Example sentences of "than [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The London conference in June 1990 agreed to tighten up the protocol and phase out production and consumption of CFCs by not later than the year 2000 . |
| 2 | The clock belonged to my grandfather , Isabel thought , it was made not later than the year 1850 by a craftsman , but such things are clearly no longer appreciated , nothing has value , it is all gimcracks and gewgaws . |
| 3 | Powell has never felt worse than the year after he won , when he fell on Stearsby . |
| 4 | Then they discussed the exchange rate : one of salt to five of grain , better than the year before . |
| 5 | In essence , a new unincorporated business will pay tax in the tax year in which its first accounting period ends ( rather than the year in which it commences trade under the present system ) , but will pay tax on at least a full year 's profit in the tax year in which it ceases to trade . |
| 6 | Five city banks actually lent less last year than the year before . |
| 7 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |
| 8 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |
| 9 | The level of attendances does , however , remain between 10% and 15% higher than the year before that . |
| 10 | But , bit by bit , Haringey found that in setting 1989-90 's rate , it had rather more than the year 's expenditure to cover . |
| 11 | Situations vacant in particular showed a very , a very big drop and erm , and in fact we , the yield was lower than the year before , but we 've er , continued with our pac press rationalization programme and er , I think as I mentioned at the interims , the Basildon Evening Echo is now printed on the F T's presses , which incidentally has got the contract to and is printing er , . |
| 12 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 13 | The working capital outflow was controlled and was only er , sixteen million more working capital , which is considerably better than the year before and then finally you had the er , improvement in the capital expenditure . |
| 14 | So er , and the Chief Executive there would er , I think commit suicide if he , if he brought in less profits than the year before . |
| 15 | Erm not , they did n't lose it , they went three hundred million less than the year before profit though , two hundred millio er bad debts |
| 16 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 17 | In less than a year I would reach retirement age and I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 18 | This belongs to the last days of 1870 , more than a year after the murder in the park . |
| 19 | Not much of a claim , more than a year after he started trying to turn the tide ; and one yet to be proven , anyway . |
| 20 | Peter Davenport , who joined Middlesbrough from Manchester United for £700,000 less than a year ago , may seek a move after being left out of the squad for Saturday 's game at Watford . |
| 21 | Less than a year later , Fuji seems more than willing to pay £100m for a minority share in the music arm which , with sales of £260m , represents much less than half of the Virgin empire . |
| 22 | As a result of that demoralising experience Biggs was inactive for more than a year , a cut eye then leading to a stoppage against Francesco Damiani , the Italian he defeated in the Olympic final . |
| 23 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |
| 24 | I find it astonishing that , in less than a year since proposals on these lines by Robert Jackson , the higher education minister , were leaked , the majority of university vice-chancellors should have moved to a position whereby they are actively pursuing the option of charging students the full cost of their courses . |
| 25 | But in less than a year Poland and Hungary had proved otherwise ‘ and now you have the strongest of the strong , the East Germans , jumping out like water from a bucket with a hole in it . |
| 26 | But it helped that the one Test forward was Paul Ackford who , still less than a year into his international career , is a phenomenon , consistently winning his own line-out ball , securing kick-offs and loose possession , and cover-tackling more in the manner of a flanker than a lock . |
| 27 | Excluding prices of food , drink and tobacco , regarded as a more reliable guide to the underlying trend , factory gate prices rose 0.5 per cent during September and were 5.5 per cent higher than a year earlier . |
| 28 | Although there was no confirmation last night , it was being widely assumed that the explosives were Semtex and the discovery part of a pattern of similar finds and explosions in an IRA mainland campaign that has continued for more than a year . |
| 29 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 30 | Stretch , making the first defence of a title he won more than a year ago when he out-pointed Gary Cooper , caught Wormald with a perfectly timed right hook to the chin . |