Example sentences of "was last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , you would n't mind but it was last minute that he rung up ! |
| 2 | Yes , I think it 's most probably one of the most important goals I 've ever scored in my life , especially when it was last minute , now because we soaked a lot of pressure up and as I say , it 's the best time to score . |
| 3 | The C format was last October . |
| 4 | The World Bank was last year reported to be in the throes of an anguished debate between its environmental unit and its energy department over the best way of enlisting Third World support for curbing greenhouse gases . |
| 5 | At the other extreme , Japan is predicted to be the OECD 's fastest grower in 1991 ( 3.7% ) , followed closely by Turkey ( 3.5% ) , which was last year 's top performer . |
| 6 | Both coaching teams have something to prove , Cambridge being led by John Wilson , who was last year 's Oxford chief coach . |
| 7 | Bit naw , naw that was last year , |
| 8 | If anything in the Amis corpus has validated his penchant for the poison dart , it was last year 's Memoirs : indiscreet , at times indefensible , but nevertheless a book to leave you giddy with laughter . |
| 9 | It is also the same week that the Bank of England ( whose governor was last year awarded a £22,000 pay increase ) admitted that it had been over-optimistic when three months ago it predicted the recession was ending . |
| 10 | However , the fabulous goal-kicker is now much more mobile than he was last year when a niggling groin injury affected him . |
| 11 | A new M65 World and British best by ‘ rocket ’ Ron Lucas at the Michelin 10 was last year 's memorable performance . |
| 12 | The Trotters ' Christmas Day special was last year 's top programme pulling in 17.7 million viewers . |
| 13 | And manager Jim Smith said : ‘ Guy is a much better player than he was last year . |
| 14 | That was last year 's thing . |
| 15 | ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain . |
| 16 | She paused before answering him , her eyes blinking as if she were thinking ; and then she said , ‘ It was last year … or sometime longer , when … when we lived in Durham . ’ |
| 17 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |
| 18 | The Unix festival , Uniforum ‘ 93 , did n't feel like it was as successful a show as it was last year . |
| 19 | But that was last year . |
| 20 | Do you remember this talk we had that was last year . |
| 21 | That was last year or was that two years ago ? |
| 22 | It was a wee , it 's it was last year when you saw him I think , Dr |
| 23 | Erm and that is not half as what it was last year . |
| 24 | ‘ That was last year . |
| 25 | That 's no good , because then the true worth of the child is not coming out , and at that age I mean , what had started it was last year I I did n't want him to do it . |
| 26 | Ca n't tell you how cut up I was last year to hear those Irish madmen had killed her . |
| 27 | How can the Minister assess how much money will be needed when there has been a shortfall , as there was last year ? |
| 28 | It was last year in Denmark that she reached her lowest ebb . |
| 29 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 30 | The Brazilian government 's environmental protection agency ( Ibama ) claims that forest destruction is half what it was last year . |