Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | O'Toole is the Oscars ' all-time loser with seven nominations and no wins — Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) , Becket ( 1964 ) , The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ) , Goodbye , Mr Chips ( 1969 ) , The Ruling Class ( 1972 ) , The Stunt Man ( 1980 ) and My Favourite Year ( 1982 ) . |
| 2 | I was the only Arsenal supporter in my entire year at school . |
| 3 | ‘ my heroic year ’ |
| 4 | The opportunity to discuss problems with members of other district societies was a great assistance to me in leading the various debates of the Southern Society during my presidential year and would certainly not have arisen without the opportunity to travel . |
| 5 | Since the start of my Presidential year , Doreen and I have been ‘ out and about ’ at various divisional meetings and dinner dances , and would like to take this opportunity of saying a big ‘ thank you ’ for the kindness and hospitality we have enjoyed during our travels . |
| 6 | Also to my father-in-law , for his invaluable support , guidance and help and who I know will be with me every step of the way during my Presidential Year . |
| 7 | 1962 was to be my big year ; Pop had me weight training three times a week , my statistics were now 40-24-36 and I was in the final of the Mecca ‘ Miss England ’ Contest . |
| 8 | In my final year the same group decided to have a little flutter on the Derby . |
| 9 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 10 | I expect Sinbad feels that as I 'm in the last few months of my final year , she 'd better pack me with as much experience as possible before I get whisked away to act staff nurse in some ward . |
| 11 | I was n't in my final year but the boy who took me was . |
| 12 | ‘ I went to a series of lectures on the history of art which he gave in Exeter where I was in my final year reading English . |
| 13 | Well this year has been a placement year in the middle of my Computer Studies Degree so I 'm returning to Derby Uni at the end of September for my final year . |
| 14 | erm so I mean what I did with my final year project was actually try to write something which was very sort of wide ranging and broad which sort of was like a first dr draft of an introduction and then once I got more data |
| 15 | My New Year 's resolutions have all been hopelessly abandoned , so I 've decided to make up some new ones for the 1991 Tour : |
| 16 | My New Year resolution is to make the postman 's lot a more fulfilling one by reading press releases . |
| 17 | I 've forgotten my new year 's resolution which is to use christian names . |
| 18 | Never forget my New Year 's Eve ! |
| 19 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 20 | I opened my competitive year at Cosford as usual , with the Indoor Championships . |
| 21 | NEC Corp 's Wood Dale , Illinois-based NEC Technologies Inc expects once again to double its sales in 1993 by focusing on its CD-ROM business : the company says it experienced ‘ explosive sales ’ of CD-ROM products in its fiscal year 1992 to March 31 — its Advanced Media Group , which markets MultiSpin CD-ROM readers , reported revenues of over , $75m , an increase of 135% . |
| 22 | ‘ We had hoped that the end of the year — 1992 — which is the first part of our financial year ( CGI ends its fiscal year on August 31 ) , would signal a recovery , but although the first two months — September and October — improved on the year before , they were followed by November and December , which were less and less good , ’ said Robert Mallet , president-director general of the group . |
| 23 | Milpitas-based Adaptec Inc is making hay with its disk controllers from the boom in personal computer sales generated by the price war , and says it expects to report net profit of about $50m , 1.90 per share for its fiscal year to March 31 1993 , on sales more than double last year 's $150.3m . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Despite a slump in the company 's margins , Bear Stearns & Co. raised its investment rating of Apple Computer Inc to ‘ strong buy ’ from ‘ buy ’ following the company 's fiscal second-quarter earnings report — figures , page five : analyst Andy Neff says he made the change because concern about Apple 's results was overdone ; commenting on the figures , Apple says it expects to resume growth — in earnings , revenue , unit sales , and market share — in the second half of its fiscal year , saying that the fall in profit was down to pricing pressures , the costs of new product launches , and a constraint in supplies needed for manufacturing , the latter two drains being short-term ; he noted that despite supply constraints , second quarter unit growth was up over 70% in its Powerbook notebook computers , while total Macintosh unit growth was up over 385 ; the European market continues to be slow , but sales in Japan are leading the way for continued growth of the Apple Pacific business unit ; gross margin was 38.5% of net sales in the second quarter of fiscal 1993 , down from 44.0% a year ago . |
| 26 | Distributor and manufacturer of electronic components and equipment , Farnell Electronics Plc , has reaped the rewards of overseas expansion for its fiscal year to January 31 . |
| 27 | Although the period from Christmas to the end of February — MMT 's accounting period for the first six months of its fiscal year ends then — was very quiet because a lot of orders were completed around that time , Haines says trading has now picked up again . |
| 28 | It figures the momentum of applications coming on-line will push it over the hump at the end of June , the end of its fiscal year . |
| 29 | Shooting , it says , to become a billion dollar company by the end of its fiscal year in June , Silicon Graphics Inc last week unveiled a raft of new hardware and software products which expand its current ranges upwards . |
| 30 | Shooting , it says , to become a billion dollar company by the end of its fiscal year in June , Silicon Graphics Inc last week unveiled a raft of new hardware and software products which expand its current ranges upwards . |