Until the fourth quarter of last year, the US economic recovery that began in the summer of 2009 was decidedly anemic.

The International Monetary Fund estimates that the euro s share of foreign exchange reserves rose to 26.4 percent in third quarter of 2007 from 25.5 percent in the second quarter of 2007, and 24.4 percent in the third quarter of 2006.

In the first quarter of this year, Chinese banks foreign exchange purchases skyrocketed to a record 1.2 trillion ( 195 billion) more than double last year s total.

Today, the index is at its lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2001.

It snowed more this year than last.

Meanwhile, interest rates on bank loans to nonfinancial enterprises remain close to 7 , despite having fallen slightly over the last year. And, in the second quarter of this year, the annualized interest rate on loans to small nonfinancial corporations surpassed 25 .

Annual GDP growth slowed significantly in the last quarter, to 4.4 , consumer price inflation is high, and the current account and budget deficits last year were too large.

Remember last year.

In the first quarter of this year, the eurozone s public debt ratio actually rose, to 92.2 of GDP.

Though second quarter GDP growth was weak the euro zone average was only 0.3 year on year third quarter data are indicating a sustained economic pick up in the second half of the year.

The renminbi s rise over the past month can be attributed to greater global liquidity since the start of the third quarter, as policymakers have responded to the eurozone s sovereign debt crisis and stagnating output.

So I thought, around last year in the beginning of the last year I started thinking, Why can I not take this approach in the reverse way?

His Government had undertaken improvements to the Karni border crossing between Gaza and Israel, which had facilitated the export of Palestinian products into Israel, and had reduced the level of unemployment in Gaza by 8.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2005 compared to the equivalent quarter the previous year.

Official data suggest that the US economy entered into a recession in the first quarter of this year.

Nine dashes, and a historic claim

It would be very easy to transform last year s bonus, based on last year s performance, into this year s salary.

Two thirds of Nobel Laureates in the sciences during the last quarter century were Americans many of the others do or did research at American universities.

The Secretary General's report referred to a number of actions to be taken in the last quarter of 2005.

The Ifo World Economic Climate index deteriorated in the third quarter of 2008 for the fourth consecutive time.

Indeed, the economy shrank by 3.5 year on year in the first quarter.

This hotel was built last year.

I came to Japan last year.

He stopped smoking last year.

Last year, there was a bad harvest.

That was last year.

Second quarter German GDP has stalled after a surprisingly strong first quarter.

The third quarter is shaping up to be much like the second.

The second part of the report deals with the activities and achievements of the past year.

For example, the average homeowner premium in Florida soared from 723 at the start of 2002 to 1,465 in the first quarter of 2007.

Was he in Hokkaido last year?

Tom traveled a lot last year.

In the US, the climate indicator declined again, after having sunk dramatically in the second quarter, bringing it to its lowest level since 1991.

This spring, the State Environmental Protection Administration produced the country s first official estimate of GDP adjusted downward for environmental losses.

Some of the banks did report earnings in the first quarter of this year, mostly based on accounting legerdemain and trading profits (read speculation).

Last year, however, exports fell by about 15 .

And we said, OK, we try. Germany has taken in hundreds of thousands of Syrian war refugees over the past year.

Since last year, we have moved closer to realizing the objective of universal adherence to the Convention, and Australia congratulates those States that acceded in the past year Burkina Faso, Estonia and Latvia.

When Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other executives of Yukos, his oil company, were arrested last year, corporations investing or interested in investing in Russia were prepared to interpret the crackdown as an isolated incident brought on by the political agenda of the company and its CEO, who should have known better. Never mind that by the second half of 2003, it had become obvious that the government intended to use legal means in the form of massive tax claims to destroy the company.

Last year, I took a more conceptual approach to the valentine.

Tom didn't live in Boston last year.

It would be interesting to know last year's statistics.

I proposed such a plan last year.

He was traveling in the Philippines this time last year.

The past year has been one of the most difficult years in modern Palestinian history.

This phenomenon is said to consume an estimated 6 billion Malaysian ringgit, or 1.5 billion, resulting from loss of productivity, medical costs, management costs and property damage, among others.