In the second half of 1997, British exports to Thailand, at £380m, were 22% less than a year before; sales to South Korea, at £604m, were more than 5% down.The Asian crisis, says Graham Green, managing director of W. Canning, a chemicals firm in Birmingham, "has knackered ten years' worth of pricing strategy".
We're making steps towards sending a team of astronauts to colonise and populate Mars, which is impressive until you realise it's because we've knackered our home planet, the Earth doesn't have a vacant second floor, and it's easier to send humanity offsite than it is to get our heads around solar power and an economy not based on black dinosaur juice.
I don't know about you, but we're only a few days in to London 2012, and all this talk of sprinting and jumping over shit and cycling at 70 miles per hour against tattooed packs of German lesbians has knackered me out already.
You must have been knackered It's such an enigma.
You must have been knackered at the end of that run... Well, the way I look at it is the pain of increasing lactate acid of the muscles, which increases because you can't get enough oxygen through breathing, I think that's rather cancelled out by the exhilaration and the mental excitement of it all.
If it gets very hot, as it has been over the last few days, then you can't keep bowling seamers, they will get knackered.
You've basically knackered your chances of ever playing Doctor Who, haven't you?
I've felt knackered (not sure if this is linked), the bruises I experience on my legs have gotten worse and there are some days my abdomen is rocked with horrible cramps.
Before putting on the 12kg rhino suit, she said: "I've got a knackered knee, I've never run in my life, I just hope to limp over the finish line".
All my team-mates said later, 'There was too much time left, we'd have been too knackered to play on if we'd followed you'".
