Example sentences of "the same [noun sg] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I started the same way last year , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The construction industry has an excellent provision for youth training , unlike many other sectors of British industry , but by 20 November 1991 , only 9,562 young people had started on YT , compared with 11,877 by the same date last year . |
| 3 | The number of centenarians , which rose by 650 as of September 1 , compared with the same date last year , was the highest in 23 years , the Health and Welfare Ministry said . |
| 4 | In the same poll last week , the Tories also had a half-point lead . |
| 5 | His Billingham-based operation , Century bought 185 pubs for around £60m from the same brewer last November . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a good time to win with the Masters coming up , ’ said Couples , who lost to Corey Pavin in a play-off in the same event last year . |
| 7 | Sally , area organiser of the King George V Fund for Sailors , said : ‘ For the same event last year , there was n't a seat to be had , but this year we are having trouble selling tickets . ’ |
| 8 | London is faring particularly badly : this quarter new commissions were valued at £3,143 million , 23 per cent down on the previous quarter and dramatically down on the £7,247 million value for the same quarter last year . |
| 9 | If there 's a rise compared with the same quarter last year , could there be a good reason , perhaps a new baby or a recently retired person spending more time at home ? |
| 10 | The car division of America 's Ford made a $176m net profit in the first quarter of 1993 , compared with a $16m loss in the same quarter last year . |
| 11 | In the quarter to June 30 , Nippon Silicon Graphics Inc increased its revenues 20% over the same quarter last year , to the equivalent of $107.9m . |
| 12 | First quarter results , while down a drastic 80% compared with the same quarter last year , at least showed a profit of $0.8 million , notching up DG 's second profitable quarter in a row and making six profitable quarters out of the last eight . |
| 13 | An underwriting deficit for the period of $4m compares with losses of $65m in the same quarter last year and $42m in the final quarter of 1992 . |
| 14 | However , I managed a League Cup match in 1990 ( QPR 3–0 after 20 mins — we murdered them ) , and the debacle at Watford in the same competition last year ( 1–2 ) . |
| 15 | On the same course last week , Wonder Man lost his unbeaten chasing record after making a bad blunder at the penultimate fence . |
| 16 | Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday . |
| 17 | Ever Dennis Peck 's Bad Boy , Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer Scott McNealy got some mileage out of the fact that Sun , DEC and Hewlett-Packard all made their announcements the same day last week : ‘ there 's a lot of noise out there right now , ’ he told his satellite audience . |
| 18 | Judge power The authorised number of Lords Justices was at present 26 , one less than at the same time last year . |
| 19 | In January 1983 , the water content of reservoirs in South Africa had fallen to 50 per cent of its level at the same time last year , and the 1982 maize crop was 40 per cent lower than the record of 40 million tonnes harvested in 1981 . |
| 20 | Just 33,000 cars were registered in July — and only 13,000 by private motorists — a drop of eight per cent on the same time last year . |
| 21 | It is already apparent that players are much fitter than at the same time last season . |
| 22 | Total at the same time last year was £269.40 . |
| 23 | And you wo n't need reminding what happened here at very much the same time last night . ’ |
| 24 | The amount of money donated to the Village Association through the envelopes is less than at the same time last year . |
| 25 | Total at the same time last year was £269.40 . |
| 26 | But at the same time last year 42 people had lost their lives at the hands of the roaming death squads . |
| 27 | ‘ Demand has been increasing steadily since November and we 're now dealing with twice the number of applications compared to the same time last year . |
| 28 | I suspect they 're better at this stage than the same time last year . |
| 29 | So far this year , drugs officers have made more than 130 seizures — twice the figure for the same time last year . |
| 30 | The total number killed was 16 fewer than at the same time last year . |