Example sentences of "earlier [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Earlier that year it had been uneasily digesting the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev 's secret speech denouncing the excesses of the Stalin era . |
2 | Earlier that year he had met a merchant from London who had money to spare and was looking for a likely speculation and Harry , being in the right place at the right time for once , had sold him the idea of investing in a privateering cruise to the Americas . |
3 | Earlier this year they threw a party and got their mates round to sample the goods . |
4 | Earlier this year they released their awesome debut single ‘ This Accurate Pain ’ through Chocolate Narcotic ( a friend 's label ) and distributed it , largely , themselves . |
5 | Earlier this year they broke new ground by ‘ rehearsing ’ improvised material in front of small audiences at intimate venues across the land . |
6 | And earlier this year we gave $10,000 to Franklin Furnace to show our support for their programme . |
7 | Earlier this year we began to meet with three other West Belfast groups with the view of jointly organising a conference on these issues . |
8 | Earlier this year we had a visitor from the Jewish National Fund who told us how badly they need men — and women , too -in Eretz , as well as money . |
9 | Earlier this year we won an award in Bourdeux and we 've had a lot of interest . |
10 | Earlier this year it spent $1bn ( £620m ) on ordering 300,000 personal computers from West Germany . |
11 | Earlier this year it was forced to restate its 1987 profits from £1.2m to £410,000 after an investigation by Ernst & Young discovered errors in the valuations of contracts at Sharp 's main business in Bradford . |
12 | Earlier this year it acquired the sales training agency Sales Booster International for £9.3m . |
13 | Earlier this year it was reported that Miss Steel 's books had sold ‘ more than 100 million ’ . |
14 | Earlier this year it announced a 100 million dollar expansion of its factory in Scotland . |
15 | Earlier this year it was announced that the block contained an oilfield with recoverable reserves of 250 million to 500 million barrels of oil , putting it in the so-called ‘ elephant field ’ category and the largest oil find off the British coast for five years . |
16 | Earlier this year I led a party of Americans on a walking tour in the Scottish Highlands . |
17 | Earlier this year I received another carefully written letter from my correspondent . |
18 | Earlier this year I reported in this column the Institute 's decision to terminate its contract with the Institute of Purchasing and Supply and to form its own Secretariat . |
19 | Earlier this year she offered her endorsement to Ross Perot in his bid for the US Presidency , sending him $1,000 ( £600 ) . |
20 | Earlier this year she was given the all clear and joined Dreamflight as a helper . |
21 | Earlier this year she persuaded a judge to let her stay with her boyfriend 's family because she did not get on with her father , who had recently been reconciled with his wife . |
22 | Actress Maureen Lipman , who played a Jewish mother in the long-running series of ads , said earlier this year she no longer wanted to play Beattie . |
23 | When she came back to Britain earlier this year she was admitted semi-conscious to hospital , suffering from malnourishment and signs of physical abuse . |
24 | But earlier this year she told him she wanted a divorce . |
25 | Earlier this year she won an award for an outstanding contribution to theatre writing.Her husband Jeremy has paid a moving tribute to his wife , in a statement he said , She was to quote Wordsworth , ’ My heart 's best treasure ’ |
26 | But earlier this year she told him she wanted a divorce and flew back to Britain with her children , three year old Shaun and one year old Ashley . |
27 | Earlier this year she travelled with fellow group member Peter Willis , a weaver , to Guatemala on an Oxfam project . |
28 | There were some indifferent performances against indifferent opponents until in Atlantic City earlier this year he floored and outpointed Iran Barkley to win the World Boxing Council middleweight title , a surprise which opened the door to tonight 's affair . |
29 | Almost pathologically resistant to remaining stationary , Normski has been keeping up his photography career , and earlier this year he staged an exhibition of his rap photos , appropriately at the Covent Garden clothes store RAP ( since closed ) . |
30 | Roy , 56 , who has played Alec in over 500 episodes , said earlier this year he was returning to his first love , the theatre . |