He had been elected head of the BDP and was serving as vice-president last year when then-president Festus Mogae retired.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

And so this is why in problem set 5 last year when I took photographs on campus with a compact flash card, just standard consumer media and I accidentally formatted that compact flash card, I only lost the first few kilobytes, the first few thousand bits on that compact flash card.

这也是去年的套题5中,我们在校园里面用配有，简易闪存卡的标准摄像机拍照片,我不小心格式化了这个简易闪存卡,其实我只是丢失的最开头的几千个字节的数据。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And then when I took my Russian class last year, I really liked it

而且我去年上俄语课时，我非常喜欢，

选择国际学的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Sixteen-year-old Sylvia Cheung was introduced to Junior Achievement last year when she joined a student company in Houston,Texas.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

I'm a little short but I was doing OK. But I did do some research when I saw this book last year.

虽然款项很少，但是我还做得不错,我去年看这本书的时候，做了些调查。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Mehsud was killed in August last year when a missile fired by a suspected U.S drone targeted his hideout in Pakistan's volatile South Waziristan tribal region.

VOA: standard.2010.01.09

When the bombs went off in London last year, I thought about Yeats and what he might have thought or written about this.

去年伦敦爆炸案发生时，我想到了叶芝,我想象他会想些什么,他会为此写些什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Thai economists are warning Thailand's unemployment levels could reach 1.3 million people this year, more than double the530,000 people who lost their jobs last year when the unemployment rate stood at 1.4 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.03.09

And then third year when I taught it which was the last time, I had 850 students in the class, making it at that point the largest course at Harvard.

到了第三年，也就是上一次开课，有850人参加，是当时哈佛人数最多的课程。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So far the protests have been largely peaceful, in contrast to anti-government demonstrations in April last year when the government was forced to enact security laws with the military brought in to end the unrest.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

That was down from last year, when more than three thousand walkers raised almost seven and a half million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

That was mostly when fuel prices were so high last year that people in California were not driving to her stores.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Paul Perachi left the court last year at seventy, the age when judges in Massachusetts must retire.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

The first "Paranormal Activity" movie was a huge success when it came out last year.

VOA: special.2010.10.29

Mr.Wen said trade has soared in modern times, more than tripling between 2004 and last year, when it topped $132 billion.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

The attacks resembled other bombings since the middle of last year, when U.S.troops withdrew from Iraqi cities.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

Specter had been a Republican senator up until last year, when he switched to the Democratic Party, with the backing of President Barack Obama.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

It's a good thing Nathan Gelder knew the universal sign for choking when he was having lunch last year with his friend Kaiden Condos.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

That would be in keeping with legislation proposed last year by Vice-President Joe Biden when he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"I think FIFA president Sepp Blatter was very adamant last year here at the Confederations Cup when these vuvuzelas were a big talk of the tournament."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Last year,some 800 people died when a ferry capsized in rough seas.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

Nearby,Marina Pirozhnivona, recounted how her 86-year-old aunt died last Saturday after experiencing breathing problems on a day when wood smoke pushed city carbon monoxide to almost seven times safe levels.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

They were expecting a much stronger intervention by Obama last year,in 2009, when Obama stepped back from his demand for a complete settlement freeze and this led Palestinians to feel betrayed and abandoned."

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

Russians were awoken to the threat posed by the destruction of a hydroelectric plant last year, when a major accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in Siberia threatened the lives of millions of people downstream.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

"Last year was our first year with Home Instead when they sponsored the 'Be Santa to a Senior.' And every single resident here we have a hundred and thirty plus residents- everyone got a gift.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

In fact,U.S.and NATO military commanders say insurgent violence rose nearly 60 percent between the first six months of this year, compared to last year the highest level of violence since 2001 when the Taliban government was ousted by US.led forces.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

He was acquitted in a 2006 rape trial, during which he admitted having unsafe sex with an HIV-positive woman, and he came under political pressure recently when it emerged that he fathered a child out of wedlock last year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26