Example sentences of "up [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Sunday 's win should erase those ghosts , as well as make up for last year 's defeat to France in the final in Lyon . |
| 2 | The way he was fired up for last season 's FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth , despite knowing he was to have major heart surgery the next day showed his commitment . |
| 3 | Former Lord Mayor Tommy Patton slammed Sinn Fein councillors for having the ‘ audacity ’ to turn up for last night 's council meeting two days after the atrocity . |
| 4 | Roast ( 100°C/200°F , gas mark 1 ) for one hour , turning breast up for last fifteen minutes . |
| 5 | Making up for last , I reckon . |
| 6 | This win made up for last year 's defeat by Rob Orme when things just did n't go right for Dunlop . |
| 7 | American children whose mothers were called up during last year 's Gulf War felt they had been abandoned , an in-depth study of their feelings showed . |
| 8 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 9 | In return the Americans this month unblocked $5m in military aid that had been held up after last year 's arrests . |
| 10 | After the hearing in the court Alison Draper , who lives near the station , said : ‘ Nearly all the people here are against the festival because of the trouble we had to put up with last year . |
| 11 | Stewart and Sedgley are both suffering from ‘ dead legs ’ and has a knee ligament injury picked up in last week 's Rumbelows League Cup win at Grimsby . |
| 12 | But you had a bit of flare up A You flared up in last time you had came off it , did n't you ? |
| 13 | With about half a mile to go Elliott decided that it was time to make a move , and in a matter of a few strides Phar Lap had stormed up from last to first . |
| 14 | This year , these stations should get a total ad revenue of IR£10m , well up from last year 's £IR£6.7m . |
| 15 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's gone up since last time , ’ I replied . |
| 17 | The forward order book has moved up since last month , but lags its long-term average ( 3.0 months ' work ) . |
| 18 | While many brewers are bemoaning over-capacity and falling sales , Wood 's are trading 33 per cent up on last year 's summer figures on their Parish , Special and Wonderful brews . |
| 19 | The Wings Appeal total divided by the number of members gives an average of £21.56 per member , well up on last year . |
| 20 | ‘ Fifty up on last year ? |
| 21 | The final dividend should be 10 per cent up on last year 's payment . |
| 22 | ‘ Trade has been keeping up well , ’ said GUS 's deputy chairman Richard Pugh , with the average spend of its eight million UK customers up on last year . |
| 23 | ‘ Holidays are now becoming essential purchases and in 1992 summer bookings were 12 per cent up on last year . |
| 24 | ‘ Sales are up on last year . |
| 25 | In the seven days before Christmas , customers collected £271 million from hole-in-the-wall machines , 11 per cent up on last year . |
| 26 | Attendance figures reached 6,700 , some 10% up on last year . |
| 27 | Not even a relentless IRA bombing campaign in the major English cities could dampen spirits , and most booksellers reported that December sales were significantly up on last year . |
| 28 | A number of them were about 10% up on last year , and several were as much as 20% up . |
| 29 | Although they showed a monetary loss , the number of members recruited was up on last year . |
| 30 | ‘ Overall our four shops were about 17% up on last year ’ , though even with this boost , trading in the calendar year will be down on ‘ 91 . |