Example sentences of "in the last [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following months he defeated Lord Franks in the election of a Chancellor for Oxford University : he was still in office in 1983 , and still using in public ceremonies the Latin pronunciation he had learned at Eton in the last Edwardian days . |
| 2 | They have charted complex changes since 1000 BC , showing that even in the last 1500 years the area has evolved from a series of tidal inlets , through the development of spits and dunes , to the triangular area that it is today , with the vast recent pebble dumps of Dungeness . |
| 3 | It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents . |
| 4 | In newly-published research , two American scientists claim the eruption of Toba in Sumatra 73,500 years ago — the largest in the last million years and five times bigger than Tambora — may have caused a global cooling of 3-5C . |
| 5 | To each of these may be added another if we count the faunal extinctions brought about by man in the last million years or so . |
| 6 | That 's 5 goals in the last 4 games . |
| 7 | They 've hit 15 goals in the last 4 matches . |
| 8 | But the 10 year old from Milton Keynes has already rejected two kidney transplants in the last 4 years . |
| 9 | As the new term is about to start , they 've been told that 6 of their 10 business sponsors have gone bust in the last 4 months . |
| 10 | The home side , boosted by the inclusion of Dutch world Cup stars Taco Van Den Hornet , Floris Jan Bovelander and GB gold medallists John Shaw , Stephen Martin and Sean Kerly , clawed their way back with two goals in the last twelve minutes after Dan Clarke , with a hat-trick , had steered Ireland into a 5–3 lead . |
| 11 | I have been depressed about life in the Eighties , the way the economy has gone in the last twelve years . |
| 12 | In the last twelve years of her reign the war cost £3 ½ m. , to which parliamentary grants , benevolences , and forced loans contributed about £1,800,000 . |
| 13 | This developing experience was at that time still a precarious feature : in the last twelve years of Edward I , after all , several parliaments met without any shire or borough representatives being summoned . |
| 14 | Local initiative and pluralism , growth of decision-making centres , and space for individual/group autonomy would promote an active citizenry as opposed to individuals set apart from the authoritative state which has grown under the Conservatives in the last twelve years . |
| 15 | Very quickly in , what , what can I say , I mean it 's an appalling situation where you have a political party that believes that it can solve all the ills of these the country that it has created in the last twelve years , I hope on the explicit though I tend to think renunciations are fairly clear here , but erm I hope you 'll listen . |
| 16 | Fifty-five people have been killed in the last twelve years . |
| 17 | Well , I always look north on a dark night and I think that twice in the last twelve years . |
| 18 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 19 | The Merseyside Crime Survey found , for example , that 44 per cent of interviewees had been victims of crime in the last twelve months , and a quarter had been victimized twice or more . |
| 20 | First , the proportion of pessimists about the future is clearly and consistently lower than the proportion who perceived deterioration in the economy in the past ; there must be a significant number of people who think things got worse in the last twelve months , but who are perpetually hopeful that the rot has stopped . |
| 21 | ‘ Why have you had three different jobs in the last twelve months ? ’ , 'Why were you made redundant ? ' , etc. , so that you can practise positive responses to them . |
| 22 | And there had n't been a serious offer for the property in the last twelve months . |
| 23 | Hirst , at twenty-seven the youngest of the four contenders , is the finalist who has attracted greater publicity in the last twelve months . |
| 24 | But in the last twelve months the fury of the entire national had been aroused against him by an aged , exiled cleric for whom he had only contempt . |
| 25 | No member of the committee , his representative or associate of them nor any person who was a member of the committee in the last twelve months must enter into any transaction whereby he receives out of the estate any payment for services given or goods supplied in connection with the administration or obtains any profit from the administration or acquires any asset forming part of the estate ( r 6.165(2) ) except with leave of the court , with prior sanction of the committee where full value for the transaction is given and in cases of urgency or by way of performance of a contract in existence at the date of the bankruptcy order where leave of the court is sought subsequently without delay ( r 6.165(3) ) . |
| 26 | stock items where no sale has been recorded in the last twelve months ; or |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There are two professors in the English department where I work , and in the last twelve months , one of them has got very keen on structuralism . |
| 29 | It is surprising how much this has widened out in the last twelve months , to be honest . |
| 30 | In five , three , it says we 've only got seventeen U S enquiries in the last twelve months , could I , could I ask how many of those seventeen produced anything ? |