Last year, for the first time in 15 years, less than one half of the oil consumed in the US was imported.

As a result of such delays, only three new units began operating last year half the number of reactors that were shut down.

The past half a century of work in the service of justice

Last year, there were under 250,000 new cases of leprosy reported in the world, over half of them in India.

And last year marked half a century since a nuclear power plant first supplied energy to the electricity grid in what is now the Russian Federation.

Remember last year.

They account for half of public spending.

And, in the United States, roughly half of bachelor s degree holders under the age of 25 were jobless or underemployed upon graduation last year.

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.

Anti capitalist revolution was tried in half of Europe in the last century, with dire results.

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.

For most of the previous half century, the North sought relentlessly to impose its will on the South.

Stories like Detroit s have played out several times in developed countries during the last half century.

It is thus apparent that in a number of retentionist countries the person who has been sentenced to death plays no part in the process nor is the pardoning process subject to the requirements of due process, or subject to review.

Was he in Hokkaido last year?

Tom traveled a lot last year.

Last century sea levels rose by half that amount without most of us even noticing.

The US cannot continue with the failed policies of the past half century.

Almost half of those who wished to get children at the end of the 1990s decided to postpone it due to financial reasons.

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.

Indeed, these estimates are roughly half a percentage point lower than those issued only last autumn.

It is this extraordinary, historic act that made possible the reconstruction and successful development of Europe over the last half century.

Nowhere is that more evident than in the numerous conflicts Africa has seen in the past 50 years.

For the past half century, this has represented Europe s revolutionary recipe for peace, and has served as something of a microcosm of globalization.

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