Example sentences of "one [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | All through these years took part in every one for the last fifty years . |
| 2 | Mild ale is one of the last surviving examples of the type of beer the whole world drank until new developments in Britain and Europe introduced lighter coloured brews . |
| 3 | Outlines of hut circles , still visible , suggest there was a permanent Brigante settlement here , supposedly one of the last strongholds against the Romans . |
| 4 | And during the years when Pound was most under Yeats 's influence , Pound too embraced this ideal — as when in 1912 he went with Yeats and some others to pay an act of homage to one of the last English representatives of the type , the Sussex squire Wilfred Scawen Blunt : |
| 5 | It is now revealed to be Blue period — but one of the last paintings of this series . |
| 6 | It was his decision , for example , to shift a military pay day to 29 September , one of the last days of fiscal 1989 , from 1 October , the beginning of fiscal 1990 . |
| 7 | But such worries are nothing compared to the dilemma facing the Kremlin as the waves of perestroika lap at one of the last fortresses of communist orthodoxy . |
| 8 | After all , he is one of the last survivors of a disappearing people ; he belongs to a tribe whose main characteristic is that its members do not own a television set . |
| 9 | Mecir , a ‘ touch ’ player , and one of the last tour professionals to forsake a wooden racket in the name of technology , advocates caution : ‘ It depends on your confidence . |
| 10 | The tribe is one of the last hunter-gatherer cultures in North America |
| 11 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 12 | In 1915 he had sailed to South America on one of the last square-riggers . |
| 13 | Proof that the themes of savage and city stayed in Eliot 's mind to the end is furnished by one of the last pieces which he published . |
| 14 | He is anxious not purely for Delphi , set in one of the last unspoilt valleys in Ireland , but for the whole wild sweep of west Mayo beyond it , up to the bustling tourist town of Westport . |
| 15 | The Franjiehs , who have their own Marada , or Giants , militia , are headed by former president Suleiman Franjieh , one of the last of the old-style Maronite warlords . |
| 16 | The reputation of one of the last of the Hi-de-Hi style holiday camps was vindicated when the BBC agreed to pay £250,000 compensation for a libellous item on Esther Rantzen 's That 's Life programme . |
| 17 | The reputation of one of the last of the Hi-de-Hi style holiday camps was vindicated yesterday when the BBC agreed to pay £250,000 compensation for a libellous item on Esther Rantzen 's That 's Life programme . |
| 18 | THE reputation of one of the last of the Hi-de-Hi style holiday camps was vindicated yesterday when the BBC agreed to pay record compensation of £250,000 for a libellous item on Esther Rantzen 's That 's Life programme . |
| 19 | Deaths : Sammy Fain : in Los Angeles aged 87 : one of the last tunesmiths who peddled their songs from the back of trucks and in the dingy hallways of Tin Pan Alley . |
| 20 | My elder brother , one of the last O-level year , pretends to sneer at my GCSE passes , but I 'm glad we did n't have to go through all the cramming and regurgitation of the old exams . |
| 21 | The old Signals Gallery , largely Medalla 's creation , was one of the last places where one found the undirected avant-guardism of post-war years . |
| 22 | One of the last things Angela did was to have lunch with an old schoolfriend in the DTI who is responsible for the Huerter case , to make sure the DTI understood the impact of such assistance on Barton 's operations . ’ |
| 23 | On May Day I got a shock that was half pleasant , half sad : Joe had printed , over our pseudonym , one of the last poems Dana and I had composed , ‘ Winter 's End ’ : |
| 24 | One of the last poems we wrote together in Bath expresses perfectly the state of our love at that time . |
| 25 | She was a profession celebrity — one of the last to flourish without benefit of television . |
| 26 | They represent one of the last truly feudal institutions in Britain . |
| 27 | In 437 one of the last pagan aristocrats allowed himself to be converted on his deathbed by his conspicuously pious niece , perhaps from fear of less gentle pressure from the emperor . |
| 28 | One of the last extant reports of the SD agency in Schweinfurt , from May 1944 , attributed the defeatist attitude of the population , especially of the workers , directly to the effects of the bombing . |
| 29 | The movement was , despite all its rhetoric about the need for ‘ organization ’ and Roseberian efficiency , one of the last examples of Nonconformist voluntarism because ultimately it was only a collection of men , and sometimes women , who wanted to promote their identity as ‘ Free Churchmen ’ . |
| 30 | He says the issue — one of the last under the Business Expansion Scheme — was fully subscribed . |