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?

That was last year.

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

Remember last year.

Was he in Hokkaido last year?

Tom traveled a lot last year.

It snowed more this year than last.

Nine dashes, and a historic claim

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.

I proposed such a plan last year.

This hotel was built last year.

I came to Japan last year.

He stopped smoking last year.

Last year, there was a bad harvest.

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

Last year witnessed a decisive turn in Latin America.

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

We tagged 105 sharks last summer.

Everybody remembers last year's terrorist attack in Beslan.

In the past year, key standards have been set.

Last year, however, exports fell by about 15 .

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

Yemeni women played an important role in their country's revolution this past year.

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

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.

The eventual winner, Alberto Contador, is himself alleged to have had a positive test result last year.

He was traveling in the Philippines this time last year.

The IMF s resurgence over the past year is breathtaking.

We saw this with the false allegations of the desecration of a Koran last year.

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

Last year, the organisation arranged for a special meal for the street children in a posh restaurant.

Last year in Qatar, a migrant worker from Nepal died every two days.

Last year we announced that we would join the Mine Ban Treaty.

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

The Comptroller replied that emphasis had been given to the matter in the last year.

Last year, it was Burma s Buddhist monks who were shot and beaten with batons.

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

Last year was a bad one for free trade.

This past year has seen one missed opportunity after another.

And just this last month, the exam results came in, and in math, science, marks went up 20 percent on average last year.

Last year, I was invited to speak at NBA All Stars game.

Last year was the hottest ever recorded in the US.

You can read about last year's winners on this post.