Example sentences of "[verb] last year " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , although France 's trade deficit with Germany narrowed last year , its trade balance with America moved from surplus into deficit . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't win anything when I entered last year , so I adapted the recipe then heard I was in the North of England finals . |
| 3 | Already , Cohen has isolated more than a thousand contigs , each containing an average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes ( YACs ) and covering more than 70 per cent of the genome , while the number of markers on the map that Weissenbach and his colleagues reported last year has since been more than doubled and is set shortly to double again . |
| 4 | Waites envisages a new , government-funded , independent organisation which would be responsible for raising standards of food hygiene by publicity and by the training of food-handlers. 60,000 cases of food poisoning were reported last year , representing a threefold rise since 1980 . |
| 5 | Only 18 cases were reported last year , yet the disease is caused by a bacteria present on one in three people . |
| 6 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 7 | It is evident in the vitality of the arts — hardly a city in the country now lacks for an international festival — and it contributed last year to the remarkable election of Mary Robinson , only in her mid-40s and impatient with old ways , to the ( largely honorary ) post of president . |
| 8 | Nonetheless the 1991–92 figure clearly needed to be brought back to a more affordable level , and during the ‘ star chamber ’ exercise in the spring to which referred last year , the contract with Westminster Strategy ( our PR consultants ) was renegotiated , and the budgeted figure for the current year has been reduced to £170,000 . |
| 9 | His defection means a 10lb rise in the weights , enabling last year 's winner and ante-post favourite Another Coral to race off his correct mark . |
| 10 | Now expectations model implies that the revision in expectations , right , year on year alright , is proportional right , to the error last year , right , the difference between actual and forecasted last year right , if they were way out if their forecast was way out for last year , right , they 'll revise their expectations for , for the next year okay . |
| 11 | TWELVE cargo ships sank last year in mysterious circumstances . |
| 12 | In the 1970s it turned over more than £50 million , but it sank last year after an unsuccessful relaunch . |
| 13 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 14 | The M6 crosses on the Thornbridge Viaduct , a viaduct which has been extensively repaired last year using a very powerful water lance to cut out deteriorated concrete , a German tool being used in Britain for the first time . |
| 15 | Magistrates have refused to grant a music licence for the event , at Blackthorn farm near Coleford , after hearing objections from some local people who say last years festival was a nightmare . |
| 16 | I make no apology for reminding the House of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill upon which I drew last year : ’ It is said with truth that this involves some sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty . |
| 17 | The G7 nations began pressing last year for international laws aimed at protecting the world 's forests , but North and South have remained divided over should foot the bill . |
| 18 | And it 's not just important to DEC who freely admits its whole strategy is dependent on a unified Unix and desperately needs last year 's deal between OSF and USL on common Application Programming Interfaces to come to fruition . |
| 19 | The organisers say that this is a responsibly run event and add that any problems which dogged last years festival have been overcome . |
| 20 | Current broadcasting rules would ban the choice prize a takeover of Granada , the suitor Tyne Tees spurned last year . |
| 21 | For this reason additional funds were voted last year for the city . |
| 22 | President Richard von Weizsäcker , often able to set the tone , has been unusually reticent since the storm he created last year by urging that the government should move from Bonn to Berlin ( an issue that remains undecided ) . |
| 23 | Peter de Savary 's crew discovered climbing last year , although it appears he off-loaded the place on another property speculator in the summer without bothering to tell anyone ! |
| 24 | It beats last year 's record of 47 ( in Atlanta ) by 9 . |
| 25 | The four harbingers of East European apocalypse — the collapse of the Soviet Union as a trading partner , dear oil , government paralysis and civil disorder — visited last year and may have already done their worst . |
| 26 | A large number of firms the Joint Monitoring Unit visited last year are failing to meet one or more of its criteria for good audit procedures , according to the first annual review of audit regulation . |
| 27 | Compression Labs Inc , San Jose was picked last year to develop and make the encoding system for the direct broadcast satellite system . |
| 28 | The fact that Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger ( Bryan Ferry could n't come because he had a cold ) were at my d'Offay Gallery opening last year raised it into a social event , so much so that Robin Vousden said , ‘ We have n't had an opening like this since Andy Warhol ’ . |
| 29 | In spite of having more than twice the capacity of the old Grassmarket theatre it has been recording 85 per cent audience capacity since opening last year . |
| 30 | An example of radio-frequency interference or RFI — which is how the phenomenon is termed in industrial circles — occurred last year at the disabled nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania . |