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 .
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