Example sentences of "during the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 2 | It seems Cantona believed he would be a permanent fixture in the side this season after his supporting role helped inspire Leeds to the Championship during the last campaign . |
| 3 | With the installation of the engines , Bob MacSmythurs , the chief engineer , had gone down to Lowestoft to stand by the ship during the last stages of installing the complex machinery . |
| 4 | Anxiety on this score became acute during the last decades of the fourth century , and the first of the fifth . |
| 5 | In order to appreciate the significance of Dicey 's views on democracy we should recall , in particular , the fact that political opinion during the last decades of the nineteenth century was dominated by a concern with the rise of democracy . |
| 6 | Despite the difficulties of wars , these precociously integrated firms experienced significant growth during the last decades of the century . |
| 7 | Pressures and activities of this kind were a facet of the increasingly active discussion of problems of international peace , and the ways in which it might be preserved , which were preoccupying many radicals and idealists in western Europe during the last decades before the war . |
| 8 | During the last working session of the UNCLOS , arrangements were made to give guaranteed access to those countries and companies which had made substantial investments in deep-seabed mining in the past . |
| 9 | During the last working day of the visit , Sept. 6 , Yon made a courtesy call on South Korean President Roh Tae Woo , and received Roh 's personal message for the North Korean leader Kim Il Sung . |
| 10 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 11 | During the last recession , in the mid 1980s , Wimpol out-performed all other survey companies . |
| 12 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 13 | One of two illuminated Standard cars , 159 , seen here at North Station during the last weekend of that route in 1963 . |
| 14 | In contrast to this static , theatrical production , during the last weekend of the 1988 York Festival the last four mystery plays were re-enacted as they would have been in the fifteenth century . |
| 15 | During the last weekend , Liberal Democrats have lashed their foot to the organ pedal that third parties must play loudest : confidentia , con brio . |
| 16 | Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me . |
| 17 | During the last winter of the war she became pregnant again , but only to suffer another miscarriage in the New Year . |
| 18 | The whingeing , as they see it , that takes place in the British press angers many West Indians , as Viv Richards demonstrated with his outburst in Antigua during the last Test of 1989–90 . |
| 19 | During the last hour . |
| 20 | The riverside warehouses of the London docklands have become favourite subjects for this treatment during the last decade and an outstanding conversion of one such building — Thames Tunnel Mills — is described in this chapter , while the final chapter of the book contains an analysis of a similar building that has been converted to house a range of new uses , including sixty apartments . |
| 21 | The bronze statue of Boadicea , in her chariot , which can be seen on the Thames Embankment at Westminster Bridge , is the work of Hamo Thornycroft , R.A. , who had a studio in Holland Park , but it proved too small , so he removed it to the ‘ tin tabernacle ’ which Sir John Isaac Thornycroft , F.R.S. , had built as a workshop in the gardens of Walpole House on Chiswick Mall , during the last decade of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | However , the article goes on , during the last decade , a United Nations Organization programme has been coordinating the work of environmentalists to halt the scale of pollution , although political will by individual governments is also essential if the fragile ecosystem is to be preserved . |
| 23 | Such parties are becoming rare , and the winter population has probably declined during the last decade . |
| 24 | Although there have been many useful publications in the field of special educational needs during the last decade , the distinguishing feature of the present series of volumes lies in their concern with specific areas of the curriculum in primary and secondary schools . |
| 25 | During the last decade or so , however , an interest in and recognition of the importance of religion in society has re-emerged . |
| 26 | During the last decade or so cephalaspids have been re-examined in great detail . |
| 27 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 28 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 29 | A similar picture emerges from a comparison of the salaries of men and women in non-manual occupations — the slight narrowing of the gap taking place during the last decade . |
| 30 | His work represents the Parisian street and night life during the last decade of the 19th century . |