Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] year " in BNC.

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1 The plan has emerged from a comprehensive study undertaken over the last year , covering such aspects as geology , archaeology , nature conservation , recreation , education , traffic and landscape .
2 It has seen the consolidation of work commenced in the first year ; the forging ahead of ‘ key ’ enterprise activities university wide and the ‘ piloting ’ of a number of innovative projects .
3 In Germany a child proceeds to the next year only when he has achieved a satisfactory standard in every subject of the curriculum .
4 The overall increase in referral rates may seem disappointing to those who hoped that fundholding would provide a mechanism for reducing the demand for specialist care , but it was probably unrealistic to expect a shift to occur in the first year of the scheme .
5 A roman coin belonging to the fourth year of the reign of Diocletian , AD 287 , was found on an island in Finlaggan Loch and one wonders how it got there .
6 Fires associated with cultivation volatilize 300–700kg nitrogen per ha from vegetation and surface-litter and a further 500–2000 disappear from the surface soils in the next year or two .
7 Year II is spent in industrial training in a computing environment which allows students to apply the skills and knowledge gained in the first year of the course to real day-today situations and problems experienced by organizations using computer-based information systems .
8 If a home does not meet the minimum standard , the owner will be able to claim back all the money spent within the first year after purchase on raising it to that level , through , for example , home insulation , up to the amount of stamp duty they paid when they bought the property ( up to the maximum of £1000 ) .
9 The plan calls for a 17 percent reduction in timber felling over the next year , but avoids offering long tern protection to the owl or its habitat .
10 Er then to er put er against the background as the District Council last last week were being told our budget will cost us er to er accidents and of course what this exercise would cost us , three hundred and fifty thousand is the amount very close that some of you just want to spend on the doing traffic calming over the next year year .
11 Children enjoyed the VISTA visits according to the questionnaire returns in the third year ; they liked meeting scientists and learning about a range of jobs .
12 As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four .
13 As a significant number of people with a normal resting ejection fraction die within the first year following infarction , it has been suggested that a fall in ejection fraction on exercise may identify this group .
14 The director , however , stressed the need for constraint due to cuts in spending anticipated over the next year , and suggested that the governors select particular matters for prioritization .
15 Half the irritability and lack of moral control which spoil adult life originate in the first year of existence .
16 There were an awful lot of teething troubles in the first year or so , but it is working very well .
17 It must include one ‘ treble ’ ( a subject studied to the third year level — three courses ) and a ‘ double ’ ( studied to the second-year level — two courses ) , but otherwise the structure may be varied .
18 An Act of Parliament passed in the first year of his reign recited that great numbers of persons :
19 Van Marion expects sales of its Unix product line to fall over the next year or so .
20 The course is assessed by means of clinical and written examination at the end of the first year and by assessment of a thesis based upon a research project presented after the third year .
21 In the first year , right , there was not enough rain , right , in order to swell the tubers , right , presumably the same thing happened in the second year , but no , the reason why er , yields were very low in nineteen seventy four , was because there was too much rain .
22 SUNDERLAND Harrier David Clark scored a unique double yesterday when he won Durham City Nike Destiny Run for the second year running and became the first to break 20 minutes for the four-mile race .
23 Remove flower stems in the first year for a stronger bushier plant .
24 Success was rapid with 2,196 organized weeks of holiday taken in the first year of operation .
25 ( These were paid at a rate of 12p per mile with 100 per cent of the extra cost paid in the first year ; 75 per cent in the second ; 50 per cent in the third ; 25 per cent in the fourth and nothing thereafter . )
26 Individual farmers had come across difficult times and they needed to borrow to finance seed to plant for the next year 's crop .
27 We asked respondents whether they had been stopped ( on foot or in a vehicle ) or had their house searched in the last year , and whether they had been arrested in the last five years ( called here , ‘ stopped , etc . ’ )
28 On the brighter side , the operating margin improved for the second year running , and the operating loss was 44% less dreadful at $116m .
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