Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] the [num ord] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headteachers were allowed to move sums of money from one category to another ( virement ) and under/overspends were carried to the next year . |
| 2 | Both awards were won for the second year in succession . |
| 3 | In a study , again in Costa Rica , the vegetation biomass , nutrient content and species composition were measured during the first year after clear-cutting of plots , some of which were treated with commercial inorganic fertilizer ( 70kg N , 87.5kg P and 166kg K per hectare ) while others were planted with the pioneering Cecropia obtusifolia , as seedlings . |
| 4 | One and a half million new accounts were opened in the first year . |
| 5 | The view in this paper is that the sense of disillusionment many people were experiencing during the first year of the war resulted from an over-valuation of man 's nature , and an attempt to deny the reality of death for people one loved . |
| 6 | ATs and PS for maths and science were introduced in the second year of key stage 3 , and those for design and technology in the first year of key stages 1–3 . |
| 7 | A joint enterprise with the Co-operative Wholesale Society , such was the prestige of the WTA 's reputation and the skill of the promotional machine that 5,000 bookings were taken in the first year , at prices two-thirds those of Billy Butlin , who had opened his second camp at Clacton the previous year . |
| 8 | The 58th British Services International Alpine Ski Championships were held for the second year running in Megève . |