Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] year [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of preparation for the New Year Test series in the West Indies it is a bit like getting ready for an army assault course by taking the dog for a walk around the block . |
| 2 | Fellow stores groups also lost ground as dealers decided the euphoria about the New Year sales had been overdone . |
| 3 | The Bureau was established at the University of Warwick on 1 September 1983 with a contract for a four year period in the first instance . |
| 4 | As for the industry 's registered dock labour force , the Government made provision for a three year redundancy scheme , jointly financed by the Government and the employer of any dockers who were ‘ surplus to requirements ’ . |
| 5 | County councillors look set to take on the Government tomorrow , when they set a budget for the next year way above Whitehall limits . |
| 6 | Encouraged by the long minority of the new Stadtholder it helped to influence Dutch policy in a pro-French and anti-British direction during the Seven Years War ( the Orange family , now closely associated by marriage with that of Hanover , was generally pro-British in outlook ) . |
| 7 | The judges unanimously deemed Malta to be the winner for the second year running . |
| 8 | The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan has been sufficiently impressed with the results so far to finance the printing of enough copies for the first year pupils of three comprehensive schools beginning in September 1985 . |
| 9 | Family and friends have paid their last respects to rock climber Peter Bowron , who was swept to sea by a freak wave during a New Year rock-climbing holiday . |
| 10 | GROUP employees have scooped a prestigious national health and safety award for the 25th year running . |
| 11 | VAUXHALL has won a top towcar award for the third year running , scooping five of the seven trophies in the process . |
| 12 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
| 13 | DSM is currently providing scientific and financial support for a five year project concentrating mainly on the painting techniques of Rembrandt . |
| 14 | A team of researchers at Aberdeen University have received support for a three year study of Scottish soccer fan behaviour . |
| 15 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 16 | TODAY 'S Birthday Honours are the last before the do-it-yourself system comes into play for the New Year awards . |
| 17 | The examples are : " revising and improving the whole curriculum for a particular year group , taking account of the programmes of study and attainment targets of the National Curriculum ; developing a whole-school assessment policy , including marking and recording ; piloting a scheme for staff development and appraisal " ( DES 1989e:11 ) . |
| 18 | However one particular champion of the potato was Antoine-Augustin Parmentier a French chemist who was captured by the Germans during the Seven Years War and survived largely on a diet of potatoes . |
| 19 | For two years he taught at the University of Texas at Austin , and directed the Michener Collection there , before enlisting in the U.S. Naval Reserve for a four year stint . |
| 20 | Mr. Leonard Coote was elected President of the Association for a two year term at the Biennial Delegate Conference in succession to Mr. Andy Heffernan . |
| 21 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 22 | A DREAM of one day playing for Middlesbrough Football Club helped one of the team 's biggest fans through a four year prison ordeal . |
| 23 | The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme was set up to enable social scientists , who have obtained a doctorate , to work full-time on original and independent research for a three year period . |
| 24 | The Postdoctoral Research Fellowshop Scheme was set up to enable social scientists , who have obtained a doctorate , to work full-time on original and independent research for a three year period . |
| 25 | The payment to shareholders is being paid from reserves for the second year running , though earnings per share jumped from 3p to 12p . |
| 26 | Kit 's success would make Rebecca 's father rich , much richer than the family had ever been since the squandering of the fortune made in the service of the Earl of Warwick during the Hundred Years War . |
| 27 | P&O EUROPEAN FERRIES ( Portsmouth ) are acting as Principal Sponsor of the Chichester Festivities for the third year running . |
| 28 | ARSENAL boss George Graham reckons he has the best job in football — but he knows even he could suffer a Brian Clough-like backlash if the Gunners fail to win a trophy for the second year running . |
| 29 | Takenhall proved the annual star turn , winning the Quintin Gilbey Trophy for the third year running . |
| 30 | Oxford have now won 16 of the last 17 races , and have taken the Beefeater Gin Trophy for the sixth year running . |