Example sentences of "[adj] year [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I Galileo Galilei , being in my seventieth year having before my eyes the Holy Gospel , which I touch with my hands , abjure , curse and detest the error and heresy of the movement of the Earth . ’ |
| 2 | So if we 're talking about something talking about something taking a light year to reach us in terms of light , any possibility of human contact we 're talking about millions of years , probably , rather than a few years . |
| 3 | The survey showed that exports in the current fiscal year grew 22 per cent while imports rose 10 per cent . |
| 4 | The People 's Assembly on June 28 , 1989 , approved a budget of Epounds 33,600 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1 , an increase of 16.9 per cent on the previous year 's figure . |
| 5 | Only 6 per cent of education spending came from the federal budget and it was estimated that the cost of Bush 's proposals would at federal level absorb $820 million of the federal budget of $27,100 million for the fiscal year beginning on Oct. 1 . |
| 6 | In May the House of Representatives approved a 66,236,791 million yen budget for the fiscal year beginning on April 1 , 1990 . |
| 7 | In late December 1990 the Cabinet approved the budget for the fiscal year beginning in April 1991 , in which it was predicted that the economy would grow by 3.8 per cent . |
| 8 | Finance Minister Hu Tsu Tau introduced to Parliament on March 1 , 1991 , the budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1 , 1991 , [ see p. 37575 for details of 1990 budget ] . |
| 9 | Chen also said that Taiwan would spend US$5,000 million on weapons programmes during the next fiscal year beginning in July . |
| 10 | On March 4 Hamish Macleod , the Hong Kong Financial Secretary , unveiled the budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1 , 1992 . |
| 11 | Defence cuts of up to $8 billion more than the Bush administration had planned for the fiscal year beginning in October . |
| 12 | The Chancellor is expected to modify the Government 's policy of buying in enough long-dated gilt-edged stock in a single fiscal year to offset the financial drain on the economy created by the budget surplus and foreign exchange intervention to support the pound — the so-called full funding rule . |
| 13 | Microsoft 's global sales for its previous fiscal year totalled $2,280m , with net profit of $581.4m . |
| 14 | ( This figure in the 1989/90 fiscal year had been revised from initial budget estimates of 4.1 per cent to 1.6 per cent relative to GDP . ) |
| 15 | Carrollton , Texas-based Westcott Communications Inc is to acquire some assets of TI-IN Network Inc , San Antonio , Texas , for 350,000 new Westcott shares worth about $11m , plus assumption of some liabilities ; TI-IN had audited revenues of some $7.3m and made a net loss of $697,000 for its fiscal year ended September 30 last ; it provides live interactive courses with two-way communication for school pupils in Grades K to 12 ; Westcott Communications says it pioneered satellite delivery of workplace training . |
| 16 | It would like to fetch five times revenues — which were $160m in the fiscal year ended September 30 — but then who would n't . |
| 17 | Despite the nationwide economic recession , at the time of the election Queensland 's tourism-driven economy was growing at a rate second only to that of mineral-rich Western Australia , with economic growth for the current fiscal year estimated at 4 per cent compared with 3 per cent for Australia as a whole . |
| 18 | This Act was quickly passed following comments made by the Auditor General in his report for the fiscal year ended 31 March 1976 In that report the Auditor General had declared that ( p. 9 ) : |
| 19 | Since Novell 's fiscal year closed on October 31 , Univel did n't want to do anything to louse things up for Novell . |
| 20 | In the fiscal year ending in March 1990 , the debt-equity ratio for TSE-listed firms was only 1.07 . |
| 21 | The largest , Fujitsu Facom Information Processing ( FIP ) , ranks among the top 10 information processing firms with a turnover for the fiscal year ending March 1982 of 9500 million yen ( $34.93 million ) . |
| 22 | It cited Friday 's announcement by Fujitsu that it is lowering its earnings forecast to show a substantial loss for the fiscal year ending March 31 as the reason for the review ; the review affects 120,000m of yen-denominated bonds , a $330m bond , a 320m Swiss franc issue and a 200,000m commercial paper programme , it noted . |
| 23 | And up until now , it has pumped a high level of turnover back into just such research and development — out of £820,000 sales for the fiscal year ending March 1992 , some £213,000 went on this activity , while for the year ending March 1993 , the figure was more like £414,000 , out of total revenues of only £922,000 . |
| 24 | Oracle Corp chief financial officer Jeff Henley says that Oracle7 should be in production by the end of this month : he told the Alex Brown technology seminar in Baltimore that Version 7 will be available through a controlled release programme as its customers request upgrades ; he also said that Oracle 's goal is to return to double-digit profit growth — if not by this fiscal year ending May 31 1993 , then fiscal 1994 at latest . |
| 25 | The resulting combination is expected to produce total sales for UniComp of some $15m with projected profits of $2m for the fiscal year ending February 1994 . |
| 26 | The World Bank granted Algeria a total of dollars 341,000,000 in loans during its fiscal year ending June 30 , 1989 , including a dollars 63,000,000 loan for improvements to the ports of Algiers , Oran and Annaba was approved on June 29 ( see also pp. 36749 ; 36905 ) . |
| 27 | The budget for the fiscal year ending on March 31 , 1991 , was presented to parliament on Feb. 20 , 1990 [ see p. 37415 ] . |
| 28 | Gross domestic product ( GDP ) , which was targeted to expand by 5.8 per cent in the fiscal year ending in June 1990 , slowed to around 4.6 per cent because of poor industrial and agricultural production . |
| 29 | On Dec. 19 , 1990 , Richardson presented a mini-budget which contained cuts in government spending on health , education , housing , defence and home loan subsidies to a total value of NZ$601 million in the current fiscal year , and NZ$2,370 million in the fiscal year ending June 1992 . |
| 30 | Of this , SDR109,300,000 ( about US$153,000,000 ) was in support of Pakistan 's third annual arrangement under the IMF 's structural adjustment facility ( SAF ) , while SDR122,400,000 ( about US$172,000,000 ) was available under the compensatory and contingency financing facility to cover the higher cost of oil imports in the fiscal year ending June 1991 . |