to er make sure we 've identified the reasons for it . |
| 21 | The Manor ground has been home to the club for the last 67 years . |
| 22 | He was still going well enough , but then , as he turned towards the stands for the last time , a doubt began to nibble , and then to gnaw , Was he losing his momentum ? |
| 23 | The trainer , watching the race on a television screen in the weighing room , had gazed in silence until the field reached the top of the hill and turned towards the stands for the last time . |
| 24 | In the modern era , those three must be bracketed together : they , with Piquet — who , despite his achievements , is rarely mentioned in the same company — have totally dominated the sport for the last twenty years . |
| 25 | Nevin , out in the cold for the last year at Goodison , said : ‘ I 'm aiming to create as many goals as possible for Aldo and help take Tranmere into the Premier League . |
| 26 | Andrevitch surveyed the corridor for the last time as he backed in . |
| 27 | Actually I did operations between the village hall and the Crosskeys and Mr Martin is on the pub for the last sixteen years you see . |
| 28 | Actually I 'll be operating between the village hall and the Cross Keys and Mr Roger has the pub for the last sixteen years or so . |
| 29 | So all the documentations for the last provision . |
| 30 | He has been the coach for the last five seasons . |