Example sentences of "last [num] [noun] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as attending most Easter Courses for the last eleven years I have assisted at Guide Camps for even longer enjoying at least one week a year far removed from houses , telephones and television — what bliss ! |
| 2 | During the last 12 months I have been very encouraged with the way you have continued to work effectively — meeting deadlines that seemed impossible and coming up with ideas for cost savings within your own departments . |
| 3 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 4 | Over the last 30 years I have kept a fairly meticulous diary , and this includes not just fishing detail but an accurate record of the conditions . |
| 5 | For the last 10 years I have worked to create environments for the millions of pilgrims who come to Saudi Arabia . |
| 6 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 7 | In the last six articles I tried not to describe any canoeing technique as right or wrong . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I once said that the reason we went to America was to make money , but over the last six weeks I 've really changed my mind totally . |
| 9 | Over the last six years I have been closely involved with the Institute of Linguists Community Interpreting Project , coordinated by Ann Coresellis whose paper this afternoon will be discussing the emergence and future of the profession of Community Interpreting . |
| 10 | For the last six months I did erm ward sister duties . |
| 11 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 12 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
| 13 | During the last three years I 've become accustomed to refinement . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I am really pleased that over the last three years I have been able to show that part-time working can work without any difficulty . |
| 15 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 16 | And the last three weeks I 've put on road safety because I know there 's a lot of road safety stuff |
| 17 | During the last three seasons I 've had four major matches , including two at Wembley , ruined . |
| 18 | Yeah well it 's rare for me to come to the doctor 's but last three week I 've been here like every week , kind of thing . |
| 19 | I am 59 years of age and for the last fourteen years I have had curly perms . |
| 20 | I 've been very happy with Oxford the last 6 year I 've been racing for them . |
| 21 | Over the last ten years I 've gone through different phases and characters . |
| 22 | Over the last ten years I 've gone through different phases and characters . |
| 23 | Glen Lyons , consultant trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic , says : ‘ In the last five years I 've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of women suffering from hair and scalp conditions , particularly the speeding up of genetic hair loss . |
| 24 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 25 | Through reorganizing my course material over the last five years I have come to the conclusion that there is no one definitive structure for the study of electronic publishing . |
| 26 | Over the last five years I have moved into working with practising teachers and other members of the education service . |
| 27 | and twice in the last nine months I 've been in the United States and I was amazed at the number of very large women |
| 28 | During the last 23 years I have looked at thousands of so-called accidents in many countries . |
| 29 | Over the last twenty years I have been active in our hobby , I have lost count of the number of detectors I have used . |
| 30 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |