| 1 | I haven't seen him since the Christmas before last. | |
| 2 | But it is 17% more than the year before. | |
| 3 | They were in fashion last year and the year before last. But they're not in fashion this year. | |
| 4 | It had broken down the previous summer, and though I promised to repair it, I had never got round to it. | |
| 5 | Now I don't know how impressed you are, the year before that it was 22% in one year. |