Example sentences of "last few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she will in fact serve her last few shifts at the new community hospital at Treloar 's , it was her wish to hold her retirement party at Alton General Hospital before it closed . |
| 2 | As a final refinement , you will probably find that the last few frames of each shot on the copy assembly are over-recorded at the edits . |
| 3 | We 'll then drive the last few metres to the Colombi . |
| 4 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
| 5 | I first started to go when they were getting promotion to the second division the last few matches in the third division . |
| 6 | It seems that he believes in destiny , is loath to prevent fate from running its inevitable course , in the last few pages of the play . |
| 7 | As he later explained , he deliberately dallied over the last few runs in order to let his partner , Peach , reach his double-century . |
| 8 | For travellers to the United States in the last few decades of the nineteenth century the immigrants to be seen at stations in the West , particularly in Omaha , were one of the most striking images of their visits . |
| 9 | Paid holidays , more affluence and cheaper travel have turned the last few decades into an era of travel . |
| 10 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 11 | And how enervating , how disappointing , how absolutely … crushing to realise that nothing has changed — over the last few decades at least — and that for many women , their primary response is still to be beautiful rather than brainy . |
| 12 | A further aspect of the family , linking these ideas of privacy , home and self-expression , has received considerable attention in the last few decades with the growth of popular psychology manuals on how to enjoy or improve married sex and , more recently , encounter groups and sexual therapy . |
| 13 | There have certainly been marked changes in Britain during the last few decades in both the ideals and practicalities of family life . |
| 14 | It certainly begins to seem as though the materialist philosophy of the last few decades in the West was a myth just like any other , now that science is getting so weird , what with particles travelling back in time , and the fantastic strangeness of the new cosmology and chaos theory ( all those pretty Mandelbrot sets , and stuff about butterflies in China causing storms over the Atlantic ties in perfectly with the New Spirituality ) . |
| 15 | Oh I 'm sorry , but there was only that one which is all , it 's got her latest stuff on it , I 'm not really keen on anything else , it 's got those last , you know the sort of her last few records of it , on it I should say I did n't know there was any others around , when I told you I wanted the Cher one , it was the one that was out now not the old ones . |
| 16 | Finally , proceed in the last few minutes to the last two of the seven stages — IL and E. |
| 17 | erm Right on the last few minutes with five minutes to go erm the erm Steven was again through and Leach had to go full length to save . |
| 18 | What you will think of it , I suspect , depends on your zodiac sign or whether you blubbed through the last few minutes of Peter Weir 's Dead Poets Society . |
| 19 | With the crews overlapping until the last few minutes of the 4¼-mile race , it had been a gruelling test for all . |
| 20 | I just caught the last few minutes of a Yorkshire TV documentary , ‘ England 's Last Wilderness ’ , with David Bellamy burbling about the Pennines . |
| 21 | In the last few minutes of the Committee stage we had an interesting debate when the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) defended what had happened . |
| 22 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 23 | The last few minutes of the play were , Shaffer told me ‘ simply an object lesson in comic timing . |
| 24 | I saw the last few minutes of the game when I got back from the pub last night and was amazed to hear some commentator say ‘ Manchester United have n't lost at home in the European Cup for 37 years ’ . |
| 25 | Ballater , in the last few minutes of his visit , praised his performance as a pianist and the atmosphere became more cordial . |
| 26 | Having spent the last few minutes in preparation for the strain of an interview with Davout , Thiercelin almost visibly relaxed . |
| 27 | But the last few minutes before their arrival fled by . |
| 28 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's as if only the last few hours of my life were real . |
| 30 | Sickness rose , vying with the pain , as she found herself piecing together the last few hours of Mark 's life . |