Example sentences of "at the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew 's background has made him a focal point for media interest this week , including an appearance on regional television filmed back at the last working tin mine , at South Crofty , near Redruth . |
| 2 | It has erm at the last European Election it had five hundred and twenty two thousand voters , so picking the candidate is really the first stage on s trying to get amongst five hundred and twenty two thousand voters . |
| 3 | Such a conference would be in addition to another on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) already convened for December 1990 , as agreed at the last European Council summit in Strasbourg in December 1989 [ see pp. 37131-33 ] . |
| 4 | In nineteen eighty nine , at the last European elections , Labour took forty five seats to the Conservatives thirty two and we are looking forward to the elections in June when the party opposite , ridden by divisions and disagreements , will suffer further loses and Labour , we hope , will make further gains . |
| 5 | Erm members will re ma , will be reminded the report was requested at the last personal services committee with regards to the council 's involvement in the current museums and Essex committee er , I 'm also requesting er , the financial contribution that this council actually makes to that committee . |
| 6 | Here again , all manner of tradesmen joined the boats and it was recorded that at the last major haul of pilchard seiners from Looe , in 1866 , the master seiner was a tailor ! |
| 7 | Think how many management consultants ( agents of organisational change ) there are — 1,763 firms at the last official count — and while you could say the internal cost in terms of management person hours and midnight oil bills dwarves the external consultant fee that goes with it , it does n't leave an awful lot for the average consultancy of Runnit Downe Foryewe & Howe , even if every firm blew an assignment each . |
| 8 | Following amendments to update our Constitution approved at the last Annual General Meeting held on 27th April 1985 , three members of the Executive Committee will retire annually , which of course means that it will be necessary in future to hold elections each year to fill these vacant places . |
| 9 | If no start name is specified , the listing will start with the first alphanumerical module in LIFESPAN ; if no end module name is specified , the listing will end at the last alphanumerical module in LIFESPAN . |
| 10 | In fact , Hainer Bastian see this exhibition as completing the vision of Picasso presented at the last great retrospective in New York twelve years ago , when the focus was on his Cubist , surrealist and classical phases . |
| 11 | In regional elections on March 22 the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) of President François Mitterrand polled only 18.3 per cent of the vote in metropolitan France , compared with 29.88 per cent at the last regional elections in 1986 . |
| 12 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 13 | At the last possible moment , she glimpses a slip-road to her left and swerves down it . |
| 14 | Suppose that a device can be introduced to select the direction of polarisation detection at the last possible moment just before the photon arrives . |
| 15 | It is best made at the last possible moment , although it can be kept warm for a short time in a bowl set over a pan of hot water . |
| 16 | She saw the German at the last possible moment . |
| 17 | The examination he looks upon as completely separate ; he will attend to it at the last possible moment . |
| 18 | He lifted the vriki off the gas-ring at the last possible moment . |
| 19 | Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them . |
| 20 | And fortunately I suddenly had inspiration , just at the last possible moment . |
| 21 | In 1979 he won Birkenhead , succeeding Mr Edmund Dell , and at the last general election his majority was 15,372 . |
| 22 | At the last general election , the section on Northern Ireland in the Tory manifesto would have appeared under the heading ‘ foreign affairs ’ if someone had n't noticed it in proof at the last moment . |
| 23 | Variations across London often reflected the differential performance of the parties there at the last general election , and may well portend trends for the next . |
| 24 | As for national health service resources , the hon. Gentleman will know of the very large real-terms increases that have been made — in excess , in fact , of the real-terms increases promised by the Opposition at the last general election . |
| 25 | Ms Hoey , who strengthened her majority at the last general election in Vauxhall , which she first won at a by-election , has also caused a stir over Northern Ireland policy . |
| 26 | At the last general election in January 1987 the coalition comprising the Christian Democratic Union ( Christlich-Demokratische Union — CDU ) , the Christian Social Union ( Christlich-Soziale Union — CSU ) and the Free Democratic Party ( Freie Demokratische Partei — FDP ) , which had been in power since October 1982 , was returned to power with a reduced majority [ see pp. 35014-15 ] . |
| 27 | At the last general election in August 1987 the PLM was re-elected to office with four seats , the NDP won two and the PDP one [ see p. 35373 ] . |
| 28 | Of the 40 , nine were appointed to ensure equal representation of Moslems and Christians ; the remainder filled seats left vacant by the death of representatives elected at the last general election in 1972 . |
| 29 | Well I think that message is getting across to the P L P and we 've seen more women coming into the House of Commons , sitting on the Labour benches at the last general election , but there also is a sense that the progress , although it 's being made , needs to be speeded up , because when you have profound social changes outside the House of Commons , with a change in women 's role in society , a change in women 's role in the Labour force , and a change in women 's role in the family as well , you ca n't allow your parliament to lag behind . |
| 30 | ( The Green Party won its first seat in the lower house of parliament , the Dáil , at the last general election in June 1989 ) . |