Profits were at the same level as the year before.

利润和前一年的持平。

In 1850, he exhibited 4 of these late paintings in the Academy, in the year before he died.

1850年，也就在他去世的前一年，他在学院的展览上展出了4幅这样的晚期作品。

The index rated oil-rich Libya, a hollowed-out shell of a state run by a murderous madman, all the way down at 111th in the year before its civil war.

该指数将石油资源丰富的利比亚，一个由凶残的疯子统治的空壳国家，排在了内战前一年的第111位。

The year before last he won a gold medal, and the year before that he won a silver.

他前年得了一枚金牌，大前年得了一枚银牌。

I start with 2006, the year before the crisis began.

我们首先看看危机爆发前一年——2006年。