Example sentences of "about the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had he meant about the last couple of lines of her notes ? |
| 2 | ‘ What about the last wave in the heat ? ’ |
| 3 | About the last day of January we could issue it . |
| 4 | Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century . |
| 5 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 6 | And at a time when the Ingard lot are pressed for money , he 's about the last person you 'd have thought they 'd go to any trouble over . |
| 7 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
| 8 | On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service . |
| 9 | ‘ My grandfather was … always an active man , right t'more or less about the last year that he died . |
| 10 | TWIN PEAKS — FIRE WALK WITH ME : Prequel to David Lynch 's cult TV series about the last year of Laura Palmer 's life . |
| 11 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 12 | I think Row was about the last row in and of course you 'd got all the fields , Gardens and what have you . |
| 13 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 14 | about the last month or so I 've felt it getting slower . |
| 15 | It was therefore entirely fitting that , in the celebrated Ealing comedy about the last age of steam , The Titfield Thunderbolt should be driven by the local vicar and fired by a visiting bishop . |
| 16 | The good news about the last edition of Nonesuch , as far as the editorial team was concerned , was that the readers liked it . |
| 17 | There is a solution to conflicting views about the Last Supper . |
| 18 | For it has always been said of the eucharist that precisely it is not a play about the last supper — in which case the celebrant had best be male and semitic in appearance . |
| 19 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 20 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 21 | Okay thank you and what about the last group . |
| 22 | If I grumble about the last movement of the Tchaikovsky , I certainly would not complain about the delicacy of the pizzicato of the third movement . |
| 23 | It 's not fair to the others — and asking for clothes for his wife is about the last straw ! ’ |
| 24 | It seems quite a while ago now , but it 's about the last thing I remember . |
| 25 | But we 'll only really worry about the last page if you |
| 26 | The make-up girl went to work on me as Duncan and I reminisced about the last time we 'd worked together . |
| 27 | ‘ No , really — think about the last time you went a day without wearing make-up and I bet it would be a frighteningly long time ago . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What about the last time of all ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Anyway , for some reason Heather wanted to know all about the last time Clare had been here , which , as it happened , I remembered very well , not just because it turned out to be the last I ever saw of her , but on account of something odd that had occurred . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , in the clubhouse bar , the young Turks just off the course compared scores and swings and the older members sipped ruminative gins and tonic and waxed nostalgic about the last time the Amateur was played on their course . |