For fans, it will be the last chance to see both leagues in their current configurations.

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One visitor said he had come because he was afraid it would be his last chance to see the art.

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This year is the last chance to see the contemporary Blue Lotus Gallery in this unique setting, as the gallery is set to relocate from Fo Tan at the end of January.

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Long-time observers see the Bonn meeting as a last chance to create a central authority that gives the country coherence without repression and modernises without trampling traditional ways of life.

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And Michelle had a chance to see that firsthand at the Homestead race last year.

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The three presidential debates are the last big set piece events of the two-year campaign and the only chance for voters to see the two candidates side-by-side.

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And honestly, as much as we lust after that supposedly leaked N9 MeeGo slider, we'd rather see Nokia slip the introduction than blow what could be its last, best chance to crack the US smartphone market.

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So the plea by Michael Aris, the husband of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, to let him enter the country and see his wife - perhaps for the last time - has little chance of being granted.

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