Sentence examples for last from inspiring English sources
The word 'last' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to indicate the final item in a series, to describe something that happened at the end of a period of time, or to refer to something that happened the previous time an event occurred. Example sentence: The company reported their last quarter earnings figures this morning.
The last one was in 1989.
His record - two cups within six months of his appointment, a domestic treble in his first full season, a second title in 2005 and reaching the last 16 of the Champions League - set the context for a rueful but masterfully understated parting comment: "I'm sure those people who look at the facts will say that during a period of downsizing, I was reasonably successful".
The order book was down slightly at £3.6bn from the last update in June but well ahead of the £3.3bn reported this time last year.
It didn't last.
Last year, during David Cameron's trip to Beijing, the same paper announced that Britain was "just an old European country apt [that is, suitable] for travel and study".
Referred to in court as D, she entered a not guilty plea to a charge of intimidation last week while wearing a niqab after the judge backed down from a previous decision that she would have to show her face to be properly identified.
As a result, the country lost a further 21 positions in the policy evaluation compared to last year, thus replacing Canada as the worst-performing industrial country".
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