Example sentences of "in the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the water in these aquifers comes from recharge in wetter areas nearby , but much of it is ‘ fossil water ’ , rain that fell in the last Ice Age . |
| 2 | In East Yorkshire they are glacial erratics , stones picked up in the last Ice Age , worn smooth , and deposited as the ice retreated . |
| 3 | ‘ They are excellent in the last lap . ’ |
| 4 | This usually leads to removal of the effect of any repeating pattern such as a 2 , 5 or 0 in the last digit because every digit in the number divided is involved in the division , and so may be altered . |
| 5 | It is only in the last generation that British education has begun to grasp the idea that schooling should maximise the opportunity of every individual child . |
| 6 | The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US . |
| 7 | This may help us to understand why it is that the family was never more expertly advised , psychoanalysed and researched , yet never has it fallen apart more dramatically than in the last generation . |
| 8 | ‘ In the last generation of Anglo-Saxon England ’ , writes H. R. Loyn , ‘ there were twenty known moneyers at work simultaneously in London ; more than ten at York ; at least nine in Lincoln and Winchester ; eight at least at Chester ; seven at least at Canterbury and Oxford ; and at least six at Gloucester , Thetford and Worcester . ’ |
| 9 | Juvenile lawlessness , he thought , represented ‘ a serious challenge , the difficulty of which is intensified by the extension of freedom which , for better or worse , has been given to youth in the last generation ’ . |
| 10 | Well what , of course , has happened in the last generation or two is the growth of poetry readings . |
| 11 | In the last trial of activists linked to the pro-democracy movement which ended in the massacre in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , the poet and theorist Wu Jiaxing was sentenced on Aug. 25 to three years ' imprisonment for " counter-revolutionary incitement and propaganda " , and then released for time served . |
| 12 | At Tibnin , the ruins are the highest point in the last village in southern Lebanon still held by a Muslim militia . |
| 13 | Already , the germ is present which was to flower most fully in The Last Battle : the idea of school holidays being a mere Platonic shadow of our permanent refreshment in Paradise , of our earthly homes being but a reflection of heaven . |
| 14 | There had been no Darkness in the stranger , and Hawk recalled that one of the spirit warriors who would stand with the One-Eyed White Girl in the last battle was called the Man Who Rides Alone . |
| 15 | The practice arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century within the ruling class . |
| 16 | Here a determined attempt was made in the last decades of the fourth century to uphold the ancient Roman religion along with the classical culture with which it was associated . |
| 17 | The Great Powers had been continually driven by the competition among themselves , but in the last decades of the nineteenth century their intensified rivalries included a host of newcomers — Germany and Italy , the two newest Great Powers in Europe , and , close behind , the United States and , in the Far East , Japan . |
| 18 | In particular , problems of the calendar were the driving force that led to the initial development of Greek mathematical astronomy in the last decades of the fifth century BC . |
| 19 | Since in the last decades of the twentieth century all valuations are in question , let us start by imagining a manner of life in which I do without them altogether . |
| 20 | Thereafter , male mortality rates in the last decades of life have been so much greater than those for females that a significant disparity has developed in the numbers of men and women in the older age-groups . |
| 21 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 22 | The history of TDC in the last decades has provided a remarkable case history of that problem , with examples of the arguments for and against each point of view . |
| 23 | They fervently believed that social phenomena could be analysed with the methods of the natural sciences , which enjoyed great prestige in the last decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Working-class life had changed , quite measurably , in the last decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | In the last decades of the nineteenth century certain new trends of long-term importance began to emerge . |
| 26 | The construction of recognisable , and still current , definitions of masculinity proceeded rapidly in the last decades of the nineteenth century , supplementing the earlier discussions . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , in the last decades of the nineteenth century we can observe a greater decorum amongst the working class as a whole , and the articulation of clear respectable standards amongst important strata of it . |
| 28 | The middle-class evangelism which attempted to transform working-class moral habits , which had continued throughout the century , accentuated in the last decades under the stress of perceived social tensions . |
| 29 | As a result we can observe the emergence in the last decades of the nineteenth century of a working-class culture whose prevailing tone was not one of political combativity , and yet which had firm moral standards of its own . |
| 30 | Surprisingly , in the last decades is that literary studies , perhaps especially classical studies , which may seem to be at the other extreme of the academic spectrum from the sciences , have shown themselves more self confident in the use of computers than history has done , even though history is closer to the social sciences which have for long been acclimatized to quantification and computerization . |