Those that occurred in the past year alone are testimony to this reality.

In the last year alone, the stock of bonds on the Fed s balance sheet has risen more than 20 .

As a country that has been hit by six consecutive waves of floods within the past year alone, we know only too well what it means to live through such a disaster.

Indeed, over 5,000 people were killed by organized drug criminals last year, more than double the death toll in 2007.

Remember last year.

More than 6,500 fatalities will have occurred this year alone, topping last year s total, which was double that in 2007.

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?

It snowed more this year than last.

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.

Last month alone, 54,000 Yemeni workers were expelled from Saudi Arabia.

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.

Last year alone, in the same region, Red Cross staff and volunteers reached 1.4 million people with messages on HIV ADS prevention.

Was he in Hokkaido last year?

Tom traveled a lot last year.

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.

Experimentally, this is what we've done in the last year.

I left Shanghai last year and have not yet been back.

Last year was a bad one for free trade.

Last year witnessed a decisive turn in Latin America.

This past year has seen one missed opportunity after another.

We do not believe that has been achieved over the past year.

We tagged 105 sharks last summer.

Over the past year, Darfur has spun out of government control.

Over the past year, however, the shroud of mystery has begun to drop.

Raz had more to say to his friends last year, too

Last Saturday the Director General arrested 15 police officers.

Most countries increased funding levels over the past year.

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

Everybody remembers last year's terrorist attack in Beslan.

I am writing to draw your attention to the most recent terrorist attacks perpetrated against the citizens of Israel in the last week alone.

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.

But confrontations between the United States and China, the US and Japan, and China and Japan over the past year have left many wondering whether economic interdependence alone can bring about stable regional relations.

Therefore, this year, too, the text is similar to that of last year, with only technical updates.

It was the origin of the Xerox copier, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year.

Last year, however, exports fell by about 15 .

Such a majority spoke last year, when it elected Morsi.