Example sentences of "[prep] 1990 [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | Lagging in the opinion-poll ratings in the early months of 1990 they seized upon the Anti-Poll Tax campaign as a means of once more attacking the Labour Party . |
2 | In 1986 banks had 20% of the market , and by the beginning of 1990 they had 50% of the market . |
3 | In the spring of 1990 they financed to an ultimate cost of $153.1 million the purchase of the Pierre Matisse inventory with dealers Acquavella Modern Art . |
4 | Even in the ‘ poll-tax ’ dominated months of 1990 we did not quite reach that point . |
5 | In the Spring of 1990 we decided to take the plunge and build our own fixed-wing microlight-under the guidance/regulation of the Popular Flying Association and with help from the MW builders club . |
6 | Since the autumn of 1990 she had served on the board where she co-ordinated the work of Treuhand 's 15 regional offices . |
7 | In France , for example , the domestic CP market was launched at around the same time , but by the end of 1990 it had grown in size to FF165 billion , around four times the size of the UK market ( see Table 6.10 for a comparison of commercial paper markets in Europe , the ECP market and the US CP market ) . |
8 | But in the same period of 1990 it bought only 2m tonnes . |
9 | By the end of 1990 it stood at 121 per cent , and the aim of reducing this to less than 70 per cent in 1991 appeared to be succeeding as the inflation rate for the first five months of the year was 38.9 per cent , compared with 84.5 per cent in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
10 | I like boxing and when I was suspended in the summer of 1990 I took up boxing and accepted , perhaps too quickly , a fight against the then French light-heavyweight champion . |
11 | In 1990 we sent a questionnaire to the heads of the 49 maternity units that participated in the voluntary registration system in 1989 . |
12 | In 1990 we carried out a limited survey of 50 Asian elders attending a day centre based in inner city Leicester . |
13 | Early in 1990 we developed and piloted a referral form , which was used to collect data in the preparatory year by all practices in the Oxford Regional Health Authority that had expressed an interest in fundholding . |
14 | In 1990 we found our first chiff-chaff on the count of March 11 and in 1989 , two early sand-martins and a solitary wheatear on March 12 . |
15 | In 1990 we heralded the dawning of a New Europe — in 1992 we can advance as true Europeans , looking forward especially to a closer partnership with our friends in Dieppe , Rouen and Lille . |
16 | In 1990 we held a benefit which raised DM 200,000 for the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden , whose director , Werner Schmidt , had over the years collected art that was forbidden in the former DDR . |
17 | The main reason was the trend of increasing interest rates — in 1990 they reached an eight-year high — together with the lower tax yields associated with slower economic growth . |
18 | In the face of recessionary gloom , Potton 's have just had their two most successful years ; in 1990 they sold 250 units , but those who built that year made the original commitment — such as finding land and seeking planning permission — several years earlier . |
19 | In 1990 they took the opportunity to rebuild them as well as allocating extra money to services such as education in the wake of legislative changes . |
20 | In 1990 they stood at £16bn , completely dwarfing those of vegetarian products , however loosely defined . |
21 | In 1990 they won 7% , near enough the threshold to ring alarms . |
22 | In 1990 she won a illustration award and commission from Faber-Castell , illustrated in this article . |
23 | In 1990 it took a major step forward with The Guinness Encyclopedia — a family reference book for the nineties . |
24 | But for a time in 1990 it seemed likely to split apart . |
25 | Does he also agree that there has been a noticeable change of opinion in the business community , in that in 1990 it thought that we could go into the exchange rate mechanism without any disadvantage whereas it is now beginning to realise that the ERM obliges us to have a higher exchange rate and higher real interest rates than are appropriate for domestic needs ? |
26 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |
27 | On Aug. 9 the firm admitted that on several occasions in 1990 it had manipulated auctions of US securities by bidding for more than 35 per cent of the securities on offer , thereby exceeding the government 's ceiling on acquisitions by primary dealers . |
28 | At the legislative elections in 1990 it had advocated a strongly right-wing economic programme . |
29 | In 1990 it came of age , in 1991 it carried on where it left off with a superb Easter opening at a cold and windy Donington Park , England … |
30 | But in 1990 it started to unravel . |