Example sentences of "end [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was some trouble at the end of last year about a little gipsy child who died from a burst appendix . |
| 2 | At the end of last year , again largely for political reasons , the Pakistan government granted licences to importers to bring in tea . |
| 3 | But the pair , openly hostile by the end of last year , will patch up their mutual differences . |
| 4 | Mr Rawlins announced his intention to leave Sturge at some time in the future towards the end of last year although he had no specific plans for the next step in his career . |
| 5 | According to the justice ministry , staff at 70 of the country 's 180 prisons are on strike , compared with 22 at the end of last week . |
| 6 | The improvement could allow some repayment of its long-term debt which has grown from £12.7m in 1986 to almost $69m at the end of last year . |
| 7 | George Shipley , the former Charlton midfield player who was released by Gillingham at the end of last season , has officially retired at the age of 30 on medical advice , after a series of knee operations . |
| 8 | Thankfully the brawl between Arsenal and Norwich City players at the end of last Saturday 's match at Highbury was a rarity ; hence all the fuss . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw my bank manager at the end of last year and she asked me why I was spending so much on food . |
| 10 | Losses from the American business were £670,000 in the 17 months to the end of last February . |
| 11 | At the end of last year Hong Kong 's fledgling Securities and Futures Commission started looking into share purchases by Connaught Investors , part of the Jardine empire . |
| 12 | Unhappy , Mr Afman resigned from the bank in July 1988 , though he was retained as a consultant until the end of last year . |
| 13 | Small wonder that Heinz Dürr , AEG 's long-serving chief executive , left at the end of last year to take on the unglamorous job of running Germany 's state-owned railway company . |
| 14 | At the end of last year they had $13 billion and $9 billion of net assets respectively , according to Lipper Analytical Services . |
| 15 | But for every house sold from the agency 's inventory — 2,728 by the end of last year — two more were not . |
| 16 | After the huge rise in German slaughterings and consequent drop in price at the end of last year following reunification , east Germany cut its pig herd by almost half in six months . |
| 17 | I even tried to read to you that night at the end of last September . |
| 18 | Mirror appointed a second merchant bank adviser , Schroder Wagg , at the end of last year to work alongside its existing adviser , Samuel Montagu , which handled its flotation last May . |
| 19 | Mirror appointed a second merchant bank adviser , Schroder Wagg , at the end of last year to work alongside its existing adviser , Samuel Montagu , which handled its flotation last May . |
| 20 | Robert Saxton 's has just been recorded , William Mathias 's was given its premiere in Manchester in January , and those by Dominic Muldowney and Robin Holloway in Liverpool and Manchester respectively at the end of last month . |
| 21 | IN JANUARY , some in the City forecast that by the end of last month there would be failures among large , quoted property companies . |
| 22 | Iraq may also want to warn Iran against supporting Shi'ite rebels in southern Iraq and the Kurds in the north , who both revolted against Baghdad 's rule at the end of last year 's Gulf war and were bloodily suppressed . |
| 23 | The Central Statistical Office reported that its longer leading index of economic activity continued to suggest hat the economy turned last summer while its shorter index points to recovery at the end of last year . |
| 24 | They totalled almost £5.7m ( £3m in 1990 ) , including £1.46m from the pre-merger schemes , at the end of last year because the share price soared from 633 to 896p last year . |
| 25 | The Games , already destined to be the largest ever , now have to find room for the extra 3,306 competitors and officials registered by the end of last month , bringing the total to 18,306 . |
| 26 | Tritsis was less than halfway through his mandate when he was felled by a stroke at the end of last month . |
| 27 | By the end of last week , Conservative strategists were talking about broadening Tory support still further from the 42 per cent achieved on Thursday . |
| 28 | The Santus Troupe partnership of Julian Santus and his sons Ernest and Roger was compulsorily liquidated by the VAT man at the end of last year and bankruptcy orders have now been made on all three . |
| 29 | Shares had already fallen at the end of last year after Fisons estimated that the withdrawal of Opticrom and Imferon from the US markets had cost the company about £65m . |
| 30 | Upjohn was dealt another blow when sales of the high ( 0.25 mg ) dose form of Halcion were suspended in France at the end of last year , although the low dose ( 0.125 mg ) form is still available . |