Example sentences of "its [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is the National Trust London Lecture Series which is now in its nineteenth year . |
| 2 | It is the first established specialist journal in this subject , and 1989 sees its eighty-first year . |
| 3 | The EF One Eleven has a good safety record — in its eleven year history this was the first crash in peacetime . |
| 4 | A major event of the illustrator 's diary is the annual images exhibition , now in its 17th year . |
| 5 | He described the event , now in its 17th year , as a ‘ slice of normality ’ . |
| 6 | His hundred , the ninth in a career which has now entered its 15th year , came off the last ball of the game after his captain , Graham Gooch , had delayed the final formality of a declaration . |
| 7 | Arab flat racing has entered its 15th year . |
| 8 | Arab flat racing has entered its 15th year . |
| 9 | As a result of the loss of its franchise to broadcast from 31 December 1992 , the independent television contractor has changed the basis of accounting in its half year results to 30 June 1992 from a going concern to a closure basis . |
| 10 | MTM ( speciality chemicals ) has had its half year statement to 30 June 1992 audited by Price Waterhouse . |
| 11 | Bowthorpe ( the electronic components and electrical equipment group ) includes in its half year statement to 30 June 1992 a report from auditors Ernst & Young . |
| 12 | The food retailer unveiled its half year results last Wednesday . |
| 13 | Its half year loss emerges at £51m and the figure could easily top £250m by the year-end . |
| 14 | British Gas has fired up its half year dividend to 6.4p per share compared with 6p last time . |
| 15 | In the mean time , the company says it will continue to invest in product development — research costs amounted to 8% of its half year turnover — and is looking to branch out into what it calls new ‘ product identification ’ technologies . |
| 16 | This articulated railcar was scrapped in 1959 but the passenger trailer was towed , on road wheels fitted in place of the bogie to Dunfanaghy where it commenced its 30 year career as a holiday home . |
| 17 | Applied Linguistics , now in its fourteenth year and recognized and respected world-wide for its contribution to the field , is an ideal source for this information . |
| 18 | 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% . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Hewlett-Packard Co vice president , Lew Platt , has confided to Wall Street analysts that the company will be introducing Snake workstations and upgrades run by its PA RISC 7100 chip , Thunderbird , by late summer and will start delivering them before its fiscal year closes in October . |
| 29 | Back in June ( UX No 387 ) , Hewlett-Packard Co was dropping large hints that it would be announcing and delivering new Snake workstations and upgrades based upon its next-generation PA RISC 7110 chip , Thunderbird , sometime before its fiscal year ends in October . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |