Example sentences of "last time " in BNC.
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| 31 | The rate of failures has been declining through the 1980s and the last time it was running at these levels was 1984 , when 3,924 businesses failed . |
| 32 | TULLOW Oil , which joined the Unlisted Securities Market on Thursday , yesterday announced pre-tax profits of Ir £41,000 for the six months to 30 June , against £18,000 last time . |
| 33 | Earnings per share for the first half were reduced to 5.47p , against 7.83p last time , but the interim dividend has been held at 1.5p . |
| 34 | The last time base rates hit 15 per cent was in 1981 but , as Mr Tora points out , ‘ in real terms this is the highest the base rate has ever been . |
| 35 | The heaviest betting this year has been for Shellac , a six-length winner from Sudden Victory at Ayr last time out , but the deciding factor is that Dettori originally chose to ride SPLENDID CAREER ( nap 3.35 ) , who may have been unlucky when beaten at Newbury by yesterday 's Goodwood winner Monastery . |
| 36 | They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else . |
| 37 | London 's venerable red and cream double-deckers rumbled along the Thames embankment for the last time in 1952 . |
| 38 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 39 | They had fallen behind when Simon Tracey , not for the last time , missed a corner and right-back Colin Hill poked Shane Westley 's header into his own net . |
| 40 | ‘ The last time I played there , for Nantes , there was very little atmosphere , and on Wednesday the Scots fans will be right behind us . |
| 41 | Earnings per share were 7.31p , up from 6.11p , and the interim dividend was 1.6p against 1.33p last time . |
| 42 | The last time that automatic budget cuts , mandated by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-cutting law , took effect was in October 1987 . |
| 43 | For the last year of his life he suffered from myeloma , a form of bone cancer , and entered hospital for the last time in July where he made friends with another patient who , unfortunately , soon died . |
| 44 | The last time we met he was singing the number at a Friars ' Club gala in New York and , for all the lofty intellectual disdain one feels obliged to muster at tuxedo circuit events , it was undeniably impressive to see him afterwards , the only British subject in the room , surrounded by Lauren Bacall , Lena Horne and Gwen Verdon . |
| 45 | ‘ The last time I 'd seen Nelson was in the courtroom in 1964 , ’ Mrs Sisulu said . |
| 46 | The England manager is a slave to slip catching practice , difficult though it is to recall the last time one of his bowlers located an outside edge . |
| 47 | It is expected to produce about £9m which would compare with £16.5m last time . |
| 48 | Libra Bank , the London-based consortium bank which trades in third world debts , plunged to a pre-tax loss of £174.6m in the first half of 1989 from profits last time of £10.9m . |
| 49 | The Australians magnificently took revenge for their defeat last time when they had the bronze medal taken away from them , but England were happy to learn that they have a last-eight encounter today with Sweden . |
| 50 | New Zealand , silver medal-winners last time , may not find it easy against the improving Finland . |
| 51 | Neither jet-lag nor anything going wrong has been evident at the tourists ' training , which has been comfortably the most impressive seen in Cardiff since … well , since the last time the All Blacks were there in 1980 . |
| 52 | Last time I visited No. 3 Commando they were being heavily mortared . |
| 53 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 54 | Last time I played this Strathspey was at a ceilidh held in the village hall at Spean Bridge , attended by villagers and staff from the training centre at Achnacarry . |
| 55 | There was no looking back ; I wanted to remember Fiona as she was the last time we met , standing in the doorway of the croft , her black hair blowing in the breeze as she waved me goodbye . |
| 56 | Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within . |
| 57 | They wo n't want to be the one in their class , group or gang who missed buying a ticket having known the show was sold out last time . |
| 58 | The last time I saw Alfred was the day the police shoot them three fellas , remember ? |
| 59 | The last time I 'd been there I nearly got caught bunking my fare . |
| 60 | So this last time she wanted to be in her office , correct and professional at the right time . |