The LIMIT clause can take two parameters, which will provide an offset:
The LIMIT clause can be used to constrain the number of rows returned
  by the SELECT statement. LIMIT takes one or two numeric arguments,
  which must both be nonnegative integer constants (except when using
  prepared statements).
With two arguments, the first argument specifies the offset of the
  first row to return, and the second specifies the maximum number of
  rows to return. The offset of the initial row is 0 (not 1):
SELECT * FROM tbl LIMIT 5,10;  # Retrieve rows 6-15 To retrieve all
  rows from a certain offset up to the end of the result set, you can
  use some large number for the second parameter. This statement
  retrieves all rows from the 96th row to the last:
SELECT * FROM tbl LIMIT 95,18446744073709551615; With one argument,
  the value specifies the number of rows to return from the beginning of
  the result set:
SELECT * FROM tbl LIMIT 5;     # Retrieve first 5 rows
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html
So with this:
SELECT name, cost FROM test orderby name asc LIMIT 990, 10;