Example sentences of "and in [art] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 .
2 Students follow a general course in their first year , and in the final year they select one of three specialist areas of study .
3 When Harold Smith , the brother of F.E. , was asked for advice in organization by Huddersfield Unionists , he delivered them a lecture on Liverpool methods , and in the following year they elected F.E. Smith as their President to carry through reforms that would make Huddersfield like Liverpool .
4 Later , and in recognition of her own achievements , Sophie Green was awarded a scholarship to attend a summer course at Bryn Mawr College , Pennsylvania in 1928 and in the following year she became a co-opted member of the Kettering Education Committee .
5 In 1697 she made a tour of the north and of Kent and in the following year she made her ‘ Great Journey to Newcastle and to Cornwall ’ .
6 In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career .
7 In 1805 he collected in the Faeroes and in the following year he was commissioned by the Danish government to collect in Greenland , where he passed eight summers and seven winters .
8 During this three-year period they applied two dressings of farmyard manure and in the intervening year they applied an indigenous legume crop as green manure .
9 Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is .
10 At Christmas she fell ill , and in the New Year she was worse .
11 That was something to cheer Christmas 1945 , but not quite enough and in the new year I was back again , once more taking the No. 2 bus from Summertown to Carfax .
12 The people in in , in districts like that , they seem to be perennially voting , forever voting and in the blank year they 're voting for county council elections .
13 Because in the first and second and in the third year we had very good staff who took a pride in the school .
14 ‘ In the first year we were frightened of him , in the second year we got used to him , and in the third year we really liked him . ’
15 In November 1251 Henry III granted to the men of Archenfield in Herefordshire freedom from the Forest jurisdiction , and in the next year he ordered the sheriff :
16 Now then , I 've made , oh er before I go into the capital gains , er capital allowances you can claim a proportion of the capital allowances on a reducing balance , so er if a car for example costs you five thousand pounds , you 'd actually be allowed twenty five percent in the first year , the twenty five percent would be reduced from five thousand , and in the next year you 'd get twenty five percent off your balance until the five thousand pounds had been allowed against your profits .
17 I find them all delightful in the first and second year , something happens between the second year and the fourth year , and in the fourth year they seem to have lost interest in academic things .
18 And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out …
19 By 1815 , a brief postwar upsurge in trade had been and gone and in the same year they went bankrupt .
20 In 1885 John became director of the Comedy Theatre , Manchester , and in the same year he began teaching children to dance .
21 Also during his retirement , in 1838 , Foulston published a volume of his designs , The Public Buildings erected in the West of England , as designed by J. Foulston , and in the same year he became a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects .
22 This marriage , of which there were no children , was dissolved in 1924 and in the same year he married Edith Dora Hodges , singer , daughter of Joseph Hodges , butcher of Tooting ; they had three sons and one daughter .
23 In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society .
24 In 1777 he became a partner of Henry Park [ q.v. ] , who was also a surgeon to the Infirmary , and in the same year he moved to Basnett Street .
25 He was knighted in 1938 for service to the hotel industry , and in the same year he was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour .
26 They were divorced in 1937 and in the same year he married Margaret Cairns White , daughter of a Lancashire textile-warehouse manager of Irish descent .
27 Together with Aymer de Valence , Earl of Pembroke [ q.v. ] ( often his partner in these years ) , he led an expedition to the north in 1315 ; in 1316 he took a major role in the suppression of the Welsh rising of Llywelyn ab Rhys ( Llewelyn Bren ) [ q.v. ] and of the revolt at Bristol ; and in the same year he was among the committee of bishops and magnates appointed to reform the royal household .
28 And in the same year he tried to prevent Guntram 's general , Gundulf , from entering Marseilles .
29 The intrepid lady traveller Celia Fiennes had a near miss when her horse was nearly sucked into a dyke near Ely in 1698 ; and in the same year she took care to avoid Martin Mere in Lancashire , ‘ that as the proverb sayes has parted many a man and his mare indeed ’ .
30 She was divorced in 1934 and in the same year she married the journalist Alaric Jacob , in whose Scenes from a Bourgeois Life ( 1949 ) she appears as ‘ Miranda Ireton ’ .
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