Spanish: mes ante-anteriorEnglish translation: last but one/penultimate 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | Spanish term or phrase: | ante anterior | | English translation: | last but one/penultimate | | Entered by: | Comunican |
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Tech/Engineering - Mathematics & Statistics | | Spanish term or phrase: mes ante-anterior | the whole sentence is: "Para el valor actualizado se tomará el valor del indicador correspondiente al mes ante-anterior al de aplication del reajuste" Could it be last month but one, perhaps?
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 Anne Patteet
Ecuador
| Note from asker to answererthanks -this helped me make it more succinct! Thanks to everyone
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| what you say
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I think your answer is right
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Note added at 10 mins (2006-11-17 13:41:51 GMT)
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that is, the month before last
| SteveW
Spain
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| two months before
Explanation:
since we don't know the exact month of the event, we can't use "the month before last" or the "penultimate month". And I can't, at present, think of a way of avoiding the introduction of "before"
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The translation workplace 
