Example sentences of "[noun pl] the [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer outings the next year were for her a misery . |
| 2 | It would also be evaluated by the staff group , and the information passed on to colleagues who may be taking up similar activities the following year . |
| 3 | He had noticed that the Roberts Building Company got a large share of municipal contracts the following year and had had words with Jacko . |
| 4 | It was not until 1920 that a Third Division of twenty-two southern clubs was formed , with another of twenty-two northern clubs the following year . |
| 5 | From very early times the Jewish year was punctuated by the great festivals — the " feasts of the Lord " . |
| 6 | In the 1991 tax year , the couple 's joint income , including the book royalties , was £743,000 , nearly three times the previous year 's £258,000 . |
| 7 | John told us that he had devoted many hours the previous year in observation of the golden eagles of Arran , recording their every move . |
| 8 | City were runners-up to Huddersfield in the League in 1924 and losing Cup finalists the following year . |
| 9 | The goalkeeper on that fateful day in ‘ 54 was Fred Martin of Aberdeen , a talented but unfortunate keeper who let in another seven goals the following year against England at Wembley . |
| 10 | In other words the five year housing land supply should not be the Structure Plan requirement plus an allowance of 60% . |
| 11 | The magic faded after City 's triumphs the following year in the League Cup and European Cup Winners ' Cup , which perhaps explains his admission : ‘ Sometimes , I have a terrible impatience for the old glory days . ’ |
| 12 | The theory , stated firmly in most gardening manuals , that planting potatoes the first year on neglected land helps to clean it of weeds was erroneous — at least as far as ours was concerned . |
| 13 | Dumenil , which offered predominantly specialist single European market trusts , had dealings in its funds suspended in November 1989 because of pricing errors and administrative problems and was ordered to wind up its trusts the following year . |
| 14 | In spite of frequent attention , the old Paxman main engines on Venturous were breaking down more and more often , until the port engine finally gave up on us during Scottish patrols the following year . |
| 15 | Ciba-Geigy is giving priority to reducing emissions of halogenated organic compounds , which fell to 160 tonnes from 200 tonnes the previous year . |
| 16 | Red Alligator , who was to win the National under more orthodox circumstances the following year , was third and Greek Scholar fourth . |
| 17 | If left they sow themselves , reappearing as uninvited but welcome guests the following year . |
| 18 | In that way , you minimize the risk of making a poor choice and a false start in your first year , with the consequent possibility of having to catch up by taking extra classes or to repeat classes the following year . |
| 19 | In prefiguring insurrections the following year in British Honduras and Trinidad , the Taranto uprising had a profound effect on the development of black nationalism in the British Caribbean . |
| 20 | As part of the life cycle of this pest is spent as eggs on the trunks and limbs of cherry and plum trees , a winter wash of these with tar oil ovicide will reduce the incidence of attacks the following year . |
| 21 | At the Northern Championships the same year she won the doubles and reached the singles final , in which she extended Maud Watson , the reigning Wimbledon champion , to 8–6 7–5 . |
| 22 | My first appearance had been in the Junior Indoor Championships the previous year , when I had been eliminated in the heats . |
| 23 | Wassailing was originally probably a Roman fertility rite to praise and encourage Pomona , the goddess of fruit trees , and it is still carried out in parts of the UK on Twelfth Night to ensure a good crop of apples the following year . |
| 24 | Some of the expenditure er some of the income came from erm the Cheltenham Gold Cup which ra actually realized us the sum of ninety four pounds in comparison with twenty fo twenty four pounds the previous year . |
| 25 | While there may have been isolated instances which appear to confirm this interpretation ( for example , in 1970 the Soviet Union bought up Costa Rica 's excess of coffee , which may well have been a factor contributing to the establishment of diplomatic relations the following year ) , other such instances have been similarly small-scale and the evidence overall is against it . |
| 26 | However , her favourite roles came in two Glenn Miller movies Sun Valley Serenade ( 1941 ) , as the band 's vocalist ( Pat Friday dubbing her singing ‘ I Know Why ’ ) , and as one of the Orchestra Wives the following year . |
| 27 | What we think as , as Frank said erm , our policy is to accrue erm , income , which we think we 'll get in cash terms the following year , ie , we 're not gon na accrue it as soon as B Sky B expenses it , which is one end of the spectrum of erm , imprudence you could say or , and the other end , extreme prudence is to account for nothing until it 's cleared er , in the bank balance . |
| 28 | In September a woman was killed when her vehicle was hit by a train on a level-crossing near Reading and in 1990 , 23 people died and 25 critically injured in 69 level crossing accidents , compared with 14 dead and 33 injured in 60 accidents the previous year . |
| 29 | Sadat and the Shah had become friends the previous year , after first quarrelling at an Islamic summit in Rabat , about the measures needed to protect an Islamic shrines under Israeli occupation . |
| 30 | More recently , Mike McFarlane had won the 60 metres the previous year in Athens . |