Example sentences of "end [prep] last year " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I saw my bank manager at the end of last year and she asked me why I was spending so much on food . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Unhappy , Mr Afman resigned from the bank in July 1988 , though he was retained as a consultant until the end of last year . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At the end of last year they had $13 billion and $9 billion of net assets respectively , according to Lipper Analytical Services . |
| 11 | But for every house sold from the agency 's inventory — 2,728 by the end of last year — two more were not . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One effort to foster communication between such groups of specialists took place over a week in Berlin at the end of last year . |
| 22 | It was only towards the end of last year , when the book was going to press and space was tight , that I realised how important a contribution was made not only by my work , but also the work of all the women who had contributed to the Project both nationally and internationally . |
| 23 | One reason was the company 's decision , at the end of last year , to switch from multimode fibre optics to a newer type of cable called monomode . |
| 24 | By the end of last year , almost £300 million had been allocated under the scheme to more than 7000 companies . |
| 25 | This was out of the 850 000 or so collisions the UA1 apparatus recorded towards the end of last year from a total of about one thousand million actual collisions . |
| 26 | According to sources in Washington , officials in the Department of Commerce decided at the end of last year to recommend this strategy to the president as the most effective way of relinquishing responsibility for the US 's Landsat system . |
| 27 | Nuclear power stations do make tempting military or terrorist targets , as the sabotage at South Africa 's first nuclear power station at Koeberg near Cape Town at the end of last year clearly showed . |
| 28 | The programmes are beamed from Anik C , a telecommunications satellite that went into orbit at the end of last year . |
| 29 | SEWERS : At the end of last year the House of Lords ' select committee on science and technology reported on the state of Britain 's water industry . |
| 30 | At the end of last year , the FDA was persuaded that the Utah Medical Center had evolved a plastic and aluminium ‘ heart ’ ( known as the Jarvik 7 , after its designer , Dr Robert Jarvik ) which stood a chance of sustaining some kind of life , and permission was given for a series of seven experiments , employing the new toy , after which the instrument 's worth was to be reviewed . |