Example sentences of "[subord] in earlier year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students in their final year will receive a lower rate of loan than in earlier years of the course . |
| 2 | Branding and voucher regulations were enforced much more consistently than in earlier years . |
| 3 | In 1955/6 budgets were generally overspent and by a larger margin than in earlier years . |
| 4 | ‘ We still have nearly 200 young people undergoing training on this site and although it continues to be less than in earlier years , because the business scene has changed , our overall commitment to training and development certainly has not . ’ |
| 5 | Table 3 , below , shows that although the limited duration of the present Call-slip analysis exercise meant that fewer issues were monitored in 1981 than in earlier years , the proportion of all issues which were in foreign languages remained remarkably constant , at around 4% . |
| 6 | Firms like ICI or Ford might , as in earlier years , have been able to build larger or more technically advanced sets for their own electricity supplies , but faced with the same shortages of steel and skilled men as the supply industry , they were now less inclined to branch out in this way , particularly as the BEA were selling electricity to them at prices based on historic costs , even though the new power stations were costing more . |