Example sentences of "[prep] this last " in BNC.

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1 I wrote about this last month .
2 Again we talked about this last week , fifty weeks of the year you toil and you look forward to your holiday months in advance , you then take your holiday and somehow it recharges your batteries so that you 're ready to do battle again for the next fifty weeks .
3 What about this last one ?
4 We we we also Sally and I were talking about this last week , we said often you know you get you can get bankrupt stock
5 One of the great advantages of the advent of councillor and councillor to this council is in fact because of the motions which , I have to say even nine times out of ten I do n't agree with a word of , or even ninety nine times out of a hundred I do n't agree with a word of what have we been talking about this last three quarters of an hour , housing , yeah .
6 Every soul in this place was carried off this last springtime .
7 Examples such as this last raise the issue of the extent to which employers in manufacturing are using temporary working as a substitute for the recruitment of employees on a regular basis .
8 During this last period , Marx made detailed studies of the work of historians and lawyers who discussed traditional peasant communities , whether in Europe or Asia , and above all he studied the work of contemporary anthropologists who discussed primitive societies .
9 During this last year she was a finalist in the Woking Young Musician competition and won the Dr. Clifford Page Cup for the most outstanding instrumentalist at the Aldershot and Farnborough Festival .
10 And then , during this last summer , Nan had said , ‘ You know , one day he 'll break your jaw and then it 'll be too late . ’
11 It is hard to tell what he was thinking during this last conversation with Fleury when he said : " Oh , ideas … "
12 Not surprisingly a strong field has assembled for this last tournament of the year in Britain .
13 Slovenes voted for this last December ; in Croatia on May 19th 94% of those voting ( in an 83% turnout ) opted for a sovereign Croatia ( see box on previous page ) .
14 Licence Revoked was originally going to be the title for this last Bond film , and if only they had .
15 It is what the whole nation has worked for this last few years . ’
16 The DoE 's claimed justification for this last step was medical advice from the DHSS , although , as we have seen , this interpretation owes at least as much to administrative convenience as to scientific advice .
17 ‘ They 've only got twelve in a form , sir , ’ Deirdre McTavish — better known as Nutty — pointed out the obvious reason for this last coincidence .
18 Those sections , dealing in turn with the origins of life and man , the exploration of our Solar System , medical research , and finally sundry technologies , have — except for this last section — been organised with considerable coherence .
19 There was no need for this last nervous remark to the controller , but I 'd had enough !
20 Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence .
21 Support for this last conjecture is provided by radio continuum observations of filaments which form an arc-like structure near l=0.1° ( 14pc ) ( Fig. 6 b ) .
22 The sums granted for this last purpose in 1993–94 will not be as closely earmarked as was the £15m specifically designated for books in 1991–92 and 1992–93 .
23 A key figure for this last task was the archbishop of Canterbury , but not all were as reliable or as effective on the king 's behalf as Sudbury proved to be : Islip ( 1349–66 ) had not secured the sexennial grant requested in 1356 , although probably even Sudbury would have had problems with such an extreme proposal ; and after Sudbury , Courtenay ( 1381–96 ) was not always obliging .
24 " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " .
25 ‘ No , Father Abbot , for this last move was different .
26 She felt that all compassion must have passed from Emilia with the emptying of her womb except for this last residue that smouldered in the promise she exacted now .
27 Now for this last time , I beg you to attend to your poor Herbert .
28 We had hoped to be able to support measures on so-called joyriding , on the establishment of an Environmental Protection Agency and on better employment conditions for women , but it appears that the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for this last came too recently for its inclusion in the Queen 's Speech .
29 Other Latin American countries at various stages of the full or provisional accession process at the end of 1989 were El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras and Paraguay ( for this last country see p. 36688 ) , while working parties had also been established on requests for accession by Tunisia ( which had acceded provisionally in 1960 ) , Bulgaria ( see p. 35030 ) and Algeria .
30 Only the result for this last patient is noted to have influenced the choice of operation .
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