Example sentences of "of the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim Vengerov Young Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov , unanimous winner of the last Carl Flesch Competition , plays two performances of Tchaikovsky 's Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic and conductor Zubin Mehta . |
| 2 | This included important towns and cities such as Coventry and Brighton , but others were also opened in Pontypridd , Salisbury , Cambridge , and Exeter — the last being one of the last cities where a deaf school had been long established to found an adult institute . |
| 3 | Cauthen 's prolific American contemporary , Cash Asmussen , will miss four booked rides at Ascot as he pulled muscles in his neck when falling from his mount who crossed his legs at the start of the last race at Maisons-Laffitte yesterday . |
| 4 | Those traditions — the ‘ crash , bang , wallop ’ , the nail biting excitement of the last ball finish that created the huge swell in popularity of the one-day jamboree — were conspicuous by their absence in the World Cup . |
| 5 | Africa is now littered with the discarded blueprints of the last quarter of a century . |
| 6 | The visiting shooter hit excellent from during the second quarter , but so did Hawtin and Talbot in the third and Ants had edged into a 24–21 lead at the start of the last quarter . |
| 7 | The Governors referred back to Hamilton the matter of terms and of advertisements giving notice of the change , and with that was concluded the business of the last quarter of quartered years at the School . |
| 8 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 9 | The potential growth areas mentioned by Herb Nahapiet of repairs , maintenance and refurbishment , and partnering and joint ventures , are much more deeply embedded in the lives of people than were the products of the socially aggressive development style of the last quarter of a century . |
| 10 | Whereas the serial usage of Example 139 ( the same series in each voice ) easily avoids the occurrence of octaves , octaves are formed only too easily when we use different forms together , as on the second quaver of the last bar , where all voices sound D or E♭ . |
| 11 | The text ends with the words ‘ for although at strict law the heirs should be held by no action to build a monument , none the less they are compelled by pontifical or imperial authority to observance of the last wishes [ of the deceased ] ’ . |
| 12 | The Toyota Bramham International Three Day event will be one of the last outings for Britain 's top riders before the Olympic Games . |
| 13 | Within the ranks of the nobility , the king 's youngest sons in particular benefited from the fall of the courtiers : Edmund Langley was appointed Constable of Dover Castle , an office previously held by Latimer , while Woodstock was granted the office of Constable of England , which was hereditary in the Bohun family but had been delegated when necessary to other lords after the death of the last Earl of Hereford , Woodstock 's father-in-law . |
| 14 | Beginning to wish he had never come , Mungo stood on the threshold of the last door . |
| 15 | I always thought I got cast in The Graduate because I was one of the last ones to be seen . |
| 16 | We 're the last , one of the last ones in our road ! |
| 17 | I did a few of the last ones but . |
| 18 | Elizabeth was not altogether in favour of the last choice but as Lamb was now officially betrothed to Martha , she had given in . |
| 19 | The false starts of the last couple of years have forced a much more flexible approach to budgeting , management of the supply chain , staff scheduling and so on . |
| 20 | Unisoft Inc , the London and New York-based Unix house that has been quietly transforming itself into a system integrator and bespoke application developer has broken its near silence of the last couple of years and come out with what it calls a ‘ highly portable ’ version of Unix V.4 — UniPlus+ SVR4/MIPS . |
| 21 | The postulate will hold good , however , under the definitions of the last couple of paragraphs . |
| 22 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 23 | The Government fatally underestimate how very chastened many consumers are by the harsh experience of the last couple of years . |
| 24 | I suppose TV companies could potentially show both matches if they were on different nights , but if they do n't matter who 's gon na watch two nights of essentially meaningless football ? ( this of course is only true of the last couple of rounds of qualification ) . |
| 25 | Measurement distortion will occur if the height of the last column is not exactly twice that of the first . |
| 26 | George and Tony used to pay themselves £350 a week after setting up the firm at the height of the last recession in 1982 . |
| 27 | Company liquidations have increased more sharply recently than at the same stage of the last recession , when defaults significantly lagged the deterioration in companies ' financial position , but corporate indebtedness has been much higher both at the outset of the recession and subsequently . |
| 28 | It shows how the present position compares with the depths of the last recession in 1982 when 23 per cent of such companies were at risk . |
| 29 | If you had lifted the dresses of the Krishnapur ladies on that morning of the last assault , you would have found them correspondingly bare-legged , for it was they who had donated their stockings to help solve Harry 's difficulty with his brass cannon Because , incredible though it may seem , he had fired so many round shot in the course of the siege that the muzzle had been hammered into an ellipse . |
| 30 | So the persistence of the last male to mate her is rewarded , as he is father to most of the kits . |