We were losing 750, 000 jobs a month during the winter of last year.

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"It's contributed to the increase we have seen all through the winter and for most of last year, " he said.

BBC: Wolverhampton A&E patients 'in corridor trolley waits'

The last time the AAII poll was 48% bearish was on September 22 of last year, just as the big rally of October to May got underway last winter.

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Transport Minister Norman Baker was speaking during a Westminster Hall debate on 1 December 2011 on a report by the Transport Committee on the impact of last year's winter weather.

BBC: Transport debate

Some of the performance figures are subdued by comparison with the start of last year as Aggreko is not benefiting from the one-off gains from the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the build-up to the FIFA World Cup in South Africa and the Asian Games.

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At the end of last year, China witnessed its worst winter drought ever delaying the plantation of new cotton crop in the Hubei province of China.

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Home Depot shares might not have held up under pressure when the company reported fourth quarter results because of a highly profitable winter last year an unseasonably warm period that boosted numbers across retail.

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Last year, he took up kite skiing, the winter version of kite surfing, with some of his adventure buddies.

WSJ: The Push for Weekend 'Epics' on the Mountain

The Tahoe area historically gets a ton of snow, and while they struggled last winter, this year things seem to be back to normal.

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You will all remember a crucial breakthrough in the James Holmes case that came courtesy of Jana Winter, a veteran Fox News journalist, in late July of last year.

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