Example sentences of "for the last [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physical relocation of S&R staff is scheduled for the last weekend in May . |
| 2 | For the last hour between half-a-million and a million starlings — impossible to estimate accurately — had been flying in from every direction . |
| 3 | Well , many thanks indeed for fighting for the last hour on this programme . |
| 4 | Not for the last day of my life . |
| 5 | The thin , pale sunshine gave little warmth , but it was a welcome extension of the autumn , and unusually fine for the last day of October . |
| 6 | It had been a pearl of a day at five , and fine since , for the last day of the fair . |
| 7 | The children will visit Edenside later this month for two ‘ familiarisation ’ days in the classrooms at Kelso before returning to Heiton for the last day of term . |
| 8 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 9 | ‘ So you still have n't decided to give the poor guy a break , even for the last day on set ? ’ |
| 10 | For the last quarter of an hour or so his face had been furrowed with the effort of understanding the information with which he had been presented . |
| 11 | And the company has unveiled a pre-tax loss of $2.3m for the last quarter of 1991 , much improved on last time 's $59m . |
| 12 | And then as I say , it was defend , defend , defend for the last quarter of an hour . |
| 13 | Although widely described as boat people , a large number of the January arrivals had made most of the journey to Hong Kong aboard Chinese buses , only boarding boats for the last leg of their journey . |
| 14 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For the last year at least it 's been talking with X terminal vendors such as Network Computing Devices , Tektronix , Visual Technology and Human Designed Systems under non-disclosure . |
| 17 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 18 | For the last year of his life he suffered from myeloma , a form of bone cancer , and entered hospital for the last time in July where he made friends with another patient who , unfortunately , soon died . |
| 19 | Freud moved from Vienna in 1938 , when the Nazis took over , and lived for the last year of his life in London . |
| 20 | However , further pit closures are inevitable in the productivity battle , because the 65 million tonnes agreed for the last year of the contract is likely to shrink to fewer than 50 million , at best . |
| 21 | On Feb 28 , 1990 , the SPC approved a draft law for the last year of the five-year plan , and agreed new terms under which property might be more freely hired and transferred . |
| 22 | UniSQL 's unified relational object-oriented DBMS UniSQL/X , which manages multimedia data and device support , has been used by MIT for the last year as an enabling technology . |
| 23 | Back at your desk , the Companion fits seamlessly with your full-size PC for the last work in time-saving efficiency . |
| 24 | He had been feeling sick ever since they left the main junction and climbed into the joggling , jolting line train for the last lap of their journey , but the sudden whistle had finished him . |
| 25 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 26 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |
| 27 | Each point on the demand curve shows what the individual would pay for the last unit of purer water . |
| 28 | At Enfield , the destination of our first day 's march , we were met and accompanied for the last mile by a procession of Catholic parishioners . |
| 29 | Gloucester again relinquished peripheral holdings in exchange for the last addition to his Yorkshire estates in March 1478 , shortly after the execution of Clarence . |
| 30 | Gloucester again relinquished peripheral holdings in exchange for the last addition to his Yorkshire estates in March 1478 , shortly after the execution of Clarence . |