Example sentences of "last [noun sg] there have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last spring there 'd been a blackbird 's nest in the tree by the goal-post in the school playing-fields . |
| 2 | In the last decade there have been strike calls from county conferences in the more militant areas like Norfolk , Essex and Yorkshire , but the union 's Executive Committee , which has the sole right to order strike action , has sought to maintain centralized control over any militant activity . |
| 3 | In the last decade there have been dramatic developments in the treatment of infertility and artificial reproductive techniques . |
| 4 | In the last decade there has been a real failure to think differently , to find new solutions to replace the sterile , old Malthusian ones . |
| 5 | But over the last decade there has been a rapid acceleration in this type of transaction . |
| 6 | Thatcherism was born and during the last decade there has been record redundancies and bankruptcies within the U K as a whole . |
| 7 | Last night there had been Christmas bells ringing all over London . |
| 8 | Last night there had been six , then one had gone away … now there were six again . |
| 9 | He told me last week there had been more than 100 applicants for the Section Eight grants which encourage it . |
| 10 | The eighteenth century had been marked by keen intellectual enquiry and , among the educated class , some decline in devotion to revealed religion ; but at last leave-taking there had been little to disturb the old familiar ways ; the sense of continuity between life and death , between this world and the next , was carefully preserved . |
| 11 | Last birthday there had been a card from Gerry , written on shore leave and left with Mary for posting , yet now she was a woman alone . |
| 12 | Last year there had been a barbecue to round off the day , with the whole village joining in the fun , young and old enjoying themselves together . |
| 13 | And since October last year there 've been a series of applications at the High Court in London for the company to be wound up . |
| 14 | Listening to the news through a set of headphones is at the core of the work and for the last year there has been monitoring of television broadcasts by satellite . |
| 15 | Merseyside 's leading housing advice group also says that over the last year there has been a 100pc rise in the number of young homeless being referred to it . |
| 16 | The Chancellor told the Commons House Magazine : ‘ Penetrating the gloom of this last year there have been glimmers of good news . |
| 17 | On a positive note , in this last year there have been many achievements of major contracts completed and new business won in both nuclear and industrial sectors . |