Example sentences of "in a given year " in BNC.

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1 The data can be revealing : one technique which has been used by HMI is to follow two classes in a given year group : the one with the highest attendance and the one with the lowest .
2 These houses were allocated a month each in a given year .
3 If an almanac editor gets ten per cent of his predictions right in a given year , he counts it a success .
4 As an employee of the British Canoe Union and its Director from 1980 to 1987 , Ron was the driving force behind the staging of the first ever triple World Championships to be held in one country in a given year .
5 This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years .
6 In fact , however , the Council 's composition was not random , as two kinds of evidence show : evidence for the high social class of individual members , and evidence that it was possible to get on to the Council in a given year if you wanted to .
7 The final way of getting on to the Council in a given year was by being an ypilachó0n or stand-in , and that may explain some instances of ‘ carpet-baggers ’ , i.e. political adventurers who offered themselves as Councillors for demes other than their home deme .
8 First they were based on an ‘ Age Participation Rate ’ ( APR ) defined as ‘ the number of young home initial full time and sandwich entrants to HE in a given year expressed as a percentage of the 18 year old population ’ .
9 For example , the real spending of a department or service might be the same under whatever system of accounting is adopted but in a given year , using cash accounting , the cash payments could be postponed by as little as 24 hours so that the accounts record a lower figure .
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