Example sentences of "at [adv] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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1 | DOWNPATRICK races will start later than usual next Wednesday — at 4.00pm with the last race at 6.30pm . |
2 | And this year , I found myself in Exmouth , with members of my local RSPB group , boarding the Devon Princess 11 at 1pm on the last Saturday in February . |
3 | The attempt to minimise industrial conflict has been a goal of public policy in Britain at least since the last century when the Conciliation Act of 1896 was passed . |
4 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
5 | She may even concede that hospitalisation is best , at least for the last trimester . |
6 | He was an effortless survival of the 1930s , where fiction had abounded in well-meaning young men who had striven to Do the Right Thing and come to grief , at least till the last page of the story . |
7 | While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century . |
8 | The last few days passed horrendously quickly — except for the bus ride down to Delhi at 3am on the last day of March . |