Last Christmas Eve Michael Harding's wife Gretchen was in bed with the stomach flu.
Then, he flew home last Christmas for what was supposed to be two weeks' leave.
His charm offensive last Christmas, presents of books and videos on Argentina's natural beauty has been frostily received.
Last Christmas was the worst for ten years, and the gloom shows little sign of lifting.
The PlayStation, despite successfully warding off the N64 last Christmas, is definitely starting to show its age.
Last Christmas brought in more cash than Target execs needed for the incremental pace of store remodels.
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Example: Last Christmas my mother said she read a good book and tomorrow I will read the book she recommended.
Last Christmas, Wales' four police forces distributed two million beer mats warning of the danger of date-rate drugging during the festive season.
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The drop in applications for courses starting this month also follows the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve in Manchester last Christmas.
The 17.4 million devices compares to an estimated 6.8 million iOS and Android devices last Christmas, a 156% increase year over year.
We vacationed here last Christmas, and I was introduced to an attorney who was looking to expand his practice to include my area of expertise.
The company had strong EU and Asian traction around last Christmas, but has since suffered grievously from launch delays of its new models.
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He was working for Blackwater USA when he allegedly shot and killed a bodyguard of one of the Iraqi vice presidents last Christmas.
The film had been due for release last Christmas but was pushed back by Warner Bros to ensure it "reaches the largest audience possible".
These machines, deployed in response to the underpants bomber last Christmas, produce revealing images of the body, which makes travellers worry about their privacy.
But after he came home last Christmas on short-term leave, Talley started shaking uncontrollably and crying so he didn't return to combat, as scheduled.
Kurtzman says that when he raised watch prices last Christmas he didn't notice a meaningful decrease in demand, proving that selection is more important than price.
Thus the fund made a small investment in a company called Cybiko, whose wireless game and e-mail device was a hit with U.S. kids last Christmas.
Just last Christmas Day he was very happy to sit with a large glass of red wine having enjoyed a good dinner and chuckling at Absolutely Fabulous on TV.
He says that staff work under difficult conditions and that last Christmas some had to pool their money together to buy cake and cookies for the elderly residents.
Then, last Christmas, I discovered what financial freedom really means.
When Mr Abdulmutallab failed to detonate his bomb last Christmas, for example, Mr Obama's Republican foes were quick to accuse the vacationing president of flaccidity in face of danger.
Last Christmas season I went to L.L. Bean to order some rain gear and repeatedly watched my computer curl up like a constipated dog every time I clicked on the order button.
That's exactly what Ann and Tom Kent did when they took their kids and grandkids to the Galapagos Islands last Christmas to celebrate their 50th anniversary, a trip arranged by Thomson Family Adventures.
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Last Christmas, I wrote a piece for Forbes, pointing out that 2011 was an unparalleled year of uncertainty because so much had happened that left us twisting in the wind, wondering what would happen next.
It is a phenomenon said to be part of the demise last year of Jessops and Comet, and a survey by agency Foolproof found that 24% of us admitted to doing it in the run-up to last Christmas.
But the publication of the paper in the scientific journal Lutra just before last Christmas seems to have been the catalyst that the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) needed to come out against the cull.
Police said they prevented the bombing in a train station in Madrid last Christmas Eve, arresting the alleged plotters and seizing those who were planning to carry out the attack hours before it was to have taken place, Acebes said.
The El Segundo-based company is accusing the toy retailing giant of wooing Fuhu to sign an agreement to sell the Nabi exclusively through its 1, 600 stores and Web site last Christmas, using promises of millions of dollars in marketing and merchadising incentives as inducement.
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