Example sentences of "and for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although based in Cardiff , the Welsh National Opera tours extensively , and for the last twelve years has had a regular season in London too . |
| 2 | Two years later he became Leader of the House of Commons , and for the last two years of the Labour government presided over the empire of the Department of Health and Social Services . |
| 3 | The company was formed in 1982 and for the last six years , under the name of Touring Europe , has been mainly involved in taking plays in English to the Continent of Europe . |
| 4 | The weeks changed and for the last two days of my stay , I was the only attender . |
| 5 | Incidentally , the 2nd Duke of Montrose ( 1712–1790 ) was also deaf , unable to speak , and for the last thirty years of his life from 1760 onwards , totally blind as well and needed an interpreter for even everyday communication with his wife . |
| 6 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 7 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |
| 8 | Madeline had spent 20 years in education and childcare management and for the last 10 had been running nine nurseries for a charity in London . |
| 9 | I am 59 years of age and for the last fourteen years I have had curly perms . |
| 10 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 11 | Charly Herscovici , who formerly assisted Georgette Magritte and for the last six years has managed the painter 's copyright and droit morale , explained how this could have come about . |
| 12 | Gibeau felt that we had had too easy a time of it at Canjuers and for the last three days introduced a new punishment . |
| 13 | Listening to the news through a set of headphones is at the core of the work and for the last year there has been monitoring of television broadcasts by satellite . |
| 14 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 15 | SIDT 's initial start-up funding and training support came from the Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific ( FSP ) and for the last four years , the UK Foundation ( FSP/UK ) , based in Edinburgh , has been raising money for SIDT throughout Europe . |
| 16 | It was a good seven-hour jeep-lurch , even with Abu at the wheel , and for the last two hours we drove over a tyre-tearing track down a parched spit of land . |
| 17 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
| 18 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 19 | Ninety-two coins spun consecutively have come down heads ninety-two consecutive times … and for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute … |
| 20 | John Mitchell was employed on the building of the Caledonian canal ; his diligence and skill were noticed by Thomas Telford [ q.v. ] and for the last eighteen years of his life he was principal inspector of the roads and bridges in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 21 | In 1835 she succumbed to a form of pre-senile dementia and for the last two decades of her life was confined to the house and terrace of Rydal Mount . |
| 22 | For the first time for months , and for the last time ever , I enjoyed the feeling of happiness . |
| 23 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
| 24 | However , I buy this product regularly and for the last three months the price displayed on the shelf has been £1 . |
| 25 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 26 | studied chartered accountancy at the Oxford Polytechnic and for the last 18 months has worked for a local chartered accountant . |
| 27 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 28 | Rachel Sims ( Mrs Miller ) is still serving with the Metropolitan Police Force , and for the last few years had been at the rank of inspector , until recently holding the post of Staff Officer to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner in charge of the North West London . |
| 29 | As an example , if there is a gain on the sale of a property owned equally for fifteen years , occupied for the first ten years by both husband and wife and for the last five years by only the wife , there is complete exemption on the one-half share occupied by the wife throughout , and a chargeable gain to the extent of two-fifteenths of the gain on the other half ( the chargeable years being the five years after occupation had ceased less the 36 months ) . |
| 30 | It 's an easy , efficient way to clear crop fields and for the last twenty years strict guide-lines were laid down to control it . |