Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] last year " in BNC.
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| 1 | AdStar , which employs just under 16,000 people , failed to perform last year , with turnover down 12% at $6,110m , and a net loss of $265m after restructuring charges . |
| 2 | Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance . |
| 3 | Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner . |
| 4 | It was the same old production of Gypsy Baron they 'd done last year , but there were two huge question marks over this year 's production : two new debuts , Ingrid and Therese . |
| 5 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 6 | The company , which returned to profit last year following a rigorous re-structuring programme ( CI No 2,010 ) , saw a sharp improvement in its continental European operations where revenues grew 17% , taking into account the fall in sterling . |
| 7 | The G7 nations began pressing last year for international laws aimed at protecting the world 's forests , but North and South have remained divided over should foot the bill . |
| 8 | Peter de Savary 's crew discovered climbing last year , although it appears he off-loaded the place on another property speculator in the summer without bothering to tell anyone ! |
| 9 | The first difficulties began to appear last year after the Mazowiecki government , without consulting the public or the parliament , decreed that children should be taught religion in schools , in effect making Catholicism close to a state religion . |
| 10 | Digital cameras and digital video cameras began to appear last year . |
| 11 | Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd began to operate last year when 160 miners each invested £10,000 to reopen the pit . |
| 12 | Homebase avoided joining last year 's discount war initiated by Texas and B & Q. Instead we responded with a strong special offer programme supported by more regular national newspaper advertising and more aggressive point of sale material . |
| 13 | My position on the whole thing started to wobble last year when I had some reflexology ( a foot massage ) which made me more relaxed than I 've felt for years . |
| 14 | Erm , this is something that I started to use last year . |
| 15 | Chris Wilkinson 's remarkable progress was curtailed in the quarter-finals by Chris Bailey who proceeded to displace last year 's circuit winner , the American Brian Joelson , in the semi-finals and ease himself into a confrontation with Bates the next day . |
| 16 | Put more starkly , with the current caseload and an intake of 50,000 new applications this year , even if we managed to exceed last year 's output we would still have at least two years work in hand . ’ |
| 17 | A further £1.1m from the sale , together with the cash generated from group operations , combined to turn last year 's debt of £4.8m into cash of £1.2m this year . |
| 18 | She would be employed specifically to enter journal subscription data into our computer system — the job which Paul Ainsworth failed to complete last year due to absences . |
| 19 | Mind you , I did think last year the grant was down too low , at eight hundred thousand , but that was the amount they put in , it was two point eight , I think , to start with , and two million pounds offered in the end . |
| 20 | One question policyholders should ask is — if the company did underperform last year , has this limited its options ? |
| 21 | What name have you given to the Water Hen which migrates to us yearly — or which did migrate last year and the year before . |
| 22 | It did have last year . |
| 23 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 24 | Germany 's trade surplus with the rest of the European Community did shrink last year , to DM65 billion ( $40 billion ) from DM94 billion in 1989 . |
| 25 | It was a good walk into the girls ’ orphanage at Codlea and see about 30 of them happily at their machines under instruction from a tutor I had taught last year . |
| 26 | But the clinching reasons were national : alarm at the soaring cost of German unity and fury at the government 's recent decision to raise taxes , after it had said last year that it would not . |
| 27 | ‘ What are you , you must be about twenty-eight now , ’ Jonquil had said last year , not bothering with an answer . |
| 28 | He had retired last year and was now only doing concert work . |
| 29 | Sometimes Ruth wished she had told Steve what had happened last year , the affair she had allowed to happen among the glitz and excitement of the Seville Expo , the fascinating Majorcan she had met and loved on sight . |
| 30 | Fines of at least £50,000 were being widely predicted yesterday and there was speculation that Wimbledon 's punishment might even top the £75,000 Chelsea had to pay last year after crowd trouble at Stamford Bridge . |