Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trading conditions which we experienced during the year with no recovery in prospect required a radical look at the costs and overheads structure of the UK activities . |
| 2 | This compares with depreciation on the Dumfries building where production ceased during the year . |
| 3 | In conclusion I would like to thank everyone concerned ; tot he management and the golf courses we visited during the year and wish them every success in the coming season . |
| 4 | Fluctuations occurred throughout the year : the deficit in May was $10,200 million , an increase of 23.6 per cent over April due to an increase in imports of oil and industrial equipment and to the effect on exports of the rise in value of the dollar ; in July and September the deficits fell to a five-year low due to a decline in the purchase of foreign machinery and consumer goods , and to an increase in aircraft exports . |
| 5 | The Council of Mortgage Lenders announced on February 14th that the number of people who lost their homes last year because they could not keep up their mortgage payments nearly tripled from the year before . |
| 6 | This tells us water temperatures were changing and we believe this represents a major almenial event which occurred in the year seventeen forty seven . |
| 7 | In the first edition of this book we described at length the reactions evoked by the Report , its strengths and weaknesses as we saw them , and the developments that occurred in the year or so following the publication of Circular 11/77 . |
| 8 | Only 11 firms , out of the 138 registered with the English Institute that the JMU visited in the year to 30 September 1992 , achieved ‘ yes ’ answers to all 13 questions . |
| 9 | Sales of Hennessy and Hine cognac have also suffered , particularly in Japan where consumption dropped during the year . |
| 10 | The final part of that of John Bartholomew and Son , the geographical publishers , came during the year and has been amalgamated with earlier gifts . |
| 11 | We relied heavily on subscriptions and donations and were delighted by the loyalty and support we received throughout the year . |
| 12 | First , looking at hardware spending plans this year , the review shows cutbacks in the UK , the US , France , Canada and Spain compared with the year before . |
| 13 | The holding of the summit in Madrid came in the year of official Spanish celebration of the 500th anniversary of Colombus 's voyage to America . |
| 14 | Its estimates are based on studies of climate conditions 65,000 years ago , when the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere was similar to that predicted for the year 2000 . |
| 15 | In short , the increase in earnings from tourism happened in the year after the millennium . |
| 16 | The first Rottweiler in Norway arrived in the year 1910 , but it was not until 1919 that a bitch called Florrie , who had been originally imported from Sweden , was registered . |
| 17 | But colleagues , five years ago I looked forward to the merger between G M B and Apex and predicted by the year two thousand there would be only four major unions in Britain , call them the four super unions . |
| 18 | The directors who served during the year were as follows : |
| 19 | The furthest the Realm of Chaos has ever expanded since Sigmar 's time was during the Great War Against Chaos which began in the year 2302 . |
| 20 | The reign of William V began in the year 1990 . |
| 21 | ( Copied from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , A.D. 1808 ) : Sir , According to your request , I send you an account of the facts I have ascertained , respecting a canal I discovered in the year 1803 in the medulla spinalis of the horse , bullock , sheep , hog and dog : and should it appear to you deserving of being laid before the Royal Society , I shall feel myself particularly obliged by having so great an honour conferred upon me . |
| 22 | Hurriedly I glanced at the year of the film 's release . |
| 23 | Always mark your demos clearly with the copyright symbols ( a letter ‘ c ’ in a circle ) followed by the year in which the songs were written and the writers ' names . |
| 24 | This scheme has replaced transitional relief which operated in the year 1990–91 . |
| 25 | And we have a bicycle which he made in the year eighteen seventy , that was before he had started business on his own and he had erm made it for a young solicitor in Galashiels and I believe it was used in a race from Galashiels from Place in Galashiels to the . |
| 26 | He let his house in Chelsea furnished for the year , with the usual proviso that his own staff should remain to run it — he has a housekeeper who has been with him for years , and one daily maid . |
| 27 | The International Atomic Energy Agency reports there are now 72 plants being built including two in Japan on which work started during the year . |
| 28 | Many of the ancient water-clocks were instruments of considerable complexity , particularly as they were designed to indicate hours which varied throughout the year . |
| 29 | The effects of the fluctuation persisted throughout the year and into 1983 , bringing 108 mm of rainfall at Guayaquil in Ecuador in November , compared with a normal figure of 8 mm , and 614 mm ( normally 214 mm ) at the same site in January 1983 , compared with a record of 701 mm in January 1973 , the only higher figure ever recorded there . |
| 30 | As I mentioned a year ago , however , the then current sales of advertising space and forward orders for 1992 were seriously down , a position which persisted throughout the year . |