Example sentences of "[adv] of last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Spinks did well to win the place from the young Australian this season with Bosnich having been the man in possession of the goalkeeper 's gloves most of last season . |
| 2 | Erm right now , er if you look at the minutes then of last meeting erm , can anyone see any thing they want to correct there at all ? |
| 3 | At least Jeffrey Archer has sent out charity cards instead of last year 's queasy portrait of his fragrant wife Mary dressed as a choirboy . |
| 4 | The Bill will be deposited next November instead of last November . |
| 5 | Instead of last week . |
| 6 | So he said alright so he come in and had his dinner so he said I said we ought to be going this week for a ride out instead of last week . |
| 7 | Vic frowns in the mirror above the handbasin , thinking again of last month 's accounts , the quarterly forecast , the annual review … |
| 8 | After a flat opening beers perked up when it became known that August beer production was up 8 per cent and the year 's output had edged 0.6 per cent ahead of last year 's corresponding performance . |
| 9 | But things have now improved and sales in comparable shops are currently ahead of last year , if only by a neck . |
| 10 | Turnover on a like-for-like basis is currently ahead of last year . |
| 11 | As the race wore on , West stretched his advantage to win in 1 hr 49 mins 43 secs , two minutes ahead of last year 's champion , Michael Bumpstead . |
| 12 | A Zenith spokesman said that , in Europe , the company is ‘ signficantly ’ ahead of last year 's numbers , in units and value , for first two months of 1993 . |
| 13 | Profits in the UK are also ahead of last year 's , Graham says , although again no figures were available . |
| 14 | ‘ The economy probably is better than it was a year ago , the computer retail business is strong and the general consumer electronics business at the present time seems to be running ahead of last year , ’ Roach said . |
| 15 | Our sales will actually be slightly ahead of last year , which in itself was a record year , and the termination rate will be no higher than last year . |
| 16 | In advertisement , er in the advertisement volume area , again we 've increased our market share amongst the qu er , quality dailies a marginal increase er but it 's nationally we 've done very well and for instance in Europe we 're sixteen percent head , ahead of last year in volume and revenue terms . |
| 17 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 18 | Fine China we had a very poor first four months but then in May world sales were nine point nine percent ahead of last year and in the U S A over the last ten weeks we 've actually been ahead of nineteen ninety . |
| 19 | Carpet sales are running ahead of last year . |
| 20 | Turning to er , Camco , our old services campaign , again that er , I think that was a very , very good performance er , sales were ahead of last year , trading profit ahead of last year and they even proved , improved the margin very , very slightly and that 's our second star of the year . |
| 21 | Turning to er , Camco , our old services campaign , again that er , I think that was a very , very good performance er , sales were ahead of last year , trading profit ahead of last year and they even proved , improved the margin very , very slightly and that 's our second star of the year . |
| 22 | B Sky B is ahead of last year but I mean that 's a growing business , you would expect it to be . |
| 23 | So , I would expect that to continue and expect erm , revenue to get ahead of last year . |
| 24 | ‘ Orders processed for next Christmas are comfortably ahead of last year with both agent numbers and customer spend showing healthy increases . ’ |
| 25 | Alan Cherry , chairman , said at the annual meeting that inquiries and reservations were , respectively , 70 per cent and 40 per cent ahead of last year 's for his company . |
| 26 | With the average price likely to reach £80,000 , turnover should be well ahead of last year 's £127 million — down from £136 million in 1991 — of which £102 million came from houses . |