Example sentences of "make [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Composing himself , Sir Michael pressed on : ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend reflect on the great progress that has been made during the last 10 years in the well-being of our country and the competitiveness of our industries and … |
| 2 | At the moment the price for North Sea oil is just over $18 , $4 less than average industry forecasts made during the last few years when we were building our portfolio . |
| 3 | These drawings were always made between the last few days of August and the end of October . |
| 4 | In nineteen ninety three , four we made a seventy one thousand reduction in economic development , and this year we 're proposing to make a fifty thousand , there 're actually cuts I think , that any committee of any council has made for the last three years . |
| 5 | In his paper Meade was concerned that the mistakes made after the last war should be avoided . |
| 6 | A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years . |
| 7 | It was it 's a previous budget decision , I want to make that point , it was made before the last budget , and this has been a sort of a year of negotiations , that 's the first point and |
| 8 | Many MPs suspect no announcement on the decision will be made until the last day before the summer recess to avoid a Parliamentary row . |
| 9 | The desk — one of a limited edition of 250 — has been made from the last commercially viable elm wood left in Britain . |
| 10 | Fergie was not , strictly speaking , Diana 's type ; she was certainly not like her old friends , nor indeed many of the friends she has made in the last few years . |
| 11 | Here a determined attempt was made in the last decades of the fourth century to uphold the ancient Roman religion along with the classical culture with which it was associated . |
| 12 | In Britain also , there is recognition that the progress that has been made in the last fifteen years in increasing the pool of professionally-trained social workers must be matched by similar efforts to upgrade the skills of the paraprofessional work force if the quality of social service provision is to be adequate . |
| 13 | The discoveries made in the last 30 years about the action of drugs on the brain are important medically and philosophically . |
| 14 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 15 | Battle of Waterloo Model : A rare model , made in the last century , with thousands of lead soldiers depicting scenes from the famous battle . |
| 16 | No matter what great advances have been made in the last 12–18 months , there is still an awful lot of blood being shed in the country . |
| 17 | To maintain the advances that it has made in the last few years , Unix needs not only a ‘ viable ’ desktop environment , argues UI , but an attractively sized market for developers to aim at . |
| 18 | Identify the contribution to profit you have made in the last four weeks . |
| 19 | Lastly , the Spanish Government argued that the possibility afforded by the Act of 1988 of exempting certain persons from the nationality condition to which reference was made in the last part of the national court 's question ( 2 ) in no way altered the foregoing considerations . |
| 20 | To summarise this section on education : substantial progress has been made in the last twenty years in relation to the reduction of sex inequalities in education . |
| 21 | The corollary of this is that any receipts received or payments made in the current financial year which relate to accruals made in the last financial year , will not affect the current year 's profit figures . |
| 22 | What progress has the human family made in the last two decades towards fulfilling the basic needs of its poorest members ? |
| 23 | I would also appreciate a brief summary of the number and size of acquisitions your company has made in the last three years . |
| 24 | Second I want to say a few words about the efforts that have been made in the last twelve months to increase the G M B's role in the building and civil engineering industries and third I want to say something about the present serious situation in the building industry pay talks . |
| 25 | Elsewhere in the town the number of burglaries remains high but there have also been a large number of arrests made in the last seven days . |
| 26 | Brian Clough , the Forest manager , said : ‘ His contract was not expiring but he deserved a rise for the contribution he has made over the last 12 months -so he earned himself a new deal . ’ |
| 27 | He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property . |
| 28 | As such , they are extremely valuable and their accuracy is known to have improved considerably as a result of methodological improvements made over the last few years ( OPCS , 1980 ; Craig and Broad , 1982 ) . |
| 29 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 30 | Add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay day before the PIW began and any other payments made since the pay day which was at least eight weeks before that . |