Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | TWELVE cargo ships sank last year in mysterious circumstances . |
| 7 | In the 1970s it turned over more than £50 million , but it sank last year after an unsuccessful relaunch . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The organisers say that this is a responsibly run event and add that any problems which dogged last years festival have been overcome . |
| 10 | Current broadcasting rules would ban the choice prize a takeover of Granada , the suitor Tyne Tees spurned last year . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Six hundred and thirty balloons were released at the ceremony — one for every ten people the fund helped last year . |
| 16 | Six hundred and thirty balloons were released at the ceremony — one for every ten people the fund helped last year . |
| 17 | The animal was first identified from a skull found last year by a joint expedition of the Vietnamese government and the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) in the Vu Quang reserve on the border with Laos . |
| 18 | AS oil companies continued assessing the impact of Budget tax changes on North Sea operations , British Petroleum indicated that the measures might help to hasten development of the huge oilfield found last year in waters west of Shetland . |
| 19 | Then there was the Indian woman reported last year in the New England Journal of Medicine ( vol 306 , p 1056 ) who had a craving for paper . |
| 20 | Vienna , Virginia-based Legent Corp warns that it expects to report net profit of about $18.4m or $0.52 per share for the second quarter ended Aprch 31 , compared with the $0.44 before charges that it reported last year ; turnover will be about flat with the $102.5m a year ago : the news caused a bloodbath in the Legent share price , which slumped 16% , $6.125 , to land up at $33.25 . |
| 21 | Their findings , reported last year in the British Medical Journal , highlighted poor sanitary conditions in some inner London schools . |
| 22 | When local environmental officers in Birmingham , UK , reported last year that surprising amounts of chemicals were migrating into food from some types of clingfilm , they were attacked by the packaging industry . |
| 23 | An EPA contractor reported last year that the resulting blocks of concrete no longer contained PCBs , leading to speculation that the lime was reacting to neutralize the toxin . |
| 24 | Wake , junior ABA champion and defending his schools title against the boy he beat last year , Roger Campbell , of Hampshire , found it hard going against a shorter but stockier opponent and had to survive being hurt in a tough second round before being given a majority decision . |
| 25 | More than 800 islanders died when the volcano erupted last year and 31 have been killed by mudflows since mid-August |
| 26 | Patten promised last year a paper that would set out Britain 's agenda for the environment to the end of the century . |
| 27 | IN THESE violent times when all young children are at risk — more so now that the nights are dark when they are coming home from school — the Government promised last year that this year they would leave the clocks alone . |
| 28 | But as White , a frustrated three-times finalist , is well aware , that longing is not enough without self-discipline — a quality he amply demonstrated last year in his most concerted attempt yet to land the elusive prize . |
| 29 | The couple divorced last year . |
| 30 | The Princess Royal already has two children , Peter , 15 , and Zara , 12 , from her marriage to Captain Mark Phillips , whom she divorced last year . |