Example sentences of "[num ord] year [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students take their first physiology courses in the second year and a further course in the third year . |
| 2 | The Postgraduate Diploma in Biotechnology may be taken by successfully completing the first year and a literature project . |
| 3 | His previous announcement of a Discovery of a world in the moon ( 1638 ) had already enjoyed two printings in its first year and a third in 1640 . |
| 4 | He said they would spend £2bn on education in their first year and a further £2.6bn in the second . |
| 5 | The scholarships are now in their third year and a number of candidates have successfully completed a variety of courses . |
| 6 | In Timisoara on Dec. 16 , the first anniversary of the uprising in the city which led to Ceausescu 's downfall [ see pp. 37104-05 ] , there was a demonstration by 5,000-8,000 people , including students and workers , at which Fr Laszlo Tokes , the ethnic Hungarian priest whose arrest had sparked off the events of 1989 , called for a " second revolution , not like last year but a peaceful , Christian one " . |
| 7 | The cuts will remove another two per cent from the payroll following layoffs of 1200 last year and a further round which saw 300 jobs go . |
| 8 | Like all Mercantile and General-owned farms , two of which were sold last year and a fourth is also under offer , it had been well-maintained . |
| 9 | ‘ But we are proud of what we have done in the last year and a half . ’ |
| 10 | According to FDR 's Splendid Deception by Hugh Gregory Gallagher : ‘ It seems undeniable that depressive neurosis — a state of reactive depression — was a condition of the last year and a half of his life . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Over the last year and a half prices have tumbled quite dramatically , ’ says Robert Ralphs , the product manager for videotelephony at Mercury . |
| 12 | Anselm was now , for the first time since his election as archbishop in 1093 , free from any cause of dispute with the king , and the last year and a half of his life were spent in the peaceful routine of episcopal duties , disturbed only by the growing problem of the relations of Canterbury with York . |
| 13 | We had Su Friedrich , who 's a lesbian experimental film maker from New York here last year and a whole section of the documentary programme was devoted to her work and it was hugely successful , really stimulating and had a huge audience . ’ |
| 14 | The committee agreed to accept the proposal , recommended by external consultants , last year and a number of private companies , including some from England , have already put in bids for the service . |
| 15 | Can you say how much was taken out of working capital at the er oil services operations last year and a supplementary point assuming that about seventy percent of oil service revenues were international , international last year , er how significant would the North Sea be within that international figure and t to what degree have the budget changes impacted there or will impact there , because we 're already starting to hear some er fairly nasty noises are n't we from ? |
| 16 | he was a development manager , I 've been giving 'em earache for the last year and a half , saying , you are falling behind man . |
| 17 | He won a silver medal for 5,000 metres at the World Junior track championships last year and a couple of months later he took fourth place — again at Junior level — in the World cross country championships in Boston . |
| 18 | But the figures can fluctuate sharply , with a negative balance of 5 per cent reporting an improvement in March last year and a positive balance of 20 per cent again in April . |
| 19 | Losses per share of 3.2p in 1991 were transformed into earnings of 18.3p last year and a final dividend of 6.6p lifts the total from 10p to 10.6p . |
| 20 | It was the only Courtaulds region to lift its profits last year and a hatful of new trading ventures will be launched there this year . |
| 21 | If Barclays application to join the Switch network — started by Midland and Royal Bank of Scotland — is successful the electronic direct debit network will expand by at least 30,000 terminals over the next year and a half . |
| 22 | For the next year and a half , the attainment of the monetarist objectives proved exceptionally difficult . |
| 23 | In the next year and a half Dr Chick expects to apply to America 's Food and Drug Administration for permission to test his device in people . |
| 24 | For this in Edinburgh there is a sort of a forum where er organizations are set themselves round the table and say this is what , the sort of idea that we 're gon na do for the next year and a half |
| 25 | The postponement of the most painful tax increases — intended to raise £6.5 billion extra next year and a further £10.5 billion the year after — is in order not to knock off course the fragile economic recovery . |