Example sentences of "the [num ord] year " in BNC.

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1 This was the 316th year of the society , but events such as wars with Napoleon , ‘ Kaiser Bill ’ and Hitler have occasionally prevented it from taking place .
2 The term for start-year payments at 0 per cent interest rate is only 14 , as the 15th payment is made on day 1 of the 15th year .
3 Part of the reliquary consisted of a gold inscription plaque which referred to the fourteenth year of a particular Gadhara king , enabling the experts to date it precisely .
4 It has usually occurred by the fourteenth year but the age may vary very considerably from woman to woman and with bodily circumstance .
5 If , for example , the landlord has the right to break at the expiry of the twelfth year of the term , rather than at the expiry of the fourteenth year of the term , the tenant 's right to compensation on quitting may be halved .
6 Next year every member — new or renewing — will receive a ‘ free gift ’ to mark the 35th year of the Medau Society .
7 The girl or parents who worry because menstruation has not occurred by the sixteenth year are usually troubling themselves unduly ; the boy who troubles himself as to the length of his penis or the girl who worries about mammary development are also worrying unnecessarily as a rule .
8 The family seems to have died out about the 31st year of Edward III .
9 She was a pupil in the 1st year Juniors at St Peter 's School , Lytham .
10 It was felt that this approach could best be tried out initially in the 1st year undergraduate programme , where a communicatively-based syllabus would give a much-needed new direction to the largely remedial teaching task that lecturers face .
11 An anniversary of a different sort is also being celebrated this month in Manhattan : the thirty-fifth year of Jasper Johns 's association with Leo Castelli , his first and longtime dealer .
12 The second year .
13 The second year you realise that it 's terribly , terribly hard .
14 October plantings make small plants which do not crop well until the second year .
15 This is the second year in a row that the Opposition leader has claimed to be too busy to talk to the boisterous crew .
16 Unions would accept a two-year deal provided there was an ‘ inflation plus ’ element in the second year .
17 It is not available in the first year of the policy and in the second year only £250 — about two hours ' worth for a top London matrimonial lawyer -will be met for each party .
18 FRANKE SLOOTHAAK 'S fortunes changed abruptly when he won the Everest Grand Prix , the closing contest of The Horse of the Year Show at Wembley , for the second year in succession .
19 The company has signalled its keenness to sign another two-year deal , and unions have indicated they might be prepared to accede , as long as there is an ‘ inflation-plus ’ element in the second year .
20 That will cost the Treasury £400m in the second year of the poll tax , £200m in the third , and £85m in the fourth .
21 FORBES , the American business magazine has published its table of top-earning show-business stars , which reveals that , for the second year running , Michael Jackson is the world 's highest-paid entertainer .
22 MASSIMO BIASION , of Italy , driving a works Lancia , yesterday squeezed past his team-mate , Alessandro Fiorio , to win the San Remo Rally and lift the world title for the second year running .
23 For the second year running Diss & District Branch have been awarded the Frank Larner Trophy for efficiency and a Wings Appeal £1,000 break award .
24 When asked to explain this the boy remarked ‘ my father called me an ear'ole [ a ‘ crawler ’ or conformist ] once , in the second year , for playing football and coming to school ’ .
25 In the second year of the war , he was asked to deliver some lectures at Bangor — the University College , North Wales — and he chose as his theme Milton 's Paradise Lost .
26 OST students do n't wake up till they are half way through the second year , ’ said Paul Davies with the weary air of a man staring post-graduation penury in the face .
27 The slump in insurance rates in the shipping and aviation market has hit the financial results of Lloyd 's underwriting group , A J Archer , for the second year running .
28 The slump in insurance rates in the shipping and aviation market has hit the financial results of Lloyd 's underwriting group , A J Archer , for the second year running .
29 At the end of the second year there is a stiff examination that knocks out about a quarter of the students .
30 Get to the second year and you get £30 .
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