Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] the [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year . |
| 2 | I have enjoyed reading all your letters and look forward to continuing the two-way communication that has developed over the past year . |
| 3 | Trade with the Soviet Union has collapsed since the new year , when hard currency replaced the rouble as the main medium of transaction . |
| 4 | CHEMICALS group Courtaulds has come through the past year with a 3pc profits rise but is far from confident market conditions will be any easier in 1993 . |
| 5 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 6 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 7 | Despite the law , the company has grown over the last year . |
| 8 | The number of parents sending their children to private schools has risen for the eighth year running , despite a downturn in the economy and an upturn in school fees , the Independent Schools Information Service revealed . |
| 9 | Drawing on a database covering nine million workers , the study finds that the number of pay freezes has risen in the past year from one in 35 settlements to more than one in 20 . |
| 10 | The number of latinos has tripled in the past year . |
| 11 | The independent body set up to hear appeals against exam results said last night the number of complaints has tripled in the past year . |
| 12 | Having considered the potential benefits of offering discounts for full payment of Council Tax the Council has decided for the first year that it is not beneficial and that therefore no discounts will be offered for full payment . |
| 13 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 14 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 15 | Besides , such a prolific writer could hardly be ignored and his popularity moved through many decades by its own momentum , rather as Enid Blyton 's has done in the middle years of the present century . |
| 16 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the excellent report of Lancaster health authority , a copy of which I sent him , showing the immense progress that it has made during the past year — all within its budget ? |
| 17 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 18 | We will continue to work strenuously for a political agreement which is acceptable to all the parties involved in the talks which the Secretary of State has had during the past year with the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland the Government of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 19 | The Hackney shows are the fifth year in succession that the Bard of Barking has sung in the New Year . |
| 20 | Simultaneously with the preparation of the new housing benefit scheme , the Government began operating a policy of significantly increasing the level of council house rents , and a threefold increase has occurred in the nine years since 1979 ( House of Commons Library Note , 19 July 1988 ) . |
| 21 | Indeed it may be a symbolic irony that the implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act has occurred in the European Year of Older People . |
| 22 | Yet opinion in Germany has shifted over the past year . |
| 23 | It ought to be possible to tell within the next few weeks whether the measures the government has introduced over the past year are delivering the hoped-for results . |
| 24 | that it has reduced over the last year at Thornhill and I do know that we have agreed in our budget for this coming year to put in closed circuit television at all four Park and Ride car parks , which presumably will reduce it at the others as well . |
| 25 | A survey has shown that pocket money has increased in the past year by almost double the rate of inflation . |
| 26 | As part of our continuing review of quality systems , we are completing an evaluation of the way the new system has worked in the first year . |
| 27 | If the right hon. Gentleman examines completely what has happened during the past year with that objective in mind , he will find that not only have we cut inflation , as I have just said , but we have cut interest rates . |
| 28 | He is a most welcome supporter of the Bill It would be helpful if I brought the House up to date on what has happened during the past year , so that hon. Members can take recent developments into account when making up their minds if and when they vote later . |
| 29 | What has happened in the current year is we 've started from no involvement with this particular group of clients , and building up where by the end of the year , our best estimate we 're approaching six hundred clients so then we have a commitment of providing either residential care or some care package which keeps them out of residential care . |
| 30 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |