Example sentences of "last year and [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repayment in full of Romania 's foreign debt , which had peaked in the early 1980s at more than US$11,000 million , had been a priority of the Ceausescu regime in its last years and had been accomplished by April 1989 [ see p. 36622 ] . |
| 2 | ' Another worker , who stood as a Conservative councillor , said she had encountered Mr Lawson at a reception last year and had been asked by the Chancellor why she had lost . |
| 3 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 4 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 5 | One big star , Billy Ray Cyrus , was invented by the marketing men last year and has been playing more or less bubblegum pop . |
| 6 | Romany King was a good second to Party Politics last year and has been trained for the race . |