Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the last year in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports also indicated continuing differences over interest rates [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38170 ; 38314 ] following a rise in inflation over the last year in six of the G-7 countries . |
| 2 | Gross investment in plant and machinery in the last year in which the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) had stewardship of these matters , at constant 1985 prices , was just over £17 billion . |
| 3 | Particularly encouraging to the E&P management has been a gain over the last year in net income to the equivalent of about $3.50 per barrel of oil produced , putting BP well ahead of the performance of most other oil majors judged by the same yardstick and only marginally behind Exxon , the largest US oil company . |
| 4 | Consequently , an active programme of asset disposals has been under way over the last year in order to reduce the group 's high level of debt , which was the result of decisions to develop new oil and gas fields over the last few years , as well as the additional debt burden inherited following the acquisition of Ultramar . |
| 5 | There has been a major increase over the last year in the number of disqualification proceedings taken out against directors , according to the Insolvency Service . |