Example sentences of "last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you .
2 Erm , so volume has been gradually growing as the year progresses and erm , and more so in the last erm , the last say six weeks of the er , of the half year .
3 Vast stretches of mud , still wet from the last tide , glittered like a carpet of diamonds in the eerie light
4 Since the last Grant News was published changes and developments have affected several of the incentive schemes available for businesses from both national and EC sources .
5 However , the last West Country-hauled Waterloo to Salisbury service ran the day before with the 18.45 being headed by No. 34025 ‘ Whimple ’ .
6 And since every table in the application has triggers for primary and foreign keys and last update id and data information , he thinks 80% could go if the promised integrity enhancements features work .
7 And since every table in the application has triggers for primary and foreign keys and last update ID and data information , he thinks that 80% could go if the promised integrity enhancement features work .
8 Evan Dando and ‘ special ’ guest vocalist Juliana Hatfield are the college radio Sonny & Cher , the his'n'hers play-off sounding particularly sublime even when confined to just ‘ that bit at the end of the last chorus ’ .
9 Suddenly Douglas seemed to start cooling off , possibly because that last experience nearly ended his friendship with Lancaster .
10 Although not strictly part of the academic programme , this is considered to be an important part of the project because if you enjoy your last experience of school , then you 're more likely to return to studying something at a later stage in life .
11 Now , as he drank Robert 's champagne , and saw her , silent beside him , her head set downwards , a columbine on its stem , and as modestly inaccessible , Andrew knew that good manners and good sense told him to redress the misfortune of that last experience .
12 It had taken every ounce of courage she possessed to board the aircraft after her last experience .
13 Had he really chosen this pain as the way to spend his last minutes ?
14 Although he knew it was to soothe himself rather than a.i. ’ he spent a few last minutes communing with Thoth by neural link , explaining yet again how grieved he was to have to ask it to give its ‘ life ’ for him .
15 But in the last minutes of the game , after Phillip de Glanville had ripped open the defence for Hunter 's second try — leaving England 18–12 behind — England again lacked the cold , clinical brain the would open the way through the New Zealand defence .
16 The last minutes of their lives were pieced together by forensic teams hunting the killers .
17 A HUGE open-air concert has been cancelled at the last minutes over cash wrangles .
18 His penalty against Tarbes in the last minutes of the game levelled the score 18–18 .
19 The great Aboriginal winger , Chicka Ferguson , was on the wing with Canberra , and in the last minutes , when Balmain had already sent their two most powerful forwards off , and when Bob Hawke was already on his way down from the VIP box to present the shield to Balmain , Chicka scored a wonderfully impossible weaving and kinking try to tie the game .
20 It 's our duty anyway to get these words though the last minutes of discussion have been possibly the most valuable cos if we can not use language accurately
21 During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice .
22 From the last minutes ?
23 Some were lying on charpoys , snoozing away the last minutes before their first meal for thirteen hours .
24 If there was six foot four of muscle , tensed and angry in the last minutes of its life , and your only protection was some lunatic hoodlum standing to one side with a loaded pistol pointed in the general direction of the fray , would you leap in there ?
25 The emotions of the last minutes had drained her .
26 In the last minutes of the debate — the hon. Member for Birkenhead need not worry ; I am leaving him time within the advice that I have been given — I must mention the generality of the issues raised .
27 He brings with him his radio and prepares for — his — match with Lierse listening to BBC hoping for Leeds goals … and after the Wembley match he went straigth to Batty for changing shirts — i think he said that for the couple of last minutes that was the main thing — not that he had made a great goal or Norway getting a draw .
28 i can just verify that Frank is having talks with a spanish 1 div club ( i do nt think they have any ‘ premier div ’ down there — so first is first … ) — i guess Frank feels he does n't get the chance he + me + others thinks he deserves — Dino and Wallace just not delivering goals and Frank never getting more than the 10 last minutes from time to time .
29 And so here this rural craft er thing which I wrote for which you asked me which is arriving from the last minutes , is I 'll read it out to you .
30 Right , that 's matters arising from the last minutes , any other matters arising from the last minutes ?
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