Example sentences of "last [noun] announce " in BNC.
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| 1 | TRUE to form , the Reagan administration last Monday announced that national defence will get the best pickings of the federal budget for 1984 . |
| 2 | RAMAN SUBBA ROW , the chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board since 1985 , last night announced his intended retirement next year . |
| 3 | PRESIDENT F W de Klerk last night announced the unconditional release of eight prominent political prisoners , notably Walter Sisulu , 77 , former secretary-general of the African National Congress and the closest political associate and oldest friend of Nelson Mandela , with whom he was jailed for life in 1964 . |
| 4 | DUTCH ace Ruud Gullit last night announced his international retirement ‘ for personal reasons . ’ |
| 5 | FLORIDA Police last night announced they had arrested a man in connection with the killing of a German tourist shot dead on a Miami highway less than 24 hours earlier . |
| 6 | Mrs Kinnock , 47 , last month announced her intention to stand for the 1994 European Parliament elections in the South East Wales constituency . |
| 7 | The recession-hit company last month announced the closure of 330 shops in Britain and America following a £122 million loss . |
| 8 | A spokesman for the party , based at Mentmore Towers , Beds , said that when full-page advertisements were placed in national newspapers last month announcing its formation , Harrison had called to offer his support . |
| 9 | Mercedes last week announced the car with which it will defend its world sportscar crown and begin preparations for an F1 assault . |
| 10 | The Kingfisher group , whose name was changed from Woolworths earlier this year , includes about 720 high street shops under the Woolworths name , electrical retailer Comet with 307 outlets , Britain 's leading DIY group , B&Q , and Superdrug , the high street chain which last week announced that it is buying Medicare from the Gateway supermarket chain 's new owners Isosceles . |
| 11 | Although the SERC last week announced a two-year reprieve for the Nuclear Structure Facility ( NSF ) at Daresbury which faced closure , grants for new research will be halved , a solution Phillips called ‘ extreme ’ . |
| 12 | The SERC last week announced cuts of £28 million . |
| 13 | The Iraqi air force last week announced it would attack with Exocet missiles any ship taking on Iranian crude oil . |
| 14 | ACORN Computers , the maker of the BBC Microcomputer , last week announced it was replacing 3600 defective tape recorders sent out under the Department of Industry 's scheme to provide schools with half-price computers . |
| 15 | Having last week announced that it is backing Ken Livingstone for the Labour leadership , it now says it supports the ‘ Sun Readers ' Party ’ . |
| 16 | THE GOVERNMENT last week announced the worst unemployment figures for four years . |
| 17 | Digital Equipment Corp last week announced its first full Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment product , DCE for DEC OSF/1 software , available in July . |
| 18 | Saying that it suffered a sudden drop in demand during last year 's third quarter , an upsurge in the normally strong fourth quarter , and another significant decline in early 1993 , Amdahl Corp last week announced a big new round of cuts , saying that 1,100 jobs , 12.9% of its worldwide workforce , must go in response to current market conditions . |
| 19 | IBM 's Programming Systems Division last week announced a strategic partnership with Object Design Inc and says it will use the Burlington , Massachusetts-based firm 's ObjectStore object database for all of its future object-based application development . |
| 20 | Microsoft Corp last week announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 21 | President Clinton last week announced a plan to add a new Clipper Chip in every government phone and computer line to prevent eavesdropping : the chip was developed by the US National Institute for Standards and Technology , and is expected to be used by commercial and private users as well ; to assure privacy , each chip containing the encryption devices would be assigned two unique keys that will be needed to decode messages ; according to the New York Times , they will be fabricated by Micotronx Inc , Torrance , California and VLSI Technology Inc , San Jose , and AT&T Co says it will incorporate the chip in its secure communications product line . |
| 22 | Samsung Electronics Co is expanding its tie with Hewlett-Packard Co and last week announced a two-year order for $50m of Precision Architecture RISC workstations . |
| 23 | Amdahl Corp last week announced UTS Release 4 , claiming it to be the world 's first commercial Unix System V.4.1ES-based system according to Ken Gorf , director , Open Systems , Europe . |
| 24 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA last week announced that it has expanded the number of software and communications products offered under its Distributed Computing Model to the DPX/20 Unix and DPS GCOS systems , and it introduced two new models of the DPX/20 , based on IBM 's Power RISC architecture . |
| 25 | ICL Plc and Microsoft Corp last week announced that they will work together long-term on systems integration . |
| 26 | IBM Corp last week announced formation of the worldwide IBM Consulting Group to provide management and information technology-related consulting services . |
| 27 | IBM 's Pennant Systems last week announced the extension of its Advanced Function Printing into the AIX/6000 environment and WISIWYG viewing on PS/2 screens under Windows . |
| 28 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc , Beaverton , Oregon , last week announced ptx/Clusters , a clustering capability enabling applications to view multiple-node systems as a single very large system using a single shared database . |
| 29 | As anticipated , Unix Systems Laboratories Inc last week announced that it was joining X/Open Ltd under the new technical membership structure the consortium put in place in October . |
| 30 | Unix vendor Sequent Computer Systems Inc last week announced details of a new line of symmetric multprocessing systems running Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system which will come in at the low-end of its product range . |