Example sentences of "were the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to deal sensibly with the craze unless we remember that it is the latest in a series of recognisably similar phenomena , which the law has had difficulty in regulating : the early ‘ happenings ’ , influenced by LSD ; the ‘ blues parties ’ , which were the last to hit the headlines ; the continuing ‘ northern soul ’ craze , and no doubt others which even the participants have long since forgotten . |
| 2 | The latest batch , showing a deficit of £2bn for the month of August , were the last straw . |
| 3 | Perhaps they were the last days before the final eclipse . |
| 4 | Gone were the last vestiges of normality . |
| 5 | They were the last words they spoke to each other . |
| 6 | Head of state and chairman of the National Defence Council were the last two posts that Mr Krenz , aged 52 , held after resigning as Communist Party chief last Sunday . |
| 7 | Head of state and chairman of the National Defence Council were the last two posts that Mr Krenz , aged 52 , held after resigning as Communist Party chief last Sunday . |
| 8 | Head of state and chairman of the National Defence Council were the last two posts that Mr Krenz , aged 52 , held after resigning as Communist Party chief last Sunday . |
| 9 | The exchanges were exceptionally unfruitful because of Mr Berge 's way of delivering every reply as if it were the last word any resonable man would wish to hear on that particular matter . |
| 10 | It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population — meat , bacon and butter were the last things to be freed . |
| 11 | Getty believed in self-help , the philosophy of Samuel Smiles , though smiles were the last thing he could manage in public . |
| 12 | Those were the last human voices I heard all day . |
| 13 | They ousted the Gallic landowners who were the last remnants of the Roman Empire , conquered the Visigoths in the south of France , and fought other Germanic tribes , such as the Burgundians and the Alamanni , who were already settled there . |
| 14 | Fortunately , those 600 were the last for those shoes as Nike came round with a pair , but Zarei did seem disappointed at the lack of regular sponsorship . |
| 15 | These cars were the last to be constructed by English Electric for Blackpool , and the last trams that they built in their East Works , now used by British Aerospace . |
| 16 | ‘ We made it , and Chapman and I were the last on to the train . |
| 17 | If she were the last lassie in the world I couldny |
| 18 | But if airships were the last word in luxury then the penultimate word belonged to the flying boat . |
| 19 | The yews were the last to lose their identity , they were little notes of blackness . |
| 20 | By 1928 the Kaszubes numbered around 110,000 , and they and the few thousand speakers of Leban dialect were the last survivors of the original Slav settlers of Pomerania . |
| 21 | In July 1939 , a group of fifteen children from Great Engeham and Whittingham Farm School left for Palestine , but they were the last until after the war . |
| 22 | as if realising that these were the last days of his anonymity , he took to walking the New York streets at night , staring into people 's faces . |
| 23 | I said they were the last pair of my nylons , memorial to my relationship with Blanche . |
| 24 | Also relating to the issue of reliance on the accounts , I should correct the statement in your report that ‘ the 1982 accounts were the last audit completed and signed ’ . |
| 25 | . they were the last words he spoke for 2 and a half years |
| 26 | Those were the last words I heard him say for over two years . |
| 27 | Unaware that these were the last rites of disco , the aliens reported back to their Mistress ruler on the home planet . |
| 28 | He had been doing road duty when the first wagons rolled past , with a US Cavalry Escort , and he had looked upon the face of the Josephite leader and known that these were the last days of the world . |
| 29 | These were the Last Days , and soon would come the cleansing fire . |
| 30 | ‘ We were the last people Frankie visited before flying home . |