Example sentences of "the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last three years , our volunteers have provided much love and care to many hurt and lonely people . |
| 2 | Referrals to ACET for Home Care in the London area have increased in the last six months by 50% . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The last 12 months have seen further dramatic growth for ACET at home and overseas . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In London , demand for our Home Care services doubled over the last twelve months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Over the last year we have moved therefore from care support to urgent training of Romanian people who can then become effective educators . |
| 11 | Despite these commitments , the last quarter was a difficult time with the recession and the changes in local government financing both having their effects . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Over the last year , 24,000 pupils attended ACET class presentations , as against 14,500 in 1989/90 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is literature within the last three centuries , then , that provides the main choices for a reader . |
| 20 | The last type of critic to be distinguished in the present chapter will be the theoretician . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | The last type of survey to be considered has a basis in theory . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Perhaps in the last decade of this century something of a change in attitude to sculpture is becoming evident . |
| 25 | In the last three decades there has been considerable success for auctioneering , both in terms of money and also in prestige . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Comparisons between cultures become possible in the last stage . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most usual description of aesthetic experience in the last hundred years has occurred when the critic has been faced with the need to react to one isolated work of art . |
| 29 | The literary naturalism of the last century went to the poor and itemised their way of life , producing for adversity truthful , distressing inventories and interiors — as in George Moore 's novel of the Nineties , Esther Waters , which starts with a manor-house , servants and horses , and travels to Soho for compulsive gambling and a fatal cough . |
| 30 | Hawksmoor , which came out in 1985 , was preceded by the Eliot biography of 1984 , which was preceded by The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde of the year before , and in 1987 these annual events were pressed upon by Chatterton . |