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The availability of the substitute "last year" for "2013"?

Thats clever! The longer a year has gone, the less likely you will say "last year", "one year ago", "two years ago" and rather go for the years "full name" like "2014". This could be a reason for the revivals.

I was thinking about these too. I did not came up with an idea what it could be. Maybe just noise and we interpret something into it?

Elections?