Example sentences of "year [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juventus were without leading striker Roberto Baggio , recovering from a cracked rib , and England midfielder David Platt , out until the New Year after last week 's knee operation . |
| 2 | Oh , certainly , yes , I mean I keep a record here — I 'm turning over my figures which shows my weekly intakes of U K holidays this year against last year . |
| 3 | … traditional budgeting also has the defects of its virtues … comparing this year with last year may not mean much if the past was a mistake and the future is likely to be a bigger one . |
| 4 | Ca n't say I feel any different this year from last . |
| 5 | It will , though , be tempered by the healing gap of time , so that it has become ‘ This time the year before last … ’ not ‘ This time last year … ’ . |
| 6 | He talks ruefully of having ‘ missed ’ 11 marathons the year before last . |
| 7 | I conceive many People would be happy with an Art of this kind or at least it would be useful to those who die abroad and are brought back home : I often used to talk of embalming but never seriously took it in hand ‘ til the year before last , which to this time is well preserved . |
| 8 | The year before last all the surplus lunches were pillaged of the Kit-Kats and last year 18 surplus lunches just vanished . |
| 9 | The year before last — no , ‘ ninety-five , there was quite an imbroglio with a Count Andriyadi . |
| 10 | Year before last |
| 11 | do that the year before last ? |
| 12 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 13 | Cos we went to Winterlarken the year before last , was it the year before last ? |
| 14 | Cos we went to Winterlarken the year before last , was it the year before last ? |
| 15 | The rate of coronary artery bypass grafting for 1991–2 in Olsburgh 's district was almost exactly the target figure of 300 per million , and I assume that his health authority has based its purchasing decisions for this year on last year 's achievement . |
| 16 | Overall corporate profits are estimated to have fallen 15 per cent in the year to last month , with a further 7 per cent slide on the cards for 1992–93 . |
| 17 | It is pretty clear that while big business is being done in local area network hubs and routers , the market is very overcrowded , and in those circumstances , the outcome is usually that the rich get richer and the poor get taken over or go bust : observers reckon that in that context , the richest of the rich is Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , which did $340m in the year to last July and is estimated to have at least 45% of the market and maybe as much as 50% ; Wellfleet Communications Inc is thought to be number two , with anything from 12% to 20% , with 3Com Corp third at around 10% , but in the hub sector alone , SynOptics Communications Inc is thought to have about 33% and Cabletron Systems Inc 15% , although the latter says the two are neck and neck . |
| 18 | In the year to last September Euro Disney lost FFr188m . |