Example sentences of "last [prep] a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However their peace is short-lived when they meet the charming Nick Buckley , the last of a long line of Buckleys inhabiting ‘ End House ’ , which is poised in isolation on a rocky point visible from the hotel . |
| 2 | The retirement of Sergeant Merrey marked the end of another era — not only the departure of a friend and character , but the last of a long line of School Sergeants going back to the appointment of Sgt. Sash in 1888 . |
| 3 | Although , as Marc Raeff has pointed out , it was their methods rather than their aims which were at fault , it was nevertheless the inefficient , inhumane and corrupt administration of Siberia under Pestel and Treskin , last of a long line of government-appointed regional tyrants , that was to be tackled with such determination by Alexander 's brilliant bureaucrat and disgraced official , Mikhail Speranskii ( 1722–1839 ) . |
| 4 | Islam teaches its adherents that the prophet Mohammed was the last of a long line of prophets who proclaimed the one true God . |
| 5 | Her identity is widely known in the village , but her wishes are respected and her name will not be revealed here She is the last of a long line of illustrious cheesemakers and her regular clients can only hope that she will pass on her expertise to the next generation . |
| 6 | At that point , rather late one night , he and I had the last of a long sequence of talks . |
| 7 | Somewhat surprisingly , given the avowed centrality of curriculum development in the project , " linking the centre closely to the curriculum of the school " appears only as the last in a long list of implementation steps . |
| 8 | The final touch to the forward line came with seventeen-year-old Cliff Bastin , costing £2,000 from Exeter City , who was to be the last in a long line of Chapman discoveries that began with Fanny Walden twenty years before . |
| 9 | The Dzhungar state , the last in a long line of typical steppe nomad conglomerates descended from Genghis Khan 's empire , also claimed the more southerly zone where lay the headwaters of the Ob-Irtysh river system . |
| 10 | However diverse the animals and plants of the modern world , they were but the last in a long sequence of populations that have replaced one another throughout the earth 's history . |