Example sentences of "1990 [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990 alone the deficit with the EEC was £13,000 million ( some £30 million per day ) ; with the rest of the world Britain 's surplus in 1990 was £2,000 million . |
| 2 | Exports to western countries increased from US$ 6.1 billion to nearly US$7.3 billion ; the number of joint ventures from 1972 to 1989 was ( in round figures ) 1,000 , whereas in 1990 alone the number of new joint ventures reached 4,000 perhaps with the help of a revival of commercial law the ‘ tortuous and costly road of socialism which leads from capitalism to capitalism ’ is made smoother and swifter . |
| 3 | Between 1985 and 1990 alone the sculpture index climbed 270% . |
| 4 | National Democratic Congress ( NDC , centrist , Nicholas Brathwaite l. ) formed a government in March 1990 following an offer of support from Ben Jones , the leader of The National Party ( TNP ) . |
| 5 | Plans for the so-called " three gorges dam " on the Yangtze river were reportedly resurrected in August 1990 over a year after they had been shelved by the Chinese government [ see also p. 37003 ] . |
| 6 | Things had come to a head in 1990 when a release extenxded a shut-down by several days at a cost of £250,000. a CAT , involving a wide cross-section of disciplines , was set up and reviewed incidents from 1987 onwards . |
| 7 | Gates had been under pressure to retire since early 1990 when a group of his officers were filmed beating a black motorist Rodney King . |
| 8 | And Mr Samson had a lucky escape in 1990 when a van ploughed into the side of his car . |
| 9 | The team heads remained in telephone contact , but hopes of agreement had faded by the end of January 1990 when the North called off all dialogue until the annual Team Spirit military exercises were concluded . |
| 10 | Belau 's economy , already adversely affected by debts arising from the Aimeluk power station constructed in the early 1980s and from a delay in US aid consequent upon the compact impasse , suffered a further setback in late 1990 when the territory was severely damaged by Typhoon " Mike " . |
| 11 | Even in 1990 when the recession had started to bite deeply 46 per cent of employers in a major survey carried out by the Training Agency reported recruiting difficulties ( Guardian 14 September 1990 ) . |
| 12 | The White Paper was launched in September 1990 when the Secretary of State for the Environment was my right hon. Friend the Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) . |
| 13 | Overall , six executive directors were paid almost £7.4m between them , including £1.8m in share options , compared with £7.8m ( £946,000 in options ) in 1990 when the board was bigger . |
| 14 | Bartholomew was the most senior US official to visit Pakistan since October 1990 when the US Congress suspended economic and military assistance to Pakistan after it could not certify that Pakistan had no nuclear weapons programme . |
| 15 | The largest privatization to date was completed in October 1990 when the Nonoc Mining and Industrial Corporation , a nickel refinery complex in the south of the country , was sold to the Philippine Nickel Corporation ( Philnico ) for $325 million to be paid over six years . |
| 16 | That was certainly the case in 1990 when the Chancellor announced the introduction of TESSAs — Tax Exempt Special Savings Accounts . |
| 17 | Jagmohan had been appointed to the post in January 1990 when the state was first placed under Governor 's rule [ see p. 37183-84 ] . |
| 18 | This was especially apparent in 1990 when the Trust recruited its two millionth member in August , and received an overwhelming response to the Enterprise Neptune Appeal for the purchase of coastline in Wales , Cornwall , Northumberland and County Durham . |
| 19 | The group fell apart in the spring of 1990 when the Balts began to stay away from the ‘ foreign ’ Soviet parliament , while Russia 's democrats squabbled among themselves . |
| 20 | Brazil 's component exports increased rapidly in the late 1980s , only to fall sharply as buyers shifted their purchases to other developing countries in 1990 when the Cruzado became overvalued ( Karmokolias , 1990 ) . |
| 21 | The original 33-month trial ended in January 1990 when the jury returned verdicts of not guilty on 52 counts of sexual molestation , but was unable to reach a conclusion on a further 13 counts . |
| 22 | Her liaison with Wyatt continued apace until late in 1990 when the Duchess finally came under official pressure to cool it . |
| 23 | Water supplies to Bristol were threatened in 1990 when the Gloucester Sharpness canal sprang a leak and temporary pipelines had to installed . |
| 24 | After a long campaign to set the record straight , including an investigation by a House of Lords committee , Salter was eventually vindicated in 1990 when the Department of Energy agreed to adjust the figures in its official literature . |
| 25 | Investigations had been halted since December 1990 when the Delhi High Court found irregularities in the preliminary charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) . |
| 26 | Old Foresters , a team of former Public Schoolboys , won three years running from 1885 to 87 and Ilford repeated the act between 1988 and 1990 when the manager had no more than a large village to select his players from . |
| 27 | The market received added impetus on 11 January 1990 when the Bank made two further moves : the maximum maturity of paper was extended to five years ( it was previously one year ) , with paper of a maturity between one and five years designated " medium-term notes " ( MTNs ) ; and issues could be in any currency , not just sterling . |