Example sentences of "[art] [det] year [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The half year report claims that this adds useful insight to the participation of the various key stakeholders to the distributable cash value generated inside the group .
2 The half year result was a 34 per cent rise over last time , and at the higher end of City estimates .
3 But although the company managed to exceed its targets by the half year stage , it was n't able to maintain such growth levels — turnover for the entire year grew only 10% to $253m .
4 The same year radical students in Berlin , led by Rudi Dutschke , began protests against the Vietnam War and doubts grew about US foreign policy in general , particularly with its absorption in South-East Asia and lack of interest in Europe .
5 In 1018 the English paid the very large sum of £82,500 , and came to an agreement with the Danes at Oxford which may have marked the formal end of hostilities ; the same year part of Cnut 's fleet sailed to Denmark .
6 This led to a certain amount of friction between the Gardener ( Hortulanus ) and the Keeper of the Garden ( Praefectus Horti ) , Isaac Rand , who , in accordance with his office , published in the same year Index Plantarum officinalium quae in Horto Chelseiano .
7 In the same year expenditure on benefits and other costs amounted to £3,104,000 , leaving a net addition to the scheme of £10,322,000 .
8 But the same year cotton prices plummeted on the world market from 68 cents to 34 cents a pound .
9 In 1653 , after the remaining works had been completed by Dutch prisoners of war under Vermuyden 's direction , a service of thanksgiving was held in Ely Cathedral ; and in the same year Vermuyden was employed by his earlier adversary , the lord protector , on diplomatic missions to the Netherlands .
10 In the same year Sir Thomas Roe went as English representative in turn to The Hague , Copenhagen and Königsberg ( where the Elector of Brandenburg then was ) before also helping with the Swedish–Polish negotiations .
11 The same year Egidius of Rheims was tried in council at Metz .
12 The agreements on EFR had been signed in early 1989 and in October of the same year outline permission was given for the building of a £300 million ‘ demonstration ’ reprocessing plant at Dounreay to recycle EFR 's spent plutonium fuel .
13 In the same year infant mortality was 8.2 deaths per 1000 live births , comparable with countries such as Norway and the United Kingdom .
14 Other questions might be , for instance : are absent pupils predominantly from the same year group ?
15 The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one .
16 From the middle of the sixteenth century there had , however , been some confusion in England , mainly because most continental countries had adopted 1 January as the beginning of their year , and had also assumed the same year number .
17 In contrast , in the same year foreign-controlled corporations in the US had revenues of $825bn , but paid only $7bn in US taxes .
18 He says that in a few years gas will become expensive , and coal will be waiting in the wings as a cheap form of energy .
19 Surplus component boards etc. are most useful if they contain expensive semiconductors , and are probably something that are best left to those who have a few years experience of electronics behind them .
20 Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death .
21 One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton .
22 A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here .
23 For a few years funding for memory research became hard to come by .
24 In a few years time the two German states could be virtually a single economic area .
25 It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity .
26 This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time .
27 It 's safe to say that in a few years time they will be playing Las Vegas . ’
28 He might , in a few years time , become one but who knows .
29 ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time .
30 It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit .
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