Example sentences of "last [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10,000m nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to US president Jeff Sutherland . |
2 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10bn nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to ODB president Jeff Sutherland . |
3 | As well as attending most Easter Courses for the last eleven years I have assisted at Guide Camps for even longer enjoying at least one week a year far removed from houses , telephones and television — what bliss ! |
4 | We are the largest independent provider of practical home care to people with HIV/AIDS in the U.K. From 7 regional offices we have provided practical care to over 1000 people in the lat 3 years and in the last 12 months we cared for at least 1 in 5 of those who died of AIDS in the U.K. |
5 | ‘ We carefully assess our use of intensive care beds and over the last 12 months we have been a little concerned that , at times , they were full , ’ said Mr Murray . |
6 | During the last 12 months I have been very encouraged with the way you have continued to work effectively — meeting deadlines that seemed impossible and coming up with ideas for cost savings within your own departments . |
7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
8 | Over the last 30 years I have kept a fairly meticulous diary , and this includes not just fishing detail but an accurate record of the conditions . |
9 | ‘ Honestly God , if you had seen my performance reports for the last forty years you would not be offering me this position . ’ |
10 | During the last 10 years they had , Taylor explained , expended a large sum of money without deriving " any profit whatsoever " , and were inclined to hope that this and the further anticipated expense entitled them to consideration by " Royalty reduction or otherwise " . |
11 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
12 | ‘ In the last 10 years we 've created more jobs than ever before , higher living standards than ever before , better social services than ever before , higher living … |
13 | For the last 10 years I have worked to create environments for the millions of pilgrims who come to Saudi Arabia . |
14 | British Gas said that over the last 10 years it has lost about 2,000 workers a year with the switch to natural gas . |
15 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
16 | In the last six articles I tried not to describe any canoeing technique as right or wrong . |
17 | For the last six days they had clung to hope , but they finally felt it pulling away from them — the miracle they wanted just did not happen . |
18 | After missing him so desperately over the last six weeks it was more than she had ever dreamed of to find herself suddenly close to him again , and maybe by the time they reached their destination he would have given her some clue about the way he wanted things to be . |
19 | ‘ Well , I once said that the reason we went to America was to make money , but over the last six weeks I 've really changed my mind totally . |
20 | No , because over the last six years we 've actually gone from bottom of the pile to tenth from bottom . |
21 | In the last six years he had seen her occasionally — in the street , at the Ritz ( Plumford 's only cinema , which was known locally as the Fleapit ) and once at a party . |
22 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |
23 | Over the last six years I have been closely involved with the Institute of Linguists Community Interpreting Project , coordinated by Ann Coresellis whose paper this afternoon will be discussing the emergence and future of the profession of Community Interpreting . |
24 | I 'm pleased to say that in the course of the last six months we 've seen a strong recovery in profits . |
25 | then she said do you know these last six months we do nothing but argue she said we 've never argued so much ! |
26 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ muttered Phoebe ; she was not going to tell this woman that for the last six months she had done practically nothing else . |
27 | For the last six months I did erm ward sister duties . |
28 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
29 | And somewhere in the last six months he found time to contribute some enthusiastic atmospherics to New Order 's World Cup single , ‘ E Is For England ’ . |
30 | His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power . |