Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first eight months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last December the government attempted to boost the housing market by scrapping stamp duty from most house purchases for the first eight months of this year . |
| 2 | This took western European visits for the first eight months of this year to 4.82m , another record . |
| 3 | Neste posted a 76 per cent fall in pre-tax profits to FIM 399.2m ( £1 = FIM7.07 ) during the first eight months of 1991 , compared to the same period in 1990 . |
| 4 | The Gulf crisis had an immediate negative effect on the economy , reversing the strong growth of the first eight months in all sectors , denting local business confidence , causing the cancellation of large-scale development projects and provoking the flight abroad of capital estimated at 20 per cent of all bank deposits . |
| 5 | One sample in seven contained residues in 1986 and the level had fallen to one sample in 20 in the first eight months of this year . |
| 6 | He revealed that more than 100 people were hurt in 81 accidents in his county in the first eight months of this year . |
| 7 | Pons was chairman of the chemistry department , and , as noted earlier , his name appeared as co-author on over 30 papers in the first eight months of 1988 alone . |
| 8 | At least 79 people died in police custody in South Africa in the first eight months of 1992 . |
| 9 | Amnesty had recorded 45 death-squad murders in the first eight months of 1990 , compared with 40 for the whole of 1989 , and said that killings , torture and disappearances were continuing despite the human rights agreement signed by the government and the FMLN on July 26 [ see p. 37707 ] . |
| 10 | Iraq had accused the UAE , along with Kuwait , of undermining international oil prices by exceeding its agreed OPEC quota of 1,100,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , producing an average of 1,800,000 bpd in the first eight months of the year [ see p. 37631 ] . |
| 11 | A total of 57,300 million roubles had been issued by the State Bank in the first eight months of 1991 . |
| 12 | In addition intelligence figures showed that four people had been killed and 169 injured in attacks on foreigners by neo-Nazis and other right-wing elements in the first eight months of 1991 . |
| 13 | On Oct. 15 five leading banks reported cumulative losses of FM6,900 million ( US$1,490 million ) in the first eight months of 1992 . |
| 14 | A total of 1,200 African migrants had been arrested by the Civil Guard at Algeciras in the first eight months of 1992 . |
| 15 | In the first eight months of the year they were 36pc above the same period in 1992 . |
| 16 | Fifty two people died in traffic accidents in the first eight months of this year on the roads of Merseyside . |