Example sentences of "last [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first and second of these may be thought of , roughly , as equivalent to capital market constraints implemented by the stock market and banks ; the last as a form of managerial labour market constraint . |
| 2 | I mean I 've known little strikes there last about a couple of days and they all got over it . |
| 3 | The last of a row of elms near the Rookery were cut down in 1898 . |
| 4 | Mrs Fletcher was bending over the last of a bed of weeds , hoping finally to rid herself of them before her husband returned from the potato harvesting . |
| 5 | First impressions were favourable , as we rounded the last of a succession of hairpin bends . |
| 6 | Steele kicked an early penalty goal and the last of a series of raking diagonal kicks down the wind forced Kilford into touch near his line . |
| 7 | DERBY ROAD Motive Power Depot was the last of a series of locomotive sheds built in Southport by the various pregrouping railways . |
| 8 | It was the last of a series of four little booklets which I published myself and sold to Elizabeth David Ltd. for the Pimlico kitchen utensil shop I had launched in 1965 . |
| 9 | ‘ The tenant here died after the date of the order for recovery of possession against him but before the expiration of the last of a series of extensions which had been made by way of postponement of the date on which the order was to be complied with . |
| 10 | The meeting in Caracas was the last of a series of five meetings planned in February 1989 to reactivate the Andean Pact . |
| 11 | The CDU 's choice of Schäuble , 49 , who had been confined to a wheelchair since an attempt on his life in October 1990 [ see p. 37763 ] , was the last of a series of leadership elections by all four main parties in November . |
| 12 | Bannon was the last of a group of ALP leaders — including Bob Hawke , federal Prime Minister from 1983 to 1991 , and former state premiers Neville Wran , John Cain and Brian Burke — who had revitalized the party in the wake of its 1975 ejection from office . |
| 13 | Thus , in part , a causal circumstance is such that if it occurred , then even if there also occurred any change logically consistent with it and its effect , the effect occurred — or , it was the first and the effect was the last of a sequence of things such that the given connection obtained between each thing and its successor . |
| 14 | In the late afternoon of the second of June a courier rode into Aber on a reeking horse , the last of a chain of messengers who had carried urgent news from Cydewain . |
| 15 | Tony Clark struck the front on Free At Last with a quarter of a mile to cover , and his mount held off Qui Danzig by a neck . |
| 16 | Armed at last with a definition of obscenity , Victorian prosecutors proceeded to destroy many examples of fine literature and scientific speculation . |
| 17 | A girl appeared in a black sloppy jumper , getting the last from a bottle of Squeezy , her hair up all round with wisps like a Victorian , like ( almost remembering , grabbing squirts it away ) my Ma … ( now I see her ) before she went ( now I do n't ) … away . |
| 18 | He says this last in a tone of frustrated anguish : it 's almost an appeal for somebody to enlighten him . |
| 19 | The stronger sense of is strike off " , wrench loose " , and this is surely the last in a progression of " violent " verbs , beginning with diffugere and going on through and before coming to ( or rather , ) at the poem 's despairing close . |
| 20 | His own scar , he said … in a particularly violent duel … the last in a succession of three … the first two of which he had been fortunate enough to win … and would the young lady of the house be kind enough to bring him and his friends a bottle of her father 's excellent port ? … |
| 21 | This is the last in a series of nine articles examining the problems in medical education and their possible solutions |
| 22 | The third and last in a series of conferences under the Washington process on aid to the countries of the former Soviet Union was held in Tokyo on Oct. 29 and 30 [ for previous conferences , in Washington and Lisbon , see pp. 38730 ; 38922-3 ] , attended by the leaders of the 12 New Independent States ( NIS — the 11 CIS states and Georgia ) and more than 60 donor countries . |
| 23 | Dick Morrow , Tufting Technician upgrades the last in a series of tufting machines at BMK with modular needles . |
| 24 | The last in a series of four ‘ readers ’ linked to a new Open University course ‘ Issues in Women 's Studies ’ , Imagining Women deals with feminism and knowledge , gender and social science , science and technology , and cultural representation respectively . |
| 25 | Like a camera my restless mind followed the rabid mongrels of Puno as they roamed down the narrow streets , through the tight patchwork of market stalls , over the rubble-lined railway track , to fight at last over a pair of cow 's horns I had seen earlier topping a pile of refuse . |
| 26 | Amoeba-like it pulsated on the racks , changing shape from week to week , gaining sections then cutting then reinstating them , switching typefaces and altering the magazine 's format , this last at a cost of £1.8m . |