Example sentences of "[num ord] year a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deposit first year second year a year later . |
| 2 | In the fourth year a number of topics of current interest are studied in detail , taking the student to the leading edge of current research . |
| 3 | In Osred 's first year a council was held on the banks of the River Nidd , again presided over by Archbishop Beorhtwald , at which both Aelfflaed and Berhtfrith spoke in Wilfrid 's favour ; Wilfrid was not restored to York , of which John of Beverley , bishop of Hexham , became bishop , but he was allowed to retain his former possessions of Ripon and Hexham as bishop of Hexham ( HE V , 19 : Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) . |
| 4 | In the Commons vote in June last year a majority of 123 was against any change , and MPs believed the issue had been settled for this Parliament . |
| 5 | . The erm the gist of it sir is that English Nature er carried out er last year a survey of ponds in this area , though we are not certain that they were able , owing to the exigences er created by the attitudes of certain landowners , er to erm investigate every pond in the area . |
| 6 | A record number of visitors visited the Maastricht European Fine Art Fair this year : 35,400 people , compared to 27,500 last year a rise of 29% . |
| 7 | THIS TIME last year a crew of 50 descended on Caroline and Roger Shapland 's 17th-century Oxfordshire farmhouse , cut down the holly bush at the end of their drive , ripped up their carpets , removed their light switches and took over all but one of their bedrooms . |
| 8 | No walker has yet been hit by a bike on Snowdon but last year a cyclist was killed in Gwynedd by a motorist fiddling with his radio . |
| 9 | Last year a cache of Second World War shells were unearthed on the site of what had previously been a scrap yard . |
| 10 | In April last year a worker was told to take bottles to a handling bay for disposal . |
| 11 | Last year a court blocked government plans to build a road tunnel through the Aspe valley , which would have threatened the bears ' habitat [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 12 | Last year a tombola held in Morrisons supermarket , Darlington , proved very popular . |
| 13 | On June 5 last year a lodger found Mrs Capper dead in bed and phoned the police . |
| 14 | Last year a judge forced Los Angeles to redraw its districts to create a special Latino one , based on areas with an especially high concentration of Spanish surnames . |
| 15 | Last year a resolution on nudist areas was accompanied by an explanatory statement form its proposers which was considered by many hundreds of naturist members of the Trust to be inaccurate and tendentious . |
| 16 | Last year a team at the University of Pittsburgh unveiled a medical artificial intelligence project called Internist , which could beat most doctors at diagnosing internal diseases . |
| 17 | Last year a team from Hereford were the winners and the Castaways raft has been back on the Wye this week practising to make it a double . |
| 18 | Last year a group of 45 Fortune 500 chief executives and university presidents , known as the Business-Higher Education Forum , published a report saying that the country could not ignore the growing isolation of its inner-city minorities . |
| 19 | Last year a commission recommended a limit of one such appeal , together with extra safeguards about the quality of legal representation . |
| 20 | Patten promised last year a paper that would set out Britain 's agenda for the environment to the end of the century . |
| 21 | In the last year a task force under Dr Harold Jaffe at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta , Georgia has found seven cases of |
| 22 | Last year a routine survey revealed that the bridge was in need of significant structural repair . |
| 23 | Last year a bonanza of foreign capital attracted by interest rates of more than 18 p.c. poured $6 billion into Portugal , equivalent to 8 p.c. of gross domestic product , and forced the country to slam on the brakes and restrict foreign purchases of escudo investments . |
| 24 | In April last year a community charge tribunal ruled that the 13 wives were entitled to exemption from the tax because they had ‘ a relevant association with a visiting force ’ as defined by the 1952 Visiting Forces Act . |
| 25 | About 1806 her mother became insane ; next year a relation of her friend Elizabeth Heyrick [ q.v. ] secured her twenty pounds from the Royal Literary Fund . |
| 26 | He had left school willingly , or very nearly , glad to be pleasing Dadda , rewarded with a secondhand motor bike and next year a car , and had learnt Whalbys ' trade . |