Example sentences of "its [adj] annual [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economically , because of its low annual rate of inflation — 2.9% — and good trade figures , the franc fort policy should succeed in resisting the currency speculators . |
| 2 | Edmonton recovered less than half its total annual costs from electricity sales last year , as you say . |
| 3 | The International Marketing Institute ( IMI ) at Boston College announces the dates for its 31st annual Marketing Management Program ( MMP ) entitled Marketing Management for Global Competitiveness . |
| 4 | Planning controls do not destroy land values ; in the words of the Uthwatt Committee , ‘ neither the total demand for development nor its average annual rate is materially affected , if at all , by planning ordinances ’ . |
| 5 | * BP Chemicals said its total emissions from major sites fell by 4,000 tonnes to 154,000 tonnes in 1992 when it published its second annual emissions report . |
| 6 | This emerged as the main point of its second annual progress report on environmental policy , following the publication of the 1990 White Paper , This Common Inheritance . |
| 7 | Computone lost $1.1m on sales of $22.7m the year ended April 3 , its second annual loss in a row . |
| 8 | The Meta Group is putting together its Second Annual Application Development Strategies Conference , set for September 14–16 at The Buttes in Phoenix , Arizona . |
| 9 | The French banking and financial group allocates three pages of its 1991 annual report and accounts to human resources . |
| 10 | In its 1991 annual report published on July 10 , the human rights organization Amnesty International claimed that human rights violations had occurred in 141 countries and had actually worsened in some cases . |
| 11 | Until 18 July , the Royal Scottish Academy is showing its 166th Annual Exhibition of painting , architecture and printmaking . |
| 12 | The Health and Safety Commission has published its 1990–91 annual report , highlighting the substantial cost of work-related accidents and ill health to industry , in addition to the employee 's pain and suffering . |
| 13 | In a report presented to its 43rd annual meeting [ see above ] , the International Whaling Commission 's scientific committee warned that dolphins , porpoises and other members of the 66 species of small cetaceans are facing extinction in parts of the world , as a result of both deliberate hunting and accidental killing by fishermen , especially those using long drift nets . |
| 14 | Over the same period growth in broad money slowed to 7.3% in Japan and to 11.1% in Britain — its smallest annual increase since the series began in 1982 . |
| 15 | The government plans to double coal production from its present annual total of 1 billion tonnes to 2 billion by the year 2020 . |
| 16 | The Australian tobacco industry has been on the very sick list for at least the past 16 years , with adult per capita consumption falling by about one third to its present annual level of 1827 grams . |
| 17 | Raybestos Manhattan described the NIOSH recommendations as ‘ so extreme as to be totally unrealistic and unpracticable ’ in its 1976 annual report , and suggested Raybestos Manhattan 's future strategic direction would be away from the use of asbestos in friction products : |
| 18 | In its 1992 Annual Report , the Bank for International Settlements , normally very reluctant to enter into any form of political controversy , said this : ‘ Whether a Monetary Union , which is essentially viewed as a stepping-stone to political union , should be presented as a necessary extension of the programme for completing the internal market in the Community seems questionable . ’ |
| 19 | The human rights organization Amnesty International in its 1992 annual report released on July 9 claimed that governments around the world had connived with security forces in permitting extrajudicial murder , abduction and torture . |
| 20 | The paper says Philips presented its plans to analysts only hours after the presentation of its 1992 annual results almost three weeks ago . |
| 21 | The partial ban has angered environmentalists and farm workers who have described it as a " cheap ploy " to allow Cheminova Agro to continue to produce 60 per cent of its current annual output of the pesticide . |
| 22 | In the third economic package in 1989 [ for January and May measures see p. 36778 ] , measures were adopted by the Cabinet on July 7 with the aim of cooling the economy by lowering inflation ( then running at an annual rate of 6 per cent ) , by restricting economic growth to 4.5 per cent ( from its current annual rate of 6 per cent ) , and by withdrawing more than 500,000 million ptas from circulation , and also to stop tax fraud . |
| 23 | The one area of basic science that the president passed over in his new budget was biomedical research , for which he recommended a mere token increase of $71 million atop its current annual fund of approximately $4000 million . |
| 24 | They met in Blackpool , Lancs , where the Eighth Army held its 50th annual reunion and Remembrance Day parade . |
| 25 | The Commission , in its Eighth Annual Report to the European Parliament on the Application of Community Law , announced the launching in 1990 of a programme of codification by the European Community publications Office in order to increase and facilitate the dissemination and transparency of Community law for all Community citizens . |
| 26 | The PTA held its eighth annual summit in Nairobi , the Kenyan capital , on Nov. 30-Dec. 1 , 1989 . |
| 27 | FANS of vintage road and rail transport over the ages will be descending on Somerset this weekend when the West Somerset Railway stages its sixth annual Steam Fayre and Vintage Vehicle Rally at Bishops Lydeard station . |
| 28 | NOT MANY preserved steam railways can boast two unique happenings in two days , but the West Somerset Railway did just that at its sixth annual Vintage Vehicle Rally and Steam Fayre over the weekend of August 1–2 . |
| 29 | It was the NAPSS which brought both Emily Faithfull and Bessie Rayner Parkes to Scotland for its fourth annual conference , held in Glasgow in October 1860 . |
| 30 | The organisation invited Iceland 's Foreign Minister to speak at its fourth annual conference , held in Colorado . |