Example sentences of "in 1990 [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 2 | After a fire in the 1960s the pub was sympathetically restored ; however , in 1990 it was proposed to remove the central bar , which divides the Saloon and Public bars . |
| 3 | The circulation continues to climb : in 1990 it was up to 1.1m on weekdays and 1.7m on Sundays . |
| 4 | In 1948 the exemption was set at $600 a person ; in 1990 it was $2,050 . |
| 5 | The deficit is now particularly high with Germany : in 1990 it was £6.7 billion , that is three times higher than with any other country . |
| 6 | In 1990 it was estimated that in the United Kingdom there were 318000 people in residential homes , including 126000 in nursing homes . |
| 7 | As the hon. Gentleman must know perfectly well from the railway safety report , published only last week , the total number of significant collisions in 1989 was 85 , and in 1990 it was 59 . |
| 8 | The Soviet Union was South Korea 's second-largest communist trading partner ( after China ) ; in 1989 bilateral trade between the two countries amounted to US$599 million , and in 1990 it was expected to exceed $1,000 million . |
| 9 | In 1990 it was being used to measure the presence of minute underwater bubbles which can detect the presence of submarines , and it has also been applied to study polymer fibre patterns in research on materials for plastic moulds . |
| 10 | Gorbachev was Man of the Year for Time magazine in 1987 and for Der Spiegel in 1988 ; in 1989 he was ‘ statesman of the decade ’ for independent television in Britain ; in 1990 he was Man of the Year in France and received the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 11 | In 1990 he was so impressed by the Belfast reception that he came back just three weeks later to do it all again . |
| 12 | In 1990 he was appointed to the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia . |
| 13 | In 1990 he was given a commission by British Rail to mark the introduction of their electrified 225 East Coast Inter-City service . |