Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
2 | Although the numbers have fallen in the last decade , a high proportion of the world 's children do not even have the opportunity of having protection from some of the major childhood killers , diseases for which vaccines are available — measles for example is a major cause of childhood mortality . |
3 | Cases of salmonella food poisoning in Britain have trebled in the last three years and are at an all-time high , according to government statistics . |
4 | Rising costs , a more sophisticated travelling public and much greater competition from numerous holiday attractions , which have developed within the last 10 years , have made it virtually impossible to run two commercial railways in such close proximity . |
5 | Two million have enrolled in the last twenty one years . |
6 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
7 | It lets you back up ( and restore ) whole disks or selected files and/or directories — including the option to back up only files that have modified since the last run . |
8 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |
9 | ‘ We have reviewed the results and the fact is we lost as many as we have won over the last two seasons , ’ said Bates . |
10 | Its peculiar feature is that the main raw material , pig bristle , is bought from a monopoly supplier , China , and it is imports of Chinese paint brushes that have quadrupled within the last three years . |
11 | We have noticed over the last few months at Cadogan Travel seem to be noticeably more expensive than the other travel agents used by Christian Aid . |
12 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
13 | All that I have said in the last chapter about preparation and being able to sort out important issues is again not possible given this scenario . |
14 | I have searched through the last Conservative party manifesto . |
15 | I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years . |
16 | Mrs Thatcher , who returned from the United States last night , said : ‘ Everything we have done in the last 13 years will be conserved and built on into the future . |
17 | ‘ But we are proud of what we have done in the last year and a half . ’ |
18 | Certainly , we have seen over the last seven years in Britain new educational legislation of a kind which is having a profound influence upon practice in education departments and schools — for better or for worse . |
19 | As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid . |
20 | You have already isolated the woman , picked her out from all the women you have seen in the last hour , all the women you have seen today . |
21 | Now try to change the following to improper fractions : unc As you have seen in the last few questions , improper fractions Numerator are " top heavy " . |
22 | The aim of this research is to investigate the role of money income targets for a small open economy such as the UK , and their relationship with policies designed to avoid fluctuations in the exchange rate of the magnitude we have seen in the last few years . |
23 | Here 's the list I 've made so far — all the children I have seen in the last three weeks . |
24 | We have undergone in the last year a major refurbishment of all our guest and public rooms and now offer the comforts so necessary for a mini-break . |
25 | I heard that that er er er parts of the rest of the U K property prices have risen over the last year , er but ours have actually not risen at all . |
26 | How much money has been spent and how many animals have suffered during the last eight years ? |
27 | But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games . |
28 | ‘ This report surely demands a rethink by both the Government and the senior management of BR of the policies that they have adopted over the last 10 years . ’ |
29 | We have Adopted in the last few years , the Modular Education System . |
30 | Requests to Darlington council for help with housing have tripled in the last three years , according to Labour . |