Example sentences of "last [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vertical distance between SS ' ; and SS measures the amount of tax being paid on earnings from the last hour 's work . |
| 2 | The feeling was that Richards should have declared before he did as the last hour 's batting produced few runs , but when England set about playing out time , Larkins , having gone first ball in the first innings , lasted only one more this time . |
| 3 | Sealink and P&O , with an estimated 80% share of the short-route ferry market , are pinning their hopes for the future on large capacity super-ferries and changes in manning procedures introduced after the last seamen 's strike . |
| 4 | They 'll be searching for a wooden stick with a thistle painted on it , and discussing the minutes of the last Rotarians ' whist drive subcommittee meeting . |
| 5 | The nine-year-old , running for the first time since his victory in last March 's Sun Alliance Chase , finished a tired horse behind his impressive stable companion Run For Free . |
| 6 | Rush knows the dangers of taking things for granted , and last term 's experience makes him speak of hopes rather than expectations , refusing to make predictions . |
| 7 | cos erm I just need to do some work on that , I 've still got last term 's work and everything , I just |
| 8 | As a friend with three children at public school put it , ‘ My last term 's bills totalled more than the price of the wife 's new care ’ . |
| 9 | Erm , I do need to see you some time erm let me just just see erm , but I 've got your erm your last term 's report here that we need to meet to discuss . |
| 10 | The finale begins with a somewhat pedantic statement of the theme , but the passacaglia variations connect well with each other , and here at last Brahms 's strength of personality emerges . |
| 11 | On the last side 's Violet , a reworked blues with references to Messiaen in it , some of Miles Davis 's most exquisite slow playing is to be heard over slurred , sliding chords and the kind of empty space you hardly ever hear him loose in these days . |
| 12 | AFTER lunching with Tory candidate Simon Fowler attacking Frank Cook 's 881 Labour majority in Stockton North last Tuesday 's Diary suggested that the sandwiches at the Centenary in Norton might have seen better days . |
| 13 | LAST Tuesday 's column asked which two footballers went from the Mill Field to Field Mill Crook Town to Mansfield , in other words . |
| 14 | With a full house of 185 at last Tuesday 's event in Edinburgh University , part-funded by Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise , it is arguably the first held by the IoD , that predominantly male organisation , where the overwhelming majority was female . |
| 15 | I said after last Tuesday 's game that if we kept working our luck would turn . |
| 16 | The impression that several Northampton players were suffering from the effects of last Tuesday 's victory at Leicester was endorsed afterwards , and rarely could Olver , Bayfield and Shelford have had such ineffective games . |
| 17 | More than a thousand people held a peace rally in Belfast today in protest at last Tuesday 's murder of a Catholic father of five . |
| 18 | Computers have been working overtime at corporate headquarters since last Tuesday 's announcement in an attempt to assess the impact on individual project and company cash flow . |
| 19 | If by any chance you DID manage to miss out on last months ' issue , fear not ! |
| 20 | Last Saturday 's issue of The Lancet brought an angry reply from Clark ( who did his PhD under Allison in 1977 ) and W. |
| 21 | James Tarry , third in the Men 's Championship with 11 wins , will be at the Bicester , where True Bloom might win the Land Rover qualifier , even if last Saturday 's Uttoxeter winner , Radical Views , comes under orders . |
| 22 | A host of celebrities from music and showbusiness put their names to an advert in last Saturday 's Guardian , launching a campaign to publicise abuses of power on our doorstep . |
| 23 | Let me quote from last Saturday 's Oxford Mail : ’ A teenager whose night of joyriding ended in the death of a lorry driver , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for two years . |
| 24 | Buckley was admitted to the hospital with a badly fractured skull following an accidental clash of heads with an opponent , Gary Poole , in last Saturday 's home game with Plymouth Argyle . |
| 25 | Murphy , who landed last Saturday 's H & T Walker Gold Cup on Deep Sensation , became the latest recruit for the Grand National winner when Graham McCourt turned down the ride . |
| 26 | Mr Janman has asked us to make it clear that , as he wrote in last Saturday 's Sun , he recognises that both crown servants and substantial investors in Britain have an existing right to come here and that though at present he advocates the strict exclusion of all others , he would cease to do so if the Chinese were to attempt ‘ a Tiananmen-style crackdown ’ in Hong Kong in 1997 . |
| 27 | Last Saturday 's exhibition against Hull City , a side with a pitiful away record , was inept and occasionally heartless . |
| 28 | It is not known how many of the people arrested in last Saturday 's protests on the night of East Germany 's 40th anniversary have been freed . |
| 29 | Ok , here 's what the News Of The World ( cough , choke , vomit ! ! ) had to say about last Saturday 's game . |
| 30 | Hateley was one of several players banned from Ibrox until yesterday in the wake of last Saturday 's defeat from Celtic that brought to an end Rangers ' run of 44 games without loss . |