Example sentences of "the last year in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , 1862 was the last year in which a considerable quantity of New Forest timber was supplied to the Royal Navy . |
| 2 | The fish harvested in the Eastern Mediterranean totalled 135 000 tonnes in 1964 , the last year in which floodwater reached the sea unimpeded , with sardines accounting for 15 000 tonnes . |
| 3 | The whole kaleidoscope is there in the memory : how proud we were of our daughter Sara 's acting ability , at junior school , at senior and at college ; and of our younger , very shy son , who managed a one-line walk-on part the last year in junior school , but wrote , acted in , sang in and played for a satirical revue at University . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Between 1967 and 1973 ( the last year in which rural districts were a distinct administrative category ) , the number of council houses built annually in rural areas was almost cut in half , from 35000 to 18000 , while private-sector housing held steady at just over 70000 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have spent most of the last year in what was once Yugoslavia , much of it in the beautiful and doomed Republic of Bosnia Hercegovina and it has left me scarcely able to think , far less write about anything else . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Kemp has spent the last year in charge at Conference club Slough who have appointed former Millwall and Bradford City boss John Docherty in his place . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Everybody 's aware that this may well be the last Gen , the last Party Conference before the General Election , and what is more , of , an impression of the terrific progress that the Labour Party 's made in recent years , and further gains over the last year in terms of public support , so that we really are on the threshold of a General Election campaign which we realistically hope to win , and we 've got the policies in place to meet the needs of the nation for the nineties . |