Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 2 | Their calibre , though , is impossible to deny : listen to the last half of Divine Madness and you 'll hear the most consistently pugnacious and provocative music British pop has turned up in the last 15 years . |
| 3 | SCOTLAND HAS failed to fill the entrepreneurial gap which has opened up over the last decade since the decline of the nationalised and heavy industries , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , will acknowledge next week . |
| 4 | Such a change would set the final seal on what is perhaps the most radical transformation Japan has gone through in the last few decades : the disappearance of the farming community as a fundamental axis of politics , the economy and society and the emergence of Japan as a fully-fledged urban , industrial society . |
| 5 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 6 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 7 | In Brazil there are all sorts of commodities whose price has gone down over the last ten years . |
| 8 | It is surprising how much this has widened out in the last twelve months , to be honest . |
| 9 | This is our first effort at a full newsletter and we now really appreciate how much effort Lynn has put in over the last few years . |
| 10 | WHAT do you do when the date and time of your official opening has been set , the invitations sent out and your guest of honour has to drop out at the last minute due to matters of national importance ? |
| 11 | Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment . |
| 12 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 13 | but I said well at least you 've got it all done , you do n't have to rush around at the last minute . |
| 14 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
| 15 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 16 | What was erm how , how badly was the south by affected by the Japanese , I mean what were the peasants likely to have gone through in the last few years ? |
| 17 | What has been er what has been pleasing is that a n a number of the people who 've come in on the last two or three years or so er are younger people , people in their er late teens or twenties . |
| 18 | Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days . |
| 19 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 20 | The civil population had been summarily evacuated ; a few enterprising and courageous camp-followers , evading the grasp of the gendarmes , had clung on to the last , but eventually all that remained were three elderly townsmen permitted to run a canteen for the troops . |
| 21 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
| 22 | In that log book , which he showed me later , was the name , port and country of origin , of every ship that had passed through during the last eight and a half years , together with her age and condition , her destination , and of course the name of the captain and details of the cargo . |
| 23 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 24 | He became aware of the disapproving looks his noisy party were receiving from some of the older locals who had drifted in over the last hour . |
| 25 | But with the base set to close , the planes have flown out for the last time . |
| 26 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 27 | It is a wonderful feeling to be able to experience the strength , suppleness and stamina that you have built up over the last three weeks . |
| 28 | And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years . |
| 29 | In 1967 the government accepted many of the economic principles we have set out in the last two chapters . |
| 30 | Teeside Park , founded by the government-funded Teeside Development Corporation and borough council-funded Preston Farm and the Bowesfield industrial estates have sprung up since the last election . |