Sentence examples for last went through from inspiring English sources

Washington has been reluctant to touch Social Security, which last went through major changes in 1983, after a bipartisan commission tried to assure its long-term solvency through a mix of benefit reductions cuts and tax increases.

Against the Economic Grain The turmoil of recent months, however, seems inconsistent with what life should resemble in the world's richest nation a decade after it last went through a recession or had a serious strategic rival on the world stage.

Wales have the opportunity to win their third grand slam in eight seasons, equalling the feat of the 1970s, and it was in that decade that the men in red last went through a championship campaign with the same back division, 1977.

NYPD Lieutenant Thomas R. Gilligan, who was off duty at the time, soon got involved, and though the sequence of events is murky, he ended up firing three shots: One was a warning, the next hit a major artery in Powell's arm, the last went through his chest, puncturing his lungs and killing him.

The replacement of the level crossing was the first job in a major modernisation of this line and to fit all this in the work commenced as soon as the last train went through on Friday evening".

By the 1970s rail was becoming of such secondary importance to roads that the last train went through in 1981.

It lasted and went through three waves for a few decades.

The vehicles lined up in an open field to prepare and soldiers went through last-minute equipment checks to make sure radios, weapons and other gear were working.

As he went through last-minute checks inside the capsule, it was found that a heater for his visor was not working.

Some, termed "cycles," are short-lived (e.g., the disaster cycle of the 1970s, which included Earthquake [1974] and The Towering Inferno [1974]), but even lasting genres go through phases of popularity.

So we didn't exempt science last year science went through the same process everyone else did last year and came out with a budget that was flat with 2010.