Example sentences of "after the last " in BNC.

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1 Sow the seeds in a propagator at 64°F ( 19°C ) in Feb/March , and set out young plants in the garden in late May , or after the last likely frosts in your area .
2 This rejection of a distant headquarters and enhancement of their own special identity occurred some seven years after the last amalgamation .
3 They get mad here after the last wisp of hay — I 've seen old women down on their knees , gleaning it with their fingers . ’
4 After the last rise in base rates , all sources of advice to the Chancellor do seem to have taken the view through the summer that the squeeze was working .
5 After the last Python show in 1974 Chapman pooped the party again .
6 For that reason , the result of the appeal may not be made known until after the last race on 5 November .
7 WAYNE LARKINS , shunted into the sidings after the last of his six Test caps in 1981 , has been recalled to the England team for their one-day match against a Railway XI in Delhi today .
8 A few minutes later , feeling decidedly the worse for wear after the last Armagnac had been downed , Mark moved unsteadily into the lift with his voluptuous mate .
9 And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen .
10 Half the racing world seemed to have embraced the occasion , for which after the last race that afternoon there had been much speedy unrolling of glittering black and silver ceiling-to-floor curtaining , transforming the workaday interior of the grandstand into something ephemerally magnificent .
11 Labour 's traditional commitment to restoring full employment was dropped during a policy review after the last general election as an impractical hostage to fortune and does not appear in the party 's manifesto .
12 But Flap Jack , successful in his previous run in a Holderness Maiden , caught the leader after the last to win .
13 We found the nest derelict after the last bad weather , the hedgehog dead and deflated , looking rather like a cheap toupee among the leaves .
14 It is reassuring to know that his duties will include responsibility for the BBC , for as George Walden argues on this page , it was he who rescued the Broadcasting Bill after the last Thatcher government made such a hash of television deregulation .
15 The late-glacial period comprises the time of deglaciation after the last glacial maximum , and reflects major climatic amelioration .
16 But even there they were not to be left alone , and after the last campaign the conquest ended ignominiously as it had begun with the summary execution of Tupac Amaru , thirty-nine years after Atahualpa , his uncle .
17 The response remained habituated on a test session given 24 h after the last pre-exposure session ; but when the tone was then paired with shock , conditioned responding developed readily , that is , there was no sign or latent inhibition .
18 But I was to discover another facet of Soviet hospital life when , after the last meal of the day at six o'clock , I became aware of a plaintive female voice outside my window .
19 According to one Chinese doctor writing in the Journal of the American Venereal Disease Association in 1975 , the incidence of venereal disease was 4 per cent for town dwellers and 1 per cent for the rural population after the last war .
20 Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’
21 Even though this was Jack 's own tournament , I decided to quit Jack after the last event of 1983 , the Chrysler Invitation , and start fresh with Greg next year .
22 Sam took Nutty and her team up in the car straight after the last lesson ; Nails had not been around which was just as well as the car did not hold more than five .
23 Arthur , you go along of Willie , because the Pritchards do n't sleep , you know , and in one way or another they 'll get you , or have a damn good try after the last business .
24 The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing .
25 ‘ I was at Oxford after the last war .
26 They would all seem like old friends after the last few days .
27 He had been at Cambridge just after the last war , had fought with the International Brigade in Spain and had joined the R.A.F. as an air-gunner in 194O .
28 German war records rescued after the last war showed that Hitler 's use of astrology was one of the major causes for his demise .
29 We have studied the sediment from the bottom of Loch Ness and Loch Morar to discover whether the sea entered either of them after the last ice age .
30 Sealink and P&O , with an estimated 80% share of the short-route ferry market , are pinning their hopes for the future on large capacity super-ferries and changes in manning procedures introduced after the last seamen 's strike .
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