Example sentences of "the last " in BNC.
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| 31 | Perhaps the most usual description of aesthetic experience in the last hundred years has occurred when the critic has been faced with the need to react to one isolated work of art . |
| 32 | The literary naturalism of the last century went to the poor and itemised their way of life , producing for adversity truthful , distressing inventories and interiors — as in George Moore 's novel of the Nineties , Esther Waters , which starts with a manor-house , servants and horses , and travels to Soho for compulsive gambling and a fatal cough . |
| 33 | Hawksmoor , which came out in 1985 , was preceded by the Eliot biography of 1984 , which was preceded by The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde of the year before , and in 1987 these annual events were pressed upon by Chatterton . |
| 34 | Like Hawksmoor and The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde , this novel is a tour de force . |
| 35 | The last story has to do with the girlfriend of a friend . |
| 36 | In the last story Klima comes to see ‘ the connection between heights and vertigo , ecstasy and ruin , soaring and falling ’ . |
| 37 | The last Portuguese leave Luanda . |
| 38 | I do n't suggest that these unfavourable writings pushed him to do what he did , though I do n't mind suggesting that the bigotry and vicarious piety they may be reckoned to contain could be classed among the negative experiences of the last months of his life . |
| 39 | One of Kelman 's stories , ‘ Greyhound for Breakfast ’ , the last in the collection of that name which appeared in 1987 , is , to my mind , a masterpiece . |
| 40 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 41 | Vocational training for the actor as we know it has only existed in England for the last eighty years . |
| 42 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 43 | But it is certainly true that in the last sixty years the various schools and academies of acting have had a significant effect on the climate of acting . |
| 44 | Selections from the modern theatre may include characters that have been created over the last sixty years , from Noel Coward to Steven Berkoff . |
| 45 | Interestingly , though , most of the audition selections are chosen from work of the last twenty years ; most young students will go for contemporary work . |
| 46 | It is usual for a class to consist of between 12 and 16 students divided approximately equally between male and female , and this size of class is likely to be maintained throughout the training course until the finals period in the last two terms . |
| 47 | The last three months particularly are charged with electricity — and you are suddenly involved both in the throes of final productions and the ‘ business ’ of acting ; it all comes together in a thrilling rush , and the time goes quickly . |
| 48 | In the last terms of the diploma course students often find tutorials , where they are given opportunity to talk about work in progress , enormously valuable . |
| 49 | Altogether , tutorials take place over a period of about twenty-four weeks in the last year of a course , and usually by the last twelve tutorials a student has a much clearer idea of what he or she is about . |
| 50 | Altogether , tutorials take place over a period of about twenty-four weeks in the last year of a course , and usually by the last twelve tutorials a student has a much clearer idea of what he or she is about . |
| 51 | Different generations are well represented here , from the newest professional at the beginning of her career to two who have been in the business for the last forty years . |
| 52 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 53 | Sometimes you 're a week away from the last performance you gave and then find yourself out there — so that the voice and understanding of the part does need constant refreshing . |
| 54 | I can remember doing Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Theatre with the NYT and seeing all the scenery and lighting down on the stage at the end of the last performance and thinking how exciting it was to belong to the world of make-believe . |
| 55 | It was the last days of the old tradition , I suppose and I 'm glad I was lucky enough to be part of them . |
| 56 | Apart from the fact that there has been significant support for the alliance party over the last dozen years or so among the catholic middle classes , there is also a further factor . |
| 57 | While in the last century there was still some attempt to embrace all people in Ireland as the Irish nation , now the nation subsists in the Irish catholic population . |
| 58 | The economic growth of the 1960s and early 1970s came to grief because of the western economic slump of the last decade and the massive increase in the Southern population . |
| 59 | In the debates over the last twenty years there has been considerable interplay of theological and sociological reasoning , with social scientists also contributing to papers and discussions . |
| 60 | The last imitation , he wrote . |