Example sentences of "taken [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 2 | Gallup ( in the UK ) and Starch ( in the USA ) used to run so-called ‘ reading and noting ’ surveys regularly , in which readers of a magazine are taken through the last issue and questioned about every page — whether they looked at it at all ; read some of it ; read all of it ; etc . |
| 3 | He has informed his doctors and begun the painful process to negate the effects of the hormones he has taken for the last nine months . |
| 4 | A Gallup Poll taken in the last three weeks of 1959 found that only one person in fourteen listed among their major worries the international situation . |
| 5 | That was taken in the last few years , er I j I I 've never bothered about clothes in my entire life . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what action he has taken in the last six months to protect hosiery and knitwear manufacturers from dumped third-world imports . |
| 7 | That er , er , little action has been taken in the last thirty forty years since this has been being discussed , erm , I think the first international conference erm , produced their own report in nineteen sixty . |
| 8 | With improved personal relationships , however , steps have been taken in the last few years towards closer links . |
| 9 | In a study of the use of British Rail for long journeys , a random sample of households is selected and each member is asked to list all railway journeys over 40 miles taken in the last 12 months . |
| 10 | Yesterday Essex were taken to the last over by first-class newcomers Durham before securing a four-wicket win in a 50-over friendly at Chelmsford . |
| 11 | However we realise that the decision to book an Amsterdam short break is often taken at the last minute and as we are specialists in arranging holidays at very short notice all bookings made within 7 days of departure are given ‘ PRIORITY STATUS ’ . |
| 12 | As a salute to a century of change , the route between London and Paignton was the same taken by the last of the broad gauge trains in 1892 . |