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

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1 The plan has emerged from a comprehensive study undertaken over the last year , covering such aspects as geology , archaeology , nature conservation , recreation , education , traffic and landscape .
2 Because of the way in which this relief is given , the managers would wish to " front load " the losses sustained into the first year of trading , which they may be able to achieve by incurring expenditure for which capital allowances are available .
3 In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year .
4 Hinde House was one of ten comprehensive schools approached in the first year with a view to the launching of a school/industry partnership .
5 Although together they made up only 8% of referrals in the year before the guidelines the reduction in barium investigation and excretion urography contributed 25% of the savings achieved in the second year .
6 Given that this calculation mainly consists of system savings foregone in the first year of Sizewell 's operation , less capital charges saved , the £60 million figure seems surprisingly high , given the limited value of system savings in the first year of operation .
7 In deciding which combinations to take after the first year of study , applicants should be aware of the entry requirements for both subjects .
8 For example , the purchaser may consider that only 60 per cent of customer contracts expiring in the first year will be renewed , whereas the vendor believes 90 per cent to be a more likely renewal rate .
9 The three-year period , for example , between the death of Eorpwald and the accession of Sigeberht , could signify that Sigeberht succeeded in the third year after Eorpwald 's assassination .
10 Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults .
11 Erm the actual percentage of the ingredients used over the first year erm is about five percent for water , twenty three point six percent for the bottle , I 'll explain that later that 's quite high , the cap is four percent , one percent for the gassing , erm one percent for the case , two point seven percent for labour , four percent for transport , a general overhead would be about seventeen point one percent .
12 However , further pit closures are inevitable in the productivity battle , because the 65 million tonnes agreed for the last year of the contract is likely to shrink to fewer than 50 million , at best .
13 It has seen the consolidation of work commenced in the first year ; the forging ahead of ‘ key ’ enterprise activities university wide and the ‘ piloting ’ of a number of innovative projects .
14 The first-year course is designed to take students from scratch to a level at which they can cope with simple Sanskrit texts ( the two texts studied in the first year are the Pancatantra , an ancient collection of humorous fables , and the Bhagavad Gita , the most revered of Hindu religious texts ) .
15 In Germany a child proceeds to the next year only when he has achieved a satisfactory standard in every subject of the curriculum .
16 I have reservations about Perlman and Mehta 's treatment of the Glazunov , though , which seems neither as richly romantic as Oscar Shumsky 's on Chandos , nor as glittering as Anne-Sophie Mutter 's on Erato : the other two versions to appear in the last year .
17 Because you can see if the client 's up to the age of forty , he gets a higher erm , a reduced allocation , but if he 's seventy , he gets actually forty percent allocated in the first year , and he gets er , a full allocation from then on .
18 " James Stavanger died in the last year of the war .
19 The costs incurred during the first year of oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation treatment were significantly greater than with endoscopic sclerotherapy ( £4369 v £1067 , p<0.0001 ) and the high rate of rebleeding in the surgical group meant that no cost savings occurred in subsequent years .
20 The BA pass degree consists of thirteen classes ( or their equivalent ) taken over three years — five classes taken in the first year and usually four in each of the following two years .
21 The overall increase in referral rates may seem disappointing to those who hoped that fundholding would provide a mechanism for reducing the demand for specialist care , but it was probably unrealistic to expect a shift to occur in the first year of the scheme .
22 Bohunt volunteered for the first year , which started last autumn .
23 A roman coin belonging to the fourth year of the reign of Diocletian , AD 287 , was found on an island in Finlaggan Loch and one wonders how it got there .
24 Despite these promises there was no significant improvement in Peru 's human rights record in the first year of the new government .
25 However , both Sir David Plastow , the Vickers chairman , and Peter Ward , the Rolls-Royce Motors chairman and chief executive , insist that the gloom has been overdone and that structural changes introduced in the last year have made the company leaner and more efficient .
26 THE CHILL of recession is expected to be felt in today 's year end figures announced by glass giants Pilkington , with a continuing down turn in profits expected to register around £35m halved for the third year running .
27 Fires associated with cultivation volatilize 300–700kg nitrogen per ha from vegetation and surface-litter and a further 500–2000 disappear from the surface soils in the next year or two .
28 Year II is spent in industrial training in a computing environment which allows students to apply the skills and knowledge gained in the first year of the course to real day-today situations and problems experienced by organizations using computer-based information systems .
29 Although he will take urgent steps to impose a new contract , which they have rejected , he has told the doctors ' and dentists ' pay review body that he is prepared to tackle any problems arising in the first year .
30 Opening Up The East Josephine Lanyon reports on the second year of East & South which has attracted an extraordinary number of women artists
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