Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] [num ord] year 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the main reason for a 37% profits rise to £2.32m was a Pounds 440,000 turnround in interest payments to £105,000 interest receivable , thanks to cash from last year 's £3m rights issue . |
| 2 | The win takes Scotland above Portugal and into joint second place with Italy in the battle to qualify for next year 's finals in the US . |
| 3 | Rumours abound of a further scandal in the financial sector to add to last year 's rich crop , which forced the resignation of the heads of Nomura , Japan 's biggest investment company , and Nikko , among many others . |
| 4 | Guildford Kings star Gordon , who top scored with 17 points , put his country back on course to qualify for next year 's tournament finals in Germany , when all hope had seemed lost with less than five minutes remaining . |
| 5 | It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years . |
| 6 | DOUBLE Olympic figure skating champion Katarina Witt was reinstated as an amateur yesterday and given the go-ahead to compete in next year 's Winter Olympics . |
| 7 | The rush for tickets was sparked by Sunday 's goalless draw between the US and El Salvador which left Trinidad needing only to draw against the Americans in the National Stadium to qualify for next year 's finals . |
| 8 | The studio said : ‘ The new release date will put the film in an ideal position to compete for next year 's Oscars . ’ |
| 9 | Still to come , Conservatives on Oxfordshire County Council say there wo n't need to be cuts in services to stay within next year 's Government budget estimate . |
| 10 | Bath will meet Waterloo without England No 8 Ben Clarke and fly-half Stuart Barnes , whose drop goal in the dying seconds of extra-time doomed Harlequins to defeat in last year 's epic final . |
| 11 | The report anticipates sales of organic produce to rise from last year 's £900 million to £2.7 billion by 1995 . |