Example sentences of "the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 2 | Erm , so volume has been gradually growing as the year progresses and erm , and more so in the last erm , the last say six weeks of the er , of the half year . |
| 3 | Erm , so volume has been gradually growing as the year progresses and erm , and more so in the last erm , the last say six weeks of the er , of the half year . |
| 4 | Over the last three years , our volunteers have provided much love and care to many hurt and lonely people . |
| 5 | Referrals to ACET for Home Care in the London area have increased in the last six months by 50% . |
| 6 | The length of the covenant will have been specified in the Deed , and it will terminate when the last specified annual payment has been made . |
| 7 | We are the largest independent provider of practical home care to people with HIV/AIDS in the U.K. From 7 regional offices we have provided practical care to over 1000 people in the lat 3 years and in the last 12 months we cared for at least 1 in 5 of those who died of AIDS in the U.K. |
| 8 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 9 | The last 12 months have seen further dramatic growth for ACET at home and overseas . |
| 10 | Travelling to several countries over the last year , has brought it home to me how disastrous are the effects , worldwide , of the virus causing AIDS . |
| 11 | In London , demand for our Home Care services doubled over the last twelve months . |
| 12 | I am pleased to report further extensions of home care over the last year to meet the growing needs in Glasgow and also to cover a greater area of the South Coast and the East Midlands . |
| 13 | Over the last year we have moved therefore from care support to urgent training of Romanian people who can then become effective educators . |
| 14 | Despite these commitments , the last quarter was a difficult time with the recession and the changes in local government financing both having their effects . |
| 15 | Over the last year ACET 's centres in Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow have been asked to care for a growing number needing practical help to stay at home . |
| 16 | Over the last year , 24,000 pupils attended ACET class presentations , as against 14,500 in 1989/90 . |
| 17 | In Benenson 's words : ‘ The gradual change over the last 30 years in the public perception of the value of human life is a measure of Amnesty 's influence . |
| 18 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 19 | The ground has been thoroughly explored over the last 250 years , which is one estimate of the span of art critical and art historical activity . |
| 20 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 21 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 22 | It is literature within the last three centuries , then , that provides the main choices for a reader . |
| 23 | The last type of critic to be distinguished in the present chapter will be the theoretician . |
| 24 | This stance is partly a reaction against what Krauss saw as a dominant position in American criticism , by which ‘ the art of the last hundred and thirty years , the art of modernism , is not being well served by writing that promotes the myths through which it can be consistently misread ’ . |
| 25 | The last type of survey to be considered has a basis in theory . |
| 26 | But these fine ladies and their tea-drinkings , husband-huntings , etc. , etc. , etc. , will job me out of the last ten years , and I fear miss getting husbands too . |
| 27 | Perhaps in the last decade of this century something of a change in attitude to sculpture is becoming evident . |
| 28 | In the last three decades there has been considerable success for auctioneering , both in terms of money and also in prestige . |
| 29 | The explosive prices for Teddy Bears in the last few years indicate how a market can be created , in this case by a mix of merit and nostalgia . |
| 30 | Comparisons between cultures become possible in the last stage . |